Cyber Security Portfolio Manager
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Digital Data and Insights group leads, connects, and strengthens MBIE’s core data and insights, digital and technology capabilities.
The Cyber Security Portfolio Manager is responsible for supporting cyber security assurance across a Portfolio of MBIE Business Groups.
The Cyber Security Portfolio Manager is responsible for:
- Providing security assurance and recommendations about key MBIE systems.
- Overseeing Certification and security assurance activities across a Portfolio of Business Groups at MBIE.
- Effectively leading a team of cyber security professionals to get the best security outcomes.
- Tracking security remediations for key MBIE systems.
- Ensuring that business teams engage with the cyber security team to determine appropriate security measures when planning and implementing new business projects.
- Building and maintaining relationships with Business and System Owners across MBIE.
- Interpreting information security concepts and language into business concepts and language.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- 10+ years in ICT and Cyber Security related roles
- Proven experience with managing Certification and Accreditation processes.
- Demonstrated understanding of cyber security challenges and threats in multi-hosted cloud environments.
- Good knowledge and wide experience across security disciplines with a good understanding of contemporary best practice principles.
- Proven ability to successfully build the trust and engagement of senior leaders through personal advocacy, vision, drive and working collaboratively with colleagues.
- Proven ability to remain up-to-date on key technical changes and opportunities in their specialist area and proactively use this to continuously improve MBIE services.
- Wide ranging knowledge of Ministry’s needs and obligations across regulatory systems, economic and social drivers, and service delivery to business within complex information technology environment.
- Proven experience in successfully leading and embedding change including processes and team culture.
- Extensive and proven leadership experience including engaging and motivating teams and individuals.
- Significant and successful experience in establishing and building strong working relationships; internal, cross-government, ministerial and advisory boards.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain the trust and credibility with senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field or extensive comparable experience.
- In depth knowledge of cyber security and NZISM or ISO 19011.
- Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
- Ability to obtain / maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Credit check required (yes).
- Required to drive (no).
- Police vetting (yes).
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Security Certification and Assurance for Systems in Portfolio
- Ensure quality and consistency in advice and practices in their Cyber Security Portfolio.
- Provide specialist consultancy services to MBIE across current and future systems.
- Define and implement effective risk strategies.
- Contribute to the Security Architecture Framework (SAF) including the creation of ICT security policies, standards, guidelines, strategies, and roadmaps.
- Ensure solutions are optimally aligned with the Ministry’s strategic direction and business needs, and government and industry cyber security standards.
Relationship Management
- Provides leadership to ensure sustainable organisational capability, and achievement of efficiency benefits and ongoing improvements in cost effectiveness.
- Support and enable the delivery of priority business outcomes across MBIE business groups.
- Provide change leadership to ensure MBIE continues to evolve in a way that enables it to respond effectively and efficiently to its changing environment.
- Engage with third-party security companies and vendors.
People Leadership
- Create a sense of vision, engages and motivates people to participate and make things happen.
- Anticipate future capability needs across the team, identify gaps in capability and address these through recruitment, development or other actions.
- Establish clear accountabilities, expectations and performance standard with direct reports and ensure regular performance and development conversations occur.
Self Management
- Models positive values and demonstrates values and culture at MBIE.
- Acts with honesty and integrity.
- Welcomes feedback and is receptive to input from others.
- Monitor and adjust work programmes through the agreed processes to enable Cyber Security to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Manage expenditure and resources in line with approved guidelines, budget, deadlines and reporting requirements, with a focus on driving cost effectiveness for MBIE.
Wellbeing, health and safety
- Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
- Ensures own and others safety at all times.
- Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
- Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
- Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.
Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry
The Cyber Security Portfolio Manager position reports into the Manager Cyber Security Assurance within the Cyber Security branch. The branch sits within the Digital Data and Insights group.
Matatautanga – Competencies (Leadership Success Profile)
The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) is a leadership capability framework, developed by the New Zealand public sector for the New Zealand public sector. It creates a common language for leadership and establishes what great leadership looks like. You can look at the twelve underpinning capabilities and four leadership characters here: Leadership Success Profile | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission(external link)
To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand
Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.
As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.
Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service
Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.
In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.
What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission
