Cyber Security Officer

3 days ago


Canberra, Australia Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Full time

APS Level 6
- Canberra, ACT
- $101,833 - $111,979

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**
Reporting to the Director of Cyber Governance and Education, the Cyber Security Officer is responsible for a range of cyber-related tasks including supporting the departmental IT Security Advisor. This includes managing cyber incidents and queries; providing written and verbal cybersecurity advice to staff, the executive and client agencies; assisting with projects such as our phishing campaign and cyber uplift; and drafting of briefs, risk assessments and security policies.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the APS Level 6 may include:

- Providing IT security advice to the department, including risk assessments, briefs, and advice on compliance with the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and Information Security Manual (ISM).
- Assisting in maintaining relevant documentation, such as policies, standards, guidelines, and standard operating procedures, ensuring they comply with PSPF and ISM.
- Support the cyber safety education program for the department and client agencies.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 500 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.


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