Governance and Awareness Coordinator - Montréal, Canada - Lightspeed
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We're looking for a Governance and Awareness Coordinator to enhance our organization's security posture, ensure effective communication, and promote a culture of security awareness and compliance.
What you'll be doing:
- Coordinating security policy development including:
- Identifying and addressing policy gaps.
- Connect Security with other organisational units, ensuring bidirectional communication of security policies and practices.
- Support risk assessments and contribute to governance and risk mitigation strategies.
- Assess the effectiveness of security initiatives in promoting awareness and engagement, preparing reports for senior management on progress, successes, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
- Craft clear and concise messages tailored to various audiences, ensuring security information is easily understandable, accessible, and engaging through newsletters, intranet, and our other communication channels.
- Serve as a liaison between the security team and other organisational units, Track progress, and ensuring effective communication of security policies and practices and managing stakeholders' expectations.
- Ensure alignment of security communication and awareness campaigns with the organisation's security objectives and standards.
- Monitor and refine a communication practice around security policies and support for sales, account management, and other key partners/departments.
- Organize teamwide town hall meetings, steering committees, and other communication channels, strengthening communication within the team and the broader organisation to encourage feedback and collaborative security practices.
What you need to bring:
- Experience providing educational sessions to a nontechnical audience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Familiarity with security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, PCI, ISO/IEC 27001)
- Ability to summarise task and initiative progress and identify challenges.
Even Better if you have:
- Strong bias towards accountability and continuous improvement.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent.
- Have an interest in security and growing your career.
- Familiarity with security technologies and best practices, including cybersecurity defences, intrusion detection systems, and encryption technologies.
What's in it for you?
Come live the Lightspeed experience...
- Ability to do your job in a truly flexible environment;
- Genuine career opportunities in a company that's creating new jobs everyday;
- Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.
- Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
- Immediate access to our benefits plan
- RRSP match after 3 months
- Fitness & Wellness benefit: $500 CAD per calendar year
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Parental leave Top-Up programs
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you're proud to come to every day.
Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that.We were founded in 2005, in Montreal's gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.
Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences.
Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.
- Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is duallisted on the New York Stock Exchange (
NYSE:
LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (
TSX:
LSPD).
With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.
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