Cyber Awareness Advisor

CSIRO; Darwin; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

CSIRO is seeking a Cyber Awareness Advisor to strengthen the organisation’s cyber security culture by delivering awareness, capability uplift and behaviour change initiatives. You will translate complex cyber risks and policies into clear guidance for researchers, leaders and staff, contributing to strategic planning and hands-on delivery of awareness programs.

You will develop and maintain a risk-aligned awareness roadmap, plan campaigns, workshops, intranet content and practical job aids to

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering cyber security awareness initiatives.
• Strong ability to translate cyber risks into clear guidance for varied audiences.
• Proven stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Experience applying learning and behaviour change principles.
• Familiarity with risk management and learning frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and improvement of CSIRO’s cyber awareness and behaviour change function.
• Develop a risk-aligned awareness roadmap and deliver activities.
• Plan and deliver awareness, education and engagement activities.

Skills

Cyber awareness

Education design

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Communication skills

Project coordination

Policy guidance

Education

Relevant degree in cyber/education/communications

Job description

Acknowledgement of Country

CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation .

Role highlights

• Shape cyber culture across one of Australia’s leading research organisations
• Turn cyber risks into practical actions that make a real impact
• Lead awareness initiatives that build cyber confidence and resilience

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

Visit CSIRO.au for more information.

The opportunity

As a Cyber Awareness Advisor, you will play a key role in strengthening CSIRO’s cyber security culture by developing and delivering cyber awareness, capability uplift and behaviour change initiatives. Working across a diverse research organisation, you will translate complex cyber security risks, policies and services into clear, practical guidance that helps staff and leaders adopt secure everyday practices.

You will contribute to both the strategic planning and hands‑on delivery of awareness programs, driving engagement, building cyber confidence and supporting lasting behavioural change across the organisation.

High-level duties include:

• Contribute to the development and improvement of CSIRO’s cyber awareness, capability uplift and behaviour change function.
• Develop and maintain a risk-aligned awareness roadmap, proposing initiatives for cyber leadership endorsement and delivering agreed activities.
• Plan and deliver awareness, education and engagement activities, including role-based guidance, campaigns, workshops, intranet content and practical job aids.
• Translate cyber risks, policies and services into clear guidance for researchers, leaders, corporate teams, technical users and other priority groups.
• Apply learning, communication and behaviour change principles to support cyber-safe behaviours and improve engagement with cyber security.
• Use data, feedback, incident themes and stakeholder insights to identify awareness gaps and improve activities.

Role particulars

Location and office arrangements: Sydney (Lindfield), Melbourne (Clayton), Canberra (Black Mountain), Perth (Kensington), Brisbane (St Lucia)

Salary: AU$100,103 – AU$113,251 per annum (pro rata for part-time), plus 15.4% superannuation

Tenure & work schedule: Indefinite

Reference: 101633

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential Criteria

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent relevant work experience in cyber security, education, learning design, communications, organisational change, behavioural science, information technology, risk, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing, coordinating or delivering cyber security awareness, education, training, behaviour change, digital safety or capability uplift initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively where structure or maturity is developing, including exercising initiative, prioritising work and delivering quality outcomes with some direction.
• Ability to identify improvement opportunities, develop recommendations for endorsement and translate agreed direction into delivery.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including translating cyber concepts, risks and policies into clear guidance for varied audiences.
• Demonstrated stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including building trusted relationships and improving engagement with cyber security.
• Understanding of common cyber risks and safe behaviours, including phishing, identity, information protection, secure collaboration and incident reporting.
• Experience using metrics, feedback or engagement data to evaluate and improve awareness, training, communication or change activities.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, ISM, PSPF, Essential Eight, adult learning or organisational change.

Desirable

• Experience in research, higher education, government, regulated, scientific, technology or distributed organisations.
• Experience developing role-based learning, cyber awareness campaigns, phishing simulation support, tabletop materials, intranet guidance, leader toolkits or communities of practice.
• Experience applying behaviour change, human risk, change management, marketing or communication principles to improve adoption of desired behaviours.

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the Position Description.

Not sure if you meet all the criteria?
While it is CSIRO policy that the successful candidate must meet all the essential criteria, there are many ways to demonstrate this. Don’t let the list discourage you. If you are unsure about applying, please reach out to the contact person in the Position Description.

Setting you up for success

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Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO , offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO .

Inclusion and belonging

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong. We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Gold Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

Eligibility

This is a security assessed position, applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens with the successful candidate being required to be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the Negative Vetting 1 level.Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Child safety

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy .

Applications close

Sunday 4th of October 11pm AEDT