Director- Cybersecurity Programs (Research)

Georgia Tech; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Tech is seeking a Senior IT Security Program Manager to lead a team of project managers delivering multiple cybersecurity projects within the Office of Research Operations. The role interfaces with OIT leadership, campus partners and cross-functional teams to mature cybersecurity programs and align them with business solutions.

The position focuses on program governance, dashboards, metrics, and stakeholder communications, with oversight of multiple teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Seven to nine years of job-related experience.
• PMO; Scrum Certification; CISSP; CISM; CISA preferred qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in cybersecurity programs for a team of project managers delivering multiple IT security projects, including large/complex ones.
• Drive on-time, on-scope delivery of IT security solutions with university stakeholders.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and produce professional security communications.
• Define program scope, goals, deliverables; maintain the program roadmap with clear outcomes.
• Oversee dashboards, scorecards, and metrics; provide status updates to senior partners.
• Produce cybersecurity program dashboards and metrics for progress and execution updates.
• Organize workstreams integrating cybersecurity with business units; act as liaison.
• Ensure effective teamwork across multiple teams and vendors.
• Communicate program status and escalate issues clearly to stakeholders.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Agile/Scrum

JIRA

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field

Job description

Job Details

Job ID: 302029

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Contract: Full-Time, Regular

About Us

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do.

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Office of Research Operations, a sub team within the Office of the Associate Vice President for Research Operations and Infrastructure, provides strategic and practical support to Georgia Tech's research community.

Job Summary

Provides leadership to team of project, program, and compliance managers to deliver multiple IT security projects, including some large and complex projects, and ensures continuous maturity of cybersecurity programs to address the ever-changing risk landscape. Also organizes workstream for integrating InfoSec projects with business unit solutions, and serves as liaison between Cybersecurity and business. Responsible for setting employee and group goals, deciding on organizational structure to meet the goals, assessing employee and group performance and providing feedback, and making pay recommendations. This position will interact on a regular basis with Institute-wide executive leadership, OIT senior leadership, project managers, campus partners and stakeholders, cross-functional teams. This position typically will advise and counsel Institute-wide executive leadership, OIT senior leadership, project managers, campus partner and stakeholders, cross-functional teams. This position will supervise Assigned staff.

Responsibilities

• Job Duty 1 - Provide continuous leadership in maturity of cybersecurity programs to a team of project managers to deliver multiple IT security projects, including large and complex projects.
• Job Duty 2 - Drives execution for on-time, on-scope delivery of IT security solutions, releasing new features/capabilities, fixing bugs, and eliminating technical debts, in partnership with university stakeholders.
• Job Duty 3 - Manages expectations with stakeholders and prepares professional communications around relevant information security topics.
• Job Duty 4 - Facilitates the definition of program/project scope, goals, and deliverables, maintains the program roadmap with clearly defined & attainable desired outcomes and value statements.
• Job Duty 5 - Oversees the InfoSec program and project-level dashboards, scorecards, reporting, and metrics. Monitor progress & performance and provide ongoing written and verbal release status updates to senior business partners and project team members updated on information security program execution.
• Job Duty 6 - Produces Cybersecurity program and project level dashboards, scorecards, reporting and metrics to monitor progress & performance, and provide on-going written and verbal release status updates to senior, business partners and project team members updated on information security program execution.
• Job Duty 7 - Organizes workstream for integrating cybersecurity project with business unit solution, and serves as liaison between Cybersecurity and business.
• Job Duty 8 - Ensure effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple teams and vendors.
• Job Duty 9 - Communicates program status and escalates issues to key stakeholders, and clearly communicates basic information involving issues of cybersecurity security initiatives in simple to understand terms.
• Job Duty 10 - Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Experience

Seven to nine years of job-related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Office (PMO); Scrum Certification; Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); Certified Information Security Manager (CISM); Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Preferred Educational Qualifications

• Master's degree.

Preferred Experience

• Ten or more years of progressive project management experience.

Preferred Qualifications (continued)

• Background and experience in academia, research, and research computing.
• Familiarity with research security program elements and requirements.
• Experience in the development of role-based policies, procedures, and guidelines in support of compliance programs.
• Familiarity with federal and industry research contracting processes and requirements, including proposals, terms and conditions review, and regulatory requirements.
• Familiarity with research administrative systems and data.
• Demonstrated experience engaging and managing complex cybersecurity projects and programs with multiple stakeholders across diverse research, contractual, and regulatory requirements, including human subjects, export control, intellectual property, and fundamental research.
• Demonstrated experience implementing federal cybersecurity requirements according to NIST frameworks, specifically NIST 800-171.
• Experience implementing and managing DFARS or Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance and assessments for federal contracts or grants.

Proposed Salary

Depending on experience, this position will pay between $110,000-$148,000. All GT employees are bound to the GT/USG compensation policies.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

ABILITIES

• Strong ability to manage and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse population, perform and effectively, make important decisions under pressure, communicate complex technical subjects to non-technical audiences, and effectively manage/direct team.

KNOWLEDGE

• Strong technical knowledge of program management principles, process methodologies, strong knowledge of system development lifecycle specifically Agile/Scrum; strong working knowledge of identity and access management, strong understanding of finances, budgeting, and cost controls on IT projects; IT infrastructure in an enterprise setting.

SKILLS

• Advanced skills in written and verbal communication, analytical thinking, project management tools (JIRA), creating statements of work, customer service, organization, problem-solving, and strong attention to detail; proficiency with Microsoft Office products.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

• This is not a supervisory position.
• This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
• This position will not be required to drive.
• This role is not considered a position of trust.
• This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
• This position will not travel
• This position does not require security clearance.

Background Check

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest/