Director of Security (00054)

Title: Director of Security (00054)

State Role Title: Info Technology Specialist IV

Hiring Range: Up to $160,000

Pay Band: 7

Agency: Department of Elections

Location: Department of Elections

Agency Website: www.elections.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Organizational Objective
The Department of Elections promotes and supports accurate, fair, open and secure elections for the citizens of the Commonwealth. ELECT ensures the proper administration of election laws, campaign finance disclosure compliance, and voter registration processes in the state by promulgating rules, regulations, issuing instructions, and providing information to local Electoral Boards and general registrars.

The Department of Elections envisions a highly modern, efficient and professional electoral process that is trustworthy and accountable at all levels and engages Virginia’s diverse citizenry in the most fundamental right in a democratic society: the right to vote.

The Director of Security oversees ELECT’s Security Program to ensure ELECT Systems remain confidential, integrity is maintained, and ELECT systems remain available for all users. Ensures ELECT systems meet federal, Commonwealth of Virginia and agency security standards. The position will work with ELECT development teams, network service providers and security staff of the Commonwealth of Virginia to ensure security requirements are included in SDLC activities. Responsible for ensuring security policies and controls are created, implemented, monitored, and updated, vulnerabilities are tracked and remediation and system security plans are updated to meet changing business, security and technological requirements.

Supervises ELECT’s Information Security Officer, and the Voting Systems Program Manager, and is responsible for the coordination and administration of the Locality Election Security Standards. Develops and maintains a level of knowledge that ensures coverage for each position of the Security division in the event of an absence or vacancy. Work will involve providing oversight of the selection, installation, configuration, testing and implementation of security technology.

Work will also involve supervising the Information Systems Security program to protect electronic information from unauthorized users, intrusions, or other security threats; leading and supervising ELECT's information security team; participating as a security subject matter expert for information technology projects; overseeing the work of the ISO in security investigations and recommendations, access to the Commissioner for reporting requirements, and implementation of corrective actions; ensuring compliance with state and federal security regulations; and ensuring the development and delivery of ELECT's security awareness training program. Actively participating in ELECT’s business continuity, disaster recovery, and election event security planning and implementation.

The successful candidate will provide leadership and foster a high-performing work environment with a commitment to collegiality, teamwork, and collaboration.

Performs related work as required.

Minimum Qualifications

· Leadership and management skills – capable of empowering and leading a team of Information Security. Professionals to meet business and technology security goals, providing direction, monitoring performance, motivating staff, and building a positive working environment.
· Strong customer focus – able to meet the demands of internal and external customers.
· Flexible and adaptable – capable of changing direction where required and showing flexibility to meet new demands and of adapting to a fast-moving technology landscape.
· Experience forming business partnerships that help drive the information security strategy forward.
· Ability to communicate to senior executives and elected officials both orally and in written correspondence.
· Knowledge of current and emerging information technologies and security tools used to perform information security functions.
· Demonstrated ability to provide strategic information technology (IT) advice to executive stakeholders and be able to provide leadership and guidance in the delivery of multiple complex projects.
· Experience in strategic/long term thinking.

· Knowledge in the following:
o Information Security Programs
o Computers, applications, and electronics
o Security Frameworks and threat environments
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