Manager: IT Risks

2 weeks ago

Bellville, South Africa University of the Western Cape Full time

Post Number- 8026354- Faculty/Department- University of the Western Cape -> ICS Department -> Strategy & Planning- Type of Position- Permanent - Full Time- Length of Contract Period- Location- Main Campus - Bellville, WC ZA (Primary)- Closing Date- 12/3/2024**Role Clarification & Key Performance Areas**

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) seeks to appoint an experienced Information & Technology Risk Manager in its Information and Communication Services (ICS) Department.

The University has set itself exciting and challenging goals in its Institutional Operating Plan (IOP), which rely heavily on ICT's to deliver integrated solutions that enable and support its Academic and Research programs, and its Administrative and Professional Services departments.

This permanent position, will report to the Deputy Director: ICT GRC and will play a pivotal role in maturing the University's IT Risk Management functional domain and capabilities in the areas of: IT Risk Identification; IT Risk Assessment; IT Risk Response & Mitigation; IT Risk and Control Monitoring & Reporting.

This is a demanding but very stimulating role, which requires an experienced individual with the appropriate breadth and depth of business and technical skills and competencies.

We invite you to join our team in a very exciting time in the University's history.

**Key Performance Areas**:
**IT Risk Identification**
- Identify and classify potential threats and vulnerabilities to the University's people, information, processes and technology to enable IT risk analysis,
- Develop a comprehensive set of IT risk scenarios, and identify accountable stakeholders, based on available information to determine the potential impact to business objectives and operations,
- Maintain the IT risk register to help ensure that identified IT risk scenarios are accounted for and incorporated into the institutional risk profile,
- Identify risk appetite and tolerance defined by senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives,

**IT Risk Assessment**
- Analyse risk scenarios based on institutional criteria (e.g. business processes, technology etc.) to determine the likelihood and impact of an identified risk,
- Identify the current state of existing controls and evaluate their effectiveness for IT risk mitigation,
- Review the results of risk and control analysis to assess any gaps between current and desired states of the IT risk environment,
- Ensure that risk ownership is assigned at the appropriate level to establish clear lines of accountability,
- Communicate the results of risk assessments to senior management and appropriate stakeholders to enable risk-based decision making.

**IT Risk Response & Mitigation**
- Consult with risk owners to select and align recommended risk responses with business objectives and enable informed risk decisions.
- Assist risk owners, where needed, with the development of risk action plans
- Consult on the design and implementation or adjustment of mitigating controls to ensure that the risk is managed to an acceptable level.
- Maintain the IT Risk and Control Matrix.
- Assist control owners in developing control procedures and documentation to enable efficient and effective control execution.
- Validate that risk responses have been executed according to the risk action - plans.
- Collaborate in the development of a risk awareness program to promote a risk aware culture and facilitate risk training.

**IT Risk and Control Monitoring & Reporting**
- Define and establish key risk indicators (KRls) and thresholds based on available data, to enable monitoring of changes in risk.
- Monitor and analyse key risk indicators (KRls) to identify changes or trends in the IT risk profile.
- Facilitate the identification and monitoring of metrics and key performance indicators (KPls) to enable the measurement of risk control performance across relevant IT domains (e.g. data management; SDLC; project & program management; IT service continuity & disaster recovery; IT operations management).
- Report on the performance of, changes to, or trends in the overall IT risk profile and control environment to management and relevant stakeholders to enable decision making.

**IT audit Co-ordinate engagements**

**Minimum Requirements**

**Minimum Requirements: Qualification, Skills and Experience**- A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, or an equivalent NQF-7 accredited qualification,
- An accredited, internationally recognised IT Risk Management certification,
- IT Service Management experience - incident and problem management,
- 3 - 5 Years' experience in an enterprise IT environment,
- A minimum of 3 years' relevant IT Risk Management and/or IT audit experience in an enterprise environment,
- Proficiency in legal, regulatory, standards, governance and other compliance requirements pertaining to IT Risk Management and a higher education environment (e.g. COBIT, ISO2700x, ISO31000, COSO, NIST, CIS, POPIA,

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