Programme Manager: Cyber

CYBER PROGRAMME MANAGER
12 Month Contract
Location:
Midrand
ROLE PURPOSE

• Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of the cyber security programme, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives, business priorities and the programme's governance framework.
• Oversee the end-to-end programme management of initiatives, including associated project plans, risks, dependencies and deliverables.
• Ensure consistent execution of programme activities in alignment with strategic targets, goals and objectives.
• Provide oversight of risk management, resource allocation, dependencies and challenges, as well as stakeholder engagement across the organisation.
• Monitor progress against agreed milestones and produce accurate assurance and performance reports for executive and governance forums.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment between delivery teams, assurance functions and technical leads.
• Provide leadership and coordination across delivery teams, driving accountability, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement to support a resilient, future-ready cyber security environment.

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of the Cyber Improvement Programme, ensuring successful execution of cyber security strategic initiatives and alignment to business priorities, strategic targets and key risk indicators.

• Establish and maintain programme governance, delivery standards, reporting and assurance processes across all cyber security strategic initiatives.

• Support cyber security planning and strategy execution initiatives and events.
• Manage the consolidated cyber roadmap, dependencies, milestones, risks and interrelationships across all work streams, strategic initiatives, teams and stakeholders.

• Provide programme and project management support to strategic initiatives, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, schedule, budget and outcomes.

• Act as the central point of coordination for programme communications, executive reporting, governance forums and escalations.
• Engage effectively with senior stakeholders and ensure that programme status, risks, dependencies and key decisions are clearly communicated.

• Maintain oversight of programme risks, issues and programme-related actions, ensuring timely mitigation and resolution.
• Ensure that appropriate governance, assurance and compliance requirements are incorporated into programme delivery.

• Track and report on programme outcomes, benefits, KPIs and value delivery, ensuring strategic investments achieve their intended objectives.

• Where required, support programme budgeting, forecasting, resource planning and investment tracking across strategic initiatives.

• Drive the adoption of programme management best practices, standardised tooling, reporting automation and lessons learned.
• Identify opportunities to improve programme delivery, governance and reporting processes.

• Foster collaboration across Cyber Security, Technology, Digital & IT, Networks and other relevant business and technical teams to enable effective strategy execution.

• Support the coordination of key priorities where there is an urgent need to coordinate efforts across multiple teams, such as incident response, operational escalations or other critical cyber security initiatives.
• These activities should be managed as structured mini-projects where appropriate.

• Minimum 8 years' experience leading complex programmes and strategic initiatives, with a proven track record of delivering outcomes across large, multi-stakeholder and cross-functional environments.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives into executable roadmaps, manage interdependencies and risks, and drive delivery against agreed targets, benefits and business outcomes.
• Strong experience establishing programme governance, managing risks and dependencies, tracking KPIs, benefits realisation and reporting to executive stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, coordinate and collaborate with diverse stakeholders, both technical and business, and drive alignment…