GRC Specialist: IT & OT Risk & Compliance

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Federal leave programs

State leave programs

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC seeks a Governance, Risk & Compliance Specialist to build and mature a cybersecurity governance program across IT, cloud, and OT. The role partners with security, engineering, legal, procurement, and business stakeholders on risk and compliance initiatives.

The 6-month contract offers hybrid work in Houston or remote options in Chicago, with strong extension and potential conversion. 3+ years in GRC and regulatory standards knowledge are required.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in GRC, cybersecurity compliance, IT audit, information security, or related disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS Controls.
• Experience supporting audits, evidence collection, control testing, remediation tracking, and compliance reporting.
• Ability to develop and maintain security policies, standards, procedures, and control documentation.
• Experience conducting risk assessments, gap assessments, and control reviews.
• Familiarity with third-party and vendor risk management processes.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain the organization's governance, risk, and compliance program across IT, cloud, and OT environments.
• Develop, review, and maintain security policies, standards, procedures, and control documentation.
• Coordinate audit evidence collection for internal audits, external audits, compliance reviews, and customer assessments.
• Track audit findings, remediation plans, control deficiencies, policy exceptions, and risk acceptance activities.
• Perform control testing and compliance validation to ensure security controls are operating effectively.
• Assist with risk assessments, gap assessments, compliance readiness activities, and control maturity reviews.
• Support vendor and third-party risk management activities, including security questionnaires and risk reviews.
• Collaborate with IT, Security Operations, Infrastructure, Engineering, Legal, Procurement, Compliance, and Operations teams.
• Map security controls to frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CIS Controls.
• Maintain risk registers, compliance calendars, control inventories, and audit repositories.
• Prepare compliance reports, dashboards, scorecards, and presentations for leadership.
• Monitor remediation efforts and work with control owners to ensure timely issue resolution.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the information security governance program.
• Stay informed on cybersecurity regulations, compliance trends, and industry best practices.

Skills

GRC experience

NIST CSF knowledge

Audit support

Policy development

Vendor risk management

Documentation

Tools

ServiceNow GRC

Archer

OneTrust

AuditBoard

LogicGate

Drata

Vanta

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC seeks a Governance, Risk & Compliance Specialist to build and mature a cybersecurity governance program across IT, cloud, and OT. The role partners with security, engineering, legal, procurement, and business stakeholders on risk and compliance initiatives.

The 6-month contract offers hybrid work in Houston or remote options in Chicago, with strong extension and potential conversion. 3+ years in GRC and regulatory standards knowledge are required.