Sr. Cybersecurity Management Consultant - Policy and Strategy at ANSER in Alexandria, Virginia

Job Description:

Company Overview:

ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.

Position Overview:

ANSER is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Management Consultant to support a federal program in cybersecurity planning, analysis, development, and promulgation of cybersecurity strategies. In this role you will support various components of the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Office (CIO) including policy and strategy development, implementation, integration, cyber hygiene, workforce planning and strategy, international cybersecurity programs, and risk management oversight.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Assist in cybersecurity planning, analysis, development, and promulgation of cybersecurity strategies.
• Support processes to monitoring and assess implementation according to DoD CIO priorities, goals, objectives, and milestones.
• Provide expertise to inform leadership in making strategic and management decisions.
• Support the development of agreements, directives, instructions, guidance and information papers.

• Establish and satisfy complex enterprise-wide cybersecurity requirements based upon the analysis of user, policy, regulatory, and resource demands.
• Assist in tracking the DoD Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) Program policy development.
• Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of strategy, doctrine, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Provide cybersecurity expertise during policy, initiative, manual, and instruction development to identify vulnerabilities and enhance security engineering and cyber defense across DoD networks and capabilities.
• Advise and assist during collaborations with various agencies during coordinated policy development and international CS/DCO engagements.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise to research evolving CS management methodologies.
• Support ongoing and future enhancements of a seamless integrated enterprise-wide decision structure for cybersecurity risk management (RMF) that aligns to guidance and policy.
• Create and maintain capability deployment concept of operations and strategy document outlining capabilities, gaps, deployment timelines, roadmaps, and measures of effectiveness and performance.
• Provide support to the DCIO-CS for the development and promulgation of cybersecurity requirements for cloud capabilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity related field, Program Management or other similarly related field.
  • Will consider Bachelor's degree with an additional four (4) years relevant and practical experience for a total of 16 year's experience.
• Twelve (12) or more years progressive relevant experience providing government or defense agencies decision support, analysis, technical program support related to cybersecurity and/or systems engineering and supporting cybersecurity, technology programs.
• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of cybersecurity standards and policies.
• Knowledge of Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition programs, systems and infrastructure.
• Previous experience presenting or briefing high level stakeholders, military officials and policy makers.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act (ADA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with ANSER, please call 703-416-2000 or e-mail Recruiting@anser.org

ANSER is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience who have a desire to do meaningful work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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