Deputy Security Coordinator

Job Description

As a Deputy Security Coordinator at the NVWA, you’ll be at the heart of the security field. In your day-to-day work, you’ll provide advice on personal security, information and physical security, integrity, privacy, and espionage. You know exactly how to assess strategic risks and thrive on tackling security challenges. You look beyond the incident itself; you dig deeper, see the broader implications, and provide clear recommendations. Incidents don’t scare you—they challenge you to learn, grow, and make our organization even safer.

We are looking for a Deputy Security Coordinator who brings expertise in the specified security areas and is eager to expand and develop their knowledge in these fields. The Security Coordinator will serve as your team leader and mentor, but you will also be an integral part of the Security Office team, where you will play a key role alongside the Security Coordinator in ensuring the effective implementation of the comprehensive security policy. 

What will you be doing?

• You provide both solicited and unsolicited advice to the NVWA’s senior management on matters such as security risks, or the interpretation and impact of certain incidents.
• You identify relevant internal and external developments that affect our strategic risks.
• You will work closely with the various specialists employed by the NVWA in the aforementioned security areas and are committed to continuously improving this collaboration.
• You will be working within the organization, for example, to conduct security awareness activities or to carry out fact-finding investigations.

In this role, you will handle and analyze sensitive company information. An independent, objective approach is essential. Therefore, this position requires a strong moral compass and a certificate of no objection based on a Security Clearance Level B (AIVD screening).   

Job Requirements

In this role, you will contribute both through coordination and hands-on execution to the handling and management of security incidents in the broadest sense. This may involve arranging personal security for colleagues facing threatening situations, providing security advice for business trips abroad, investigating an integrity report, or offering security guidance as part of an emergency response team, such as during a demonstration. Stress resilience, the ability to improvise, a sense of reality, and a “hands-on” mentality are valued qualities in this role. You are first and foremost a team player, but you can also work independently when the task requires it.

In addition, we would like to see the following:

• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in integrated security and/or enterprise risk management. 
• You have up-to-date knowledge of personal, information, and physical security, integrity, privacy, and espionage, preferably gained through experience with the applicable laws and regulations governing these areas in the public sector, such as the Central Government Security Regulations, BIO, and NkBR.
• You have proven experience in conducting and evaluating internal fact-finding investigations.
• Knowledge of related fields (such as organizational studies, change management, behavioral psychology, quality management, and ethics) and the application of this knowledge in, for example, awareness programs is highly valued.  

Skills:

• Analyze
• Organizational sensitivity
• Flexibility, improvisation
• Networking

The NVWA is committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of society and places great importance on an inclusive hiring policy. We therefore encourage everyone to apply, regardless of cultural background, age, gender identity, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.

Terms of Employment

• Salary level: Grade 12
• Monthly salary: Min. €4,691 – Max. €6,907 (gross)
• Employment status: Fixed-term employment contract with the possibility of conversion to a permanent contract
• Contract duration: 1 year
• Minimum number of hours per week: 32
• Maximum number of hours per week: 36

Other terms and conditions of employment

In addition to an onboarding program tailored to your role and extensive training and/or coaching opportunities to support your professional growth, we also offer the following employee benefits:

Individual Choice Budget You receive an Individual Choice Budget (ICB) equal to 16.50% of your gross annual salary. You can have your ICB paid out, for example, on a monthly or annual basis, or you can use it to purchase additional leave hours. In addition, you can use your IKB to purchase a (electric) bicycle for commuting tax-free, set up your home office,pay off your student loan with tax benefits up to a maximum of €2,000 per year,or even make your home more sustainable. To encourage this, the national government offers an employer contribution on top of the IKB.

Vacation Days If you work 36 hours per week, you are entitled to 144 vacation hours and 64 IKB leave hours per year. Do you work more or less? Then these hours are calculated proportionally. And do you need a little less vacation time? Then you can also choose to have your 64 IKB leave hours paid out or added to your IKB saved leave

Travel Allowance You will receive a mobility card that allows you to travel by train in second class for your commute. Do you bike to work? If so, you will receive a travel allowance of €0.21 per kilometer cycled. If you have a field-based position, you are often also eligible for an electric company car. You may also use this for personal purposes based on the additional tax liabilityplus a personal contribution.

Leave Policies
The government offers leave policies for various situations, such as (additional) maternity leave (up to 5 weeks with 100% pay), parental leave (up to 9 weeks with 100% pay in the first year and an additional 75% for 4 weeks), care leave, and adoption/foster care leave.

Pension The Dutch government has an attractive pension plan with ABP, the General Civil Service Pension Fund. Read more about the ABP pension plan here.

