Assurance and Compliance Advisor

**Assurance and Compliance Advisor, Ongoing opportunity with flexible office locations + hybrid working options**

The Department of Customer Service is looking for an Assurance and Compliance Advisor to join our growing team

**Benefits**
- Fantastic ongoing clerk grade 7/8 Opportunity.
- Salary range: $110,266 - $122,058plus superannuation, commensurate with experience.
- Genuinely flexible working arrangements.
- Work from your home office as well as from our state-of-the-art offices in Sydney or Regional NSW
- Excellent career development and learning development opportunities.

**About Us**

DCS is transforming the way NSW Government agencies interact with customers. We are passionate about putting the customer at the centre of everything we do and adopting new technologies to make government work better.

DCS is a service provider and regulator, focusing on delivering first-class customer service, digital transformation and regulatory reform to create better outcomes for the people of NSW.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in an exciting role with our broader Cyber Security Office. This role will have a direct impact in assisting in the management and development of the Security Compliance and Assurance requirements for DCS and GovConnect agencies and will ensure the compliance and policy requirements are managed appropriately.

**Your responsibilities will include**
- Assist in managing compliance with and report on NSW Cyber Security Policy across DCS.
- Support the implementation and maintenance of an Information Security Management System based on ISO27001 across DCS.
- Maintain Crown Jewels register.
- Support assurance activities in line with the assurance plan to identify security gaps and recommend corrective actions.

You will also manage administration of various compliance activities for DCS, including recurring ISMS maintenance tasks such as:

- reviewing the ISMS statement of applicability,
- reviewing the policy exceptions,
- reviewing regulatory compliance requirements,
- supporting various audits across DCS.

**Key Challenges**:

- Assisting in Influencing and managing diverse stakeholders, including executives to ensure a positive security risk culture.
- Interpreting and aligning internal and external requirements, including industry standards, auditors, regulatory bodies, executives, legislative/administrative instruments, and business function requirements.

**About you**
- Passion to develop new and enhance existing Compliance and Assurance frameworks and ensure the associated activities are delivered.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing and/or maintaining an Information Security Management System based on ISO27001.
- Experience and sound understanding of ICT Security Governance and Compliance activities, including the implementation and/or maintenance of an ISMS.
- Collaborative professional comfortable working with technical teams to formulate control statements and verify controls compliance.
- Background working in ICT Governance and Compliance or assurance role.
- Strong understanding of the regulatory requirements for Governance and Compliance activities that DCS is responsible for.

If you want to be part of this forward thinking, innovative team that thrive in challenging the status quo, we would love to hear from you

**What we need from you**

To start your journey towards becoming Assurance & Compliance Advisor, please click on the link below and attach your resume (max 5 pages) and cover letter (max 2 pages).

Salary Grade 7/8, with the base salary for this role starting at $110266 base plus superannuation

**Closing Date: 10am Wednesday 30th April**

**Careers at Department of Customer Service**
A career at the Department of Customer Service (DCS) gives you the opportunity to help improve government services and be part of reform that benefits people across NSW. We are focused on delivering excellent customer service, digital transformation, and regulatory reform. Come join us and influence the future of our great state.

**Belong in our diverse and inclusive workplace**

The strength of our workforce lies in its diversity and embracing difference, while the key to our success is leveraging the contributions of employees with different backgrounds and perspectives.

You can view our full diversity and inclusion statement here.

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