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- Employment type – Temporary full-time up to 12 months with possibility of extension
- Salary – $133,348 pa - $146,945 pa plus employers’ contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

As a Cyber Security Specialist, you will play a key role in strengthening Multicultural NSW’s cyber security capability and ensuring technology initiatives align with business priorities. Working across the organisation, you will provide trusted advice on security risks, compliance, and digital solutions, helping to protect information assets while enabling secure, practical, and effective business outcomes.

What you’ll do

- Monitor cyber security risks, threats, and alerts.
- Coordinate incident response and remediation activities.
- Maintain security policies, standards, and compliance requirements.
- Assess security risks and provide practical recommendations.
- Review vendor solutions and technology initiatives from a security perspective.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand needs and priorities.
- Provide clear, practical cyber security advice and guidance.
- Support the delivery of secure digital projects and technology improvements.

What we’re looking for

We're looking for a proactive and collaborative cyber security professional who combines technical expertise with strong stakeholder engagement skills.

- Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in cyber security, information security, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience managing security risk,



compliance, incident response, and cyber security operations.
- Knowledge of recognised security frameworks, standards, and best practices.
- Ability to assess risks, prioritise issues, and recommend practical, business-focused solutions.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts in plain language.
- Sound judgement, resilience, and the ability to deliver outcomes in a dynamic environment.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, GIAC, or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor are desirable.
- Make a real impact by strengthening cyber security across the organisation.
- Work on meaningful initiatives that support business and technology outcomes.
- Enjoy flexible hybrid working arrangements.
- Grow your skills and career in a collaborative and supportive team.
- Help deliver better outcomes for multicultural communities across NSW.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work setting
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities




- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

At Multicultural NSW you’ll be helping connect and unite people to develop resilient and welcoming communities. You’ll be supporting NSW to be the most successful multicultural society in the world.

Our work matters. We offer a range of rewarding career opportunities that allow us to promote cultural and religious diversity and social harmony.

- Targeted Question 1

Describe a cyber security risk or incident you managed. What actions did you take and what was the outcome?

- Targeted Question 2

Provide an example of how you balanced cyber security requirements with business needs. What approach did you take and what was the outcome?

Applications close Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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