Two state departments are seeking to fill key IT-related positions, with one being a C-level assignment.
The California Secretary of State’s Office (SOS) is recruiting for a new chief risk officer (CRO), an information technology (IT) manager II-level position that was posted Friday. Joe White, the Office’s inaugural CRO, became its chief information officer, replacing Rita Gass, who became CIO at the Employment Development Department.
The office’s new CRO will work “under the administrative direction of the chief operating officer,” according to the job listing, and will have “full management responsibility for establishing and managing the most complex operation of the SOS Risk Management Office.” The CRO will direct “the most complex initiatives and initiating key actions on a wide variety of complex risk and security related tasks” and assist the office’s chief information officer in “ensuring information assets and associated technology, applications, systems, infrastructure and processes are adequately protected” within their digital ecosystem.
The role’s scope includes “extensive risk and information security oversight, reporting, governance, communications, education, and consulting,” and whoever is selected will be a member of SOS’s Cybersecurity Program. The incumbent, per the job listing, works to support systems and services in “Business Technology Management, Software Engineering, System Engineering, Information Security Engineering and IT Project Management domains.”
The position’s essential functions are 40 percent risk management office administration, including supporting “Department of Homeland Security-designated mission critical infrastructure”; 35 percent information security oversight and consulting, including leading development and updating of information security and risk management policies; 20 percent risk and compliance management; and 5 percent business relationship management, according to the duty statement.
The position has a monthly salary range of $9,725 to $11,821; and, per the listing, “will run until filled” with a cutoff date of Feb. 12.
The California Department of Technology is recruiting for an IT manager II, in a posting published Monday, to provide “project management and delivery services to departments.” The candidate selected will concurrently assist on “multiple, high-visibility projects requiring the mastery of technical and (IT) project management concepts, principles, practices,” according to the job listing. The successful candidate will work “directly with high-ranking executives” in affected departments and may deliver project and proposed resolution ideas to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, the state Legislature, the California Government Operations Agency and other entities. People “in this functional area” will work on projects of “varying size, duration, and complexity, some of which may involve very large expenditures, are very complex or sensitive, or are of a very critical nature … ,” the listing says.
The IT manager II will do “project management functions as either a dedicated Project Director, Project Manager, or as a Project Management Advisor/Consultant”; and may be assigned to “directly manage one or more projects” or offer project management advisory and consulting services on projects. The person selected may also give “oversight, leadership, and direction to staff” in support of service delivery.
The position has a monthly salary range of $9,725 to $11,821; and the application deadline is Feb. 11.
