Human Risk Manager / Cybersecurity Awareness Professional SME

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You will design the curriculum, run monthly phishing exercises and lunch & learns, teach in person, and measure whether behavior actually changes. You will lead one awareness specialist. Location: On site, Washington, DC Key Responsibilities Assess, design and build training scenarios, approaches, objectives, plans, tools, job aids and curricula.Develop and revise training courses.Train staff through formal classroom courses, workshops and seminars, in person when the customer asks.Run the customer’s awareness and training program, which covers role-based training, annual awareness training, phishing and other social engineering training, and ad hoc training.Track, analyze and trend completion of every type of training, and report on it.Run monthly and ad hoc phishing and social engineering exercises, then build and analyze the reports.Run monthly and ad hoc cybersecurity lunch & learns, and report on attendance and feedback.Review the training program for gaps and recommend fixes.Run an annual gap analysis of the awareness program and report on its maturity.Administer the KnowBe4 platform: campaigns, phish-prone metrics, training assignments and reports.Align training with FISMA, NIST SP 800-50 and SP 800-16, and customer requirements.Build targeted training from incident, vulnerability and POA&M trends, and give extra training to repeat clickers and high-risk roles such as executives, privileged users and OT/manufacturing staff.Supervise and mentor the Awareness Journeyman. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business or IT8+ years leading a security awareness training program, not only delivering trainingExperience designing curricula and teaching classroom courses, workshops and seminarsHas run phishing or social engineering simulation programs and reported their metricsInformation security training experience under FISMA and the NIST SP 800 seriesU.S. citizen, able to pass a High Risk background investigationAble to work on site in Washington, DC during core hours, 8:00 AM-4:00 PMRequires no certification for this role. Preferred Qualifications KnowBe4 administrationSANS Security Awareness Professional, CompTIA Security+, CISSP or a similar certificationExperience with a federal role-based training programBehavior-change measurement: phish-prone trends, reporting rates, risk scoringHas trained staff in a manufacturing, OT or industrial environmentInstructional design tools and LMS administrationActive Tier 5 or Top Secret investigation Apply for Position Working at Assurit Assurit is an award winning, certified small business headquartered in Fairfax, VA. We offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package inclusive of medical and dental coverage, as well as paid time off. Founded in 2013, Assurit has become a trusted provider of cybersecurity expertise to customers across federal, state and local governments, as well as the commercial sector. We are an employee-centric organization that focuses on the growth and development of our greatest asset – our people. 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