Regional Information Security Officer

Remote/ Virtual

Why Join Ascension?

Ascension leverages technology to create collaborative solutions that improve everyday health decisions. The technology enables seamless access to data across all applications transforming the customer experience when interacting with technology and enhancing our ability across Ascension to better serve communities with greater agility and responsiveness. It is used to provide insightful use of automation and data-drive improvements to enhance the provider, patient and consumer experience as well as keeping cybersecruity with a strong posture to protect data and other valuable assets.

Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. In FY2019, Ascension provided $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs.

Ascension includes more than 150,000 associates and 40,000 aligned providers. The national health system operates more than 2,600 sites of care – including 150 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 20 states and the District of Columbia, while providing a variety of services including clinical and network services, venture capital investing, investment management, biomedical engineering, facilities management, risk management, and contracting through Ascension’s own group purchasing organization.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities:

• Supervises implementation, compliance, and enforcement of all national information security policies and standards.
• Recommends revisions to information security policies and standards.
• Supervises all local security officers in the assigned region.
• Recommends strategic information security processes and methods.
• Builds relationships with customers and information technology partners.
• Directs, interprets, summarizes and presents to management cost/benefit analyses, best practices, and implementation plans.
• Supervises completion of all required information security assessments.
• Implements processes and methods for auditing and addressing non-compliance to information security standards.

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Security, Accounting Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent required; Master’s degree preferred.

Preferred Work Experience:

• 7 years of information security experience.
• 10 years of information security experience is preferred.
• 5 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

What You Will Need

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required Master’s degree preferred

Work Experience:

• 7 years of experience required.
• 10 years of experience preferred.
• 5 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

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