Associate Cio For Cybersecurity

Join the Senior Executive Service (SES) as an Assistant Chief Information Officer (ACIO) for Cybersecurity. This critical leadership role requires an executive to direct enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategy, operations, and governance within a large, federated environment. You will be responsible for driving innovation, ensuring compliance with federal mandates, managing cybersecurity risk, and representing the Department on key cybersecurity issues, while fostering a high-performance, high-accountability culture.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Provide executive leadership in developing and executing an enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategy, aligning it with mission objectives and balancing compliance with innovation.
• Design and lead robust governance structures that establish accountability, ensure federal mandate compliance, and manage cybersecurity risk across the enterprise.
• Oversee and manage comprehensive enterprise-wide cybersecurity operations, including resource allocation, contract management, staff supervision, incident response, monitoring, and strengthening enterprise resilience.
• Represent the Department externally on cybersecurity issues, drive innovation, adopt emerging technologies, and lead organizational transformation to enhance cybersecurity maturity.
• Direct organizational units, manage specific programs or projects, monitor progress toward organizational goals, supervise employees (at least 25% of the time), and exercise important policy-making or executive functions.
• *Required Qualifications:**
• *Experience:**
• Managerial experience typically at or above the GS-15 federal grade level or equivalent in the public or private sector.
• Proven ability to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most Senior Executive Service (SES) positions.
• *Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs):**
• **Commitment to Rule of Law:** Demonstrated knowledge of the American system of government, commitment to uphold the Constitution, and serve the American people.
• **Driving Efficiency:** Proven ability to strategically and efficiently manage resources, budget effectively, cut wasteful spending, and pursue efficiency through process and technological upgrades.
• **Merit and Competence:** Demonstrated knowledge, ability, and technical competence to consistently produce exceptional quality work, showing problem-solving skills, agility, and resilience.
• **Leading People:** Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams toward organizational vision, mission, and goals, driving a high-performance, high-accountability culture, including leading change and holding individuals accountable.
• **Achieving Results:** Demonstrated ability to achieve both individual and organizational results, aligning outcomes with stated goals, exhibiting an operational mindset, innovation, and strategic thinking.
• *Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs):**
• Executive leadership in developing and executing enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategy, aligning cybersecurity with mission objectives, and influencing outcomes across a large, federated enterprise comparable to the U.S. Treasury.
• Executive-level experience in designing and leading governance structures that establish accountability, ensure compliance with federal mandates, and manage cybersecurity risk across an enterprise, demonstrating measurable governance impact.
• Demonstrated experience in overseeing and managing enterprise-wide cybersecurity operations, including responsibility for resources, contracts, and staff, with measurable success in incident response, monitoring, compliance, and strengthening enterprise resilience.
• Demonstrated ability and experience in representing the Department externally on cybersecurity issues, driving innovation, and leading organizational transformation, engaging with stakeholders and adopting emerging technologies to improve enterprise cybersecurity maturity.
• *Application Requirements:**

Your resume must be limited to **two pages** and clearly demonstrate how you meet all qualifications, including both Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs). Do not submit separate documents for ECQs or MTQs. Include complete employment history with start/end dates (MM/YYYY), employer name, position title, grade level (if applicable), hours worked per week, and a detailed description of duties performed. If you are a current career SES, eligible for reinstatement, or SES CDP certified, your resume must clearly state this, including the year of certification.