Head of Security, Resilience and Infrastructure

Start date:

immediately or by arrangement

Work location:

Bern

The Office of Correctional Services (AJV) of the Canton of Bern faces significant structural, technical and organizational changes in the coming years. At the same time, the requirements for security, resilience, crisis prevention and the availability of increasingly networked security-relevant systems are rising. With the new Security, Resilience and Infrastructure (SRI) department, we are creating a shared professional and organizational framework to manage these topics integrally across the entire AJV.

As Head of SRI, you will significantly shape the buildup of the new department and bear overall responsibility for technical, organizational and personnel leadership. You will combine strategic management with high practical relevance and ensure that the competencies from Security & Safety, IT security and security systems, incident and crisis management, Business Continuity and risk management as well as strategic infrastructure planning and Facility Management work together effectively. At the same time, you will perform the deputy function for the Management Services & Development department leadership.

Your tasks

• Build up and lead the SRI department technically, personally and organizationally, prioritize its tasks and coordinate the associated specialist areas.
• Manage the integral further development of security, resilience and infrastructure in the AJV and establish common standards, methods and processes.
• Advise and support the Executive Board, directorates and other managers of the AJV on complex security, technical, resilience and infrastructural issues.
• Combine central specialist leadership with the decentralized operational responsibility of the correctional facilities and ensure effective cooperation with the local specialist managers.
• Assess strategic and security-critical projects, prioritize their processing based on risk and ensure the necessary testing, decision-making and approval processes.
• Coordinate cooperation with cantonal partner offices, particularly the Office for Real Estate and Buildings and the cantonal IT, as well as with specialist planners, suppliers and other external partners.
• Represent the department towards the Executive Board, the organizational units and external partner offices and ensure target-group-oriented reporting.

Your profile

You bring in-depth knowledge in Facility Management, in strategic infrastructure planning and/or in user and operator representation for demanding construction and infrastructure projects. In addition, you have an affinity for IT questions. You understand the connections between operational processes, building technology, security, maintainability, availability, emergency operation as well as life cycle and follow-up costs and can effectively incorporate these requirements into planning and construction processes. Furthermore, you bring the following skills and experience:

• Tertiary degree in a field relevant to the function, for example engineering, computer science, security technology, Facility Management, real estate management, business administration or a comparable specialization.
• Several years of leadership and professional experience in a technically, infrastructurally or security-related demanding environment.
• Proven specialist competence in the field of Facility Management and infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of the connections between security, IT, technology, infrastructure, operation, risks and organizational resilience.
• Experience in managing complex projects, processes or specialist organizations as well as in dealing with different internal and external stakeholders.
• Very good strategic and conceptual skills combined with a pragmatic and implementation-oriented way of working.
• Leadership personality with strong communication and advisory competence, decision-making ability, assertiveness and the ability to bring different specialist disciplines together towards a common vision.
• Ability to structure complex facts, set priorities based on risk and prepare decisions in a target-group-oriented manner for governing bodies.
• Interest in the special tasks and framework conditions of correctional services; experience in public administration or in a security-critical organization is an advantage.

We offer you

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