Lead Advisor, Information Security Compliance

4 days ago


Vancouver, Canada UBC Full time

Staff - Non Union

Job Category
M&P - AAPS

Job Profile
AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level D

Job Title
Lead Advisor, Information Security Compliance

Department
Information Security Compliance Support | Safety & Risk Services | VP Finance and Operations

Compensation Range
$8,063.17 - $12,575.08 CAD Monthly

The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date
July 7, 2024

**Note**: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

Mar 31, 2026

Job Summary

The Lead Advisor, Information Security Compliance (the Advisor) will be instrumental in rolling out the University's Information Security Compliance Support Program, within UBC's wider Privacy & Information Security Management (PrISM) program. UBC's PrISM Program is an ongoing initiative to reduce the risk of a major privacy or information security breach at UBC through security governance, technology advancement, training, awareness and communications, risk management and compliance support, system identification and classification. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic, risk focused team that collaborates across UBC including with management and staff in other units, such as the Cybersecurity team, University Counsel, Enterprise Risk and Assurance, the Office of the CIO and UBC IT teams.

Organizational Status

This position is part of the PrISM - Safety & Risk Services team and reports to the Compliance Support Manager. Work on this program will be guided by the PrISM leadership, in close consultation with Cybersecurity, IT, Data Governance and Risk Management teams. It will also involve working closely with other IT functions and data stewards within UBC's faculties and operational entities.

Work Performed

Leads the compliance framework attestation process directly with a portfolio of units, advising them through assessment activities towards the identification of compliance gaps and ensuring reasonable efforts are made in order to close those gaps by having security measures in place to protect UBC electronic information and systems.

Responsible for designing and proposing solutions for existing complex or campus-wide compliance issues identified through the compliance attestation process.

Provides expert advice and contribution to on-going strategic planning for units to move towards full compliance with UBC's Information Security Policy and standards.

Leads the development of methodologies for improving procedures and track and report their portfolio of units' progress in the implementation of information security and privacy solutions.

Manages the development of technologies(questionnaires, reporting dashboards, linkages from response to entity and compliance requirement model in Service-Now Governance Risk and Compliance or a similar product).

Provide information security technical expertise and mentoring to operational IT teams and leadership to ensure reasonable information security measures are in place to support the ongoing information security management of the unit.

Conduct root cause and trend analysis on information security compliance information (qualitative and quantitative).

Develop relevant content to inform PrISM SRS clients and advisors on the UBC's compliance framework and the acceptable use of UBC tools.

Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the University's technical and business environment in order to better understand the business and their priorities.

Build and maintain strong and productive working relationships with team members, stakeholders, UBC IT, and other vendors / consultants.

Maintain appropriate professional designations and up-to-date knowledge of current information security frameworks such as ISO 27000 series and NIST Cybersecurity Framework, methods, techniques and tools.

Consequences of Error/Judgement

UBC is a complex organization that collects and uses information to support its mandate. An information breach (especially relating to personal or other high-risk information) could have a significant financial and reputational impact on the University. The Lead Information Security Compliance Advisor plays a critical role in the identification of key privacy and information security compliance gaps, and providing appropriate recommendations to their portfolio of units of security solutions and technology to be implemented in order to close those gaps.

Sound judgment must be exercised. Lack of good judgment and/or inability to adopt sound risk management techniques may result in the failure to detect significant privacy and sec



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