Additional allowances and reimbursements
For some positions at the NVWA, it is necessary to work outside regular office hours or to be on call. However, this is compensated by additional allowances or reimbursements. For example, we offer an on-call and standby duty allowance and an irregular shift allowance.

Details

• Applications will be considered in accordance with applicable agreements, including the Central Government Collective Labor Agreement and the NVP Application Code.
• A Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) is required to work at the NVWA.
• If the position involves a fixed-term employment contract with the prospect of becoming permanent, the permanent contract is initially preceded by a one-year contract. Provided the employee proves to be suitable, the contract is generally converted into a permanent contract of indefinite duration after one year.
• Is this a job opening for a fixed-term contract with the possibility of becoming permanent, but do you already have a permanent position as a civil servant? If so, you will retain your permanent position.
• If the position is initially a fixed-term role, it will not be reopened if the role can be made permanent within the organization and the (initially) temporary position was filled by an internal employee with a permanent contract.
• Online screening—for example, through search engines or social media—can be part of the selection process.
• A competency test and/or an assessment may be part of the selection process.
• A comprehensive A or B screening by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) may be required for certain positions at the NVWA, including those in the Intelligence and Investigation Service (IOD).
• Recruitment agencies are asked to refrain from contacting us regarding this job opening.

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More about your future department

The Security Office is a new team currently being established within the Governance & Risk Management (G&RM) department of the Internal Organization Division.
The Security Office will bring together approximately 15 employees from the security domains of integrated security, information security, physical security, and privacy.
The team’s primary task is to support the Deputy Director of Internal Organization (IO) in his role as portfolio holder for integrated security and as Chief Security Officer (CSO). To fulfill this task, the Security Office bears overall responsibility for security within the NVWA (as outlined in the NVWA Comprehensive Security Implementation Plan).

In addition, the Security Office has the following responsibilities: 

• Keeping the overview of the NVWA’s interests to be protected up to date, particularly the NVWA’s vital and critical processes and systems.
• Proactively identify risks and assess, analyze, and evaluate security and espionage risks to the interests that need to be protected. Then, provide recommendations on the security measures to be implemented.
• Developing and coordinating policies and frameworks in the areas of integrated security, personal security and espionage threats, physical security, information security, and privacy, and supporting their implementation and compliance.
• Ensure compliance with this policy and these guidelines within the NVWA, including by reviewing plans against them.
• Providing solicited and unsolicited advice to the CSO, CIO, and relevant line management in the areas mentioned.
• Ensure the personal safety of NVWA employees when necessary. Responsible for recording security incidents and handling them.
• Raising security awareness within the NVWA.
• Support strategic and tactical/operational risk management.

The team includes several independent security roles: the security coordinator, chief information security officer, chief privacy officer, and Wpg privacy officer.

Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA)

In the Netherlands, we take it for granted that the products we use and everything we eat are safe. We expect animals to be treated well, even if they are destined for slaughter. We want to be able to consume fruits and vegetables without a second thought, and other products are “naturally” fine too. We want to be able to walk in nature without worry and buy toys for our children without suspicion. As consumers, we simply rely on that; for us, it goes without saying.

But we sometimes forget that companies work hard every day to maintain those high standards. That it isn’t always easy for business owners to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. We also forget that the government oversees this. Safety sounds so simple, but it isn’t.

What does the NVWA do?
The staff of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) work hard every day to maintain that standard. Through dialogue with businesses in the hospitality sector, slaughterhouses, plant cultivation, and other producers, the NVWA monitors food and product safety, plant health, and the welfare of animals, nature, and the environment. We do so in accordance with national and international laws and regulations. We operate on a basis of trust, but we take firm action against businesses that do not adhere to the rules. In the interest of society.

We closely monitor where the greatest risks lie and where oversight is most urgently needed, so that we can inform consumers and others in a timely manner. The NVWA also plays a key role in export inspections and in the import of products into Europe.

What does the NVWA stand for?
The NVWA is responsible for overseeing animal welfare, animal health, food safety, product safety, tobacco and alcohol prevention, plant health, and nature and the environment.

The Dutch government strives to be an employer that every employee—regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, or disability—wants to work for. Addressing social issues in diverse teams makes us more effective and innovative. That makes the work meaningful and challenging.

The NVWA is an agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Nature (LVVN) and the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport.

Interested in applying?

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) invites you to apply on their website. Clicking the button below will take you away from this site and directly to the application form. The government values a diverse and inclusive organization. Working in diverse teams makes us more effective, more innovative, and makes the work more enjoyable. Everyone is therefore invited to apply.