Cyber Strategy and Engagement Advisor

| Within the Cybersecurity Unit and by engaging regularly with all colleagues, maintain current knowledge of each Section's mandate, strategy, responsibilities, current tasks and activities, plans, risks, challenges, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Maintain awareness of global and regional trends in cybersecurity relevant to NEOM. Help Unit staff identify knowledge gaps and organizational impediments and assist them in identifying ways to fill these gaps and remove these impediments. Based on the above and innovative thinking, co-develop the Cybersecurity Unit's strategy through exchanges, workshops, written materials, and presentations. Liaise with stakeholders within Tonomus and NEOM to ensure consistent alignment throughout the strategy development. Develop pragmatic and creative solutions to reduce risk. Identify issues and threats with potential impact to the strategic objectives. Through consultation with Section Heads, develop a cybersecurity communication and engagement plan for review by the Head of Strategy and approval by the Director. Identify and connect with key people within Tonomus, the wider NEOM ecosystem, and globally to establish a network of experts and influencers on behalf of the Unit. Share these contacts with other relevant Unit staff to ensure they can use this network to help achieve the Unit's vision and tasks, supporting them in their engagement and communications. Implement your part of the communication and engagement plan by actively pursuing existing engagement opportunities and creating new ones. Within the scope of the communication and engagement plan, take up communication and engagement tasks from colleagues within the Unit and establish a channel through which they can engage more quickly and with greater precision the right stakeholders. Acting as a key spokesperson for the Unit, help promote its mission, strategy, objectives, tasks, activities, approaches, and capabilities, and help identify and correct misinformation. Represent the Unit in a wide range of local, regional, and international events and speaking engagements. Create and exploit the opportunities for external stakeholders to express their thoughts on the Unit's mission, strategy, objectives, tasks, activities, approaches, and capabilities, and gather, validate, and organize this feedback for Unit staff to help them analyze, understand, and incorporate it into new and corrective courses of action that maximize the unit's chances of success. Dynamically balance time spent engaging within and outside the Unit, optimizing these competing activities based on current and upcoming Unit needs. Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the smooth functioning of the unit and maintain the reputation of the organization as a viable business partner. | Demonstrated experience developing communications plans and strategies in the cybersecurity domain. 8+ years working in cybersecurity, with an ability to quickly understand how people, processes, and technologies come together to achieve cybersecurity objectives. Excellent social and communication skills as well as emotional intelligence and resilience in engaging with a wide range of multi-national stakeholders to achieve a particular communication and engagement objective. Demonstrated experience as an agent of change. Experience in business development and account management. 10+ years work experience in cross-cultural diverse environments. Demonstrated ability to work within a team. Experience working with the Middle Eastern culture. | Bachelor's Degree relevant to ICT, cybersecurity, or international studies, or 15+ years relevant professional experience. Master's degree in ICT, cybersecurity, or international studies is a plus Must be fluent in English, additional languages are a plus