[Hiring] Information Security Advisory Specialist @World Food Programme

Role Description

The incumbent will conduct consulting activities to the business, including, but not limited to:

• Authorization to Operate and security compliance
• Application security
• Network security
• Security architecture
• Third Party Risk Management
• Securing beneficiary management systems
• Azure and Active Directory security
• Identity and access management

Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and manage the Authorization to Operate (ATO) process for IT systems, ensuring that all security controls are effectively implemented and maintained to meet organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Design and oversee the security architecture for new and existing applications, ensuring robust protection measures are in place to safeguard sensitive data and maintain compliance with organizational policies and industry standards.
• Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of cybersecurity procedures and services, aimed at protecting IT systems and sensitive data.
• Produce proposals around technologies to improve the cybersecurity posture of the organization, with sound research to ensure these produce value.
• Propose and maintain new security standards, procedures and guidelines to help raise the current security maturity level of the organization.
• Provide expert support and advisory services to Country Offices and Regional Bureaus to address cybersecurity challenges and maintain compliance with organizational security standards.
• Provide cybersecurity advisory services for AI solutions, including assessing AI-specific threats, data protection risks, access controls, model and supply-chain security and compliance with organizational security requirements.
• Conduct third-party risk assessments, ensuring cybersecurity compliance and effective risk management.
• Provide guidance to IT solution owners across the organization to properly design the needed measures to ensure the cybersecurity of the solution and protect data as appropriate for their classification by following SDLC and enterprise architecture.
• Consistently find opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery wherever possible.
• Maintain a record of decisions taken and assessments performed, in cooperation with other members of the Advisory team.
• Identify and execute improvements to existing processes, through solutions to address recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation.
• Become Subject Matter Expert (SME) on platforms and applications for which consultant is assigned to review.
• Produce high quality reports.
• Provide leadership and advice to more junior colleagues.
• Manage cybersecurity related projects.
• Additional duties as requested.

Deliverables at the End of the Contract

• Comprehensive reports detailing the risk assessments conducted for IT systems, including identified risks, mitigation measures, and residual risks.
• Complete documentation for the Authorization to Operate (ATO) process, including security controls, compliance status, and any necessary remediation actions.
• Detailed design documents for the security architecture of new and existing applications, ensuring robust protection measures are in place.
• Well-researched proposals for technologies and strategies to improve the organization's cybersecurity posture.
• Updated security standards, procedures, and guidelines to raise the corporate security maturity level, including baseline and hardening reviews.
• Repeatable, high-level methodologies to set expectations to the business of what cybersecurity requirements must be addressed related to software development.
• High-quality reports on cybersecurity challenges, solutions, and advisory services provided to Country Offices and Regional Bureaus, including records of decisions taken and assessments performed.

Qualifications

• Education: Degree in the field of Computer Science/Engineering or related STEM disciplines or equivalent working experience.
• Experience: At least 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge & Skills:
  • Solid IT Security skills, with both academic background and professional experience.
  • Solid IT SDLC expertise.
  • Solid network experience.
  • Understanding of IT architecture and design concepts.
  • Managed stakeholder relationships, aligning cybersecurity risk strategies with business objectives.
  • Understand cybersecurity risk concepts to assess threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.
  • Good project management skills.
  • Experience in multinational organizations.
  • Desirable: IT Security and IT Audit certifications.
  • Desirable: Security architecture in the cloud.
  • Desirable: experience in ISO, NIST, HIPAA or PCI compliance process.
• Languages: Fluency in oral and written English is mandatory with an intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) is desirable.

Benefits

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

Company Description

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of extreme weather shocks.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.