Senior Human Resilience & Crisis Readiness Consultant

• Competitive salary, paid on the 25th, with annual review and 8% holiday allowance

• Pension via Nationale Nederlanden, Northwave pays 50%, including partner pension

• 25 vacation days plus all national holidays

• Ample special leave for marriage, birth, bereavement, care, and pregnancy

• Mobility allowance; choose €0.25/km or via public transport

• MacBook, phone, and accessories fully provided

• €200 net annual allowance for flexible and remote working

• Alleo budget for sports, wellness, and leisure of your choice

• Training budget

• Hybrid working from a modern office in Utrecht

• Personal growth via the Role Model and FeedForward cycle, where your ambitions and development are central

Northwave Cyber Security makes organizations digitally resilient. With over 275 specialists from Utrecht, Leipzig, Stockholm, and Brussels, we combine ethical hacking, behavioral psychology, and security management into one integral approach.

Within Human Resilience & Crisis Readiness, we help organizations become sustainably resilient against cyber threats. We do this by bringing human behavior, crisis management, and business continuity together in one integrated approach. We do not only support organizations with training or exercises, but work together to build an ecosystem of lasting behavioral change and crisis readiness.

As a Senior Human Resilience & Crisis Readiness Consultant, you are a trusted advisor for clients who want to increase their resilience against cyber incidents.

You guide organizations through complex issues in the fields of cyber crisis management, business continuity management, incident response preparedness, crisis communication, and human resilience. You help executives, crisis teams, and operational teams to be better prepared for cyber incidents and support them during exercises, assessments, and improvement trajectories.

You translate complex client issues into pragmatic solutions and guide organizations in developing multi-year crisis readiness programs. In doing so, you work closely with colleagues from Incident Response, Security Consulting, RedTeam, and Managed Security Services to provide clients with integral support.

In addition to client work, you play an active role in the further development of our services, methodologies, and propositions.

• Leading cyber crisis management, business continuity, and crisis readiness projects

• Advising boards, crisis management teams, and incident response teams

• Designing, facilitating, and evaluating cyber crisis exercises, simulations, and workshops

• Performing crisis readiness assessments, maturity assessments, and plan reviews

• Developing crisis management, incident response, and business continuity plans

• Guiding organizations through multi-year crisis readiness programs

• Advising on NIS2, DORA, and other relevant laws and regulations from a crisis readiness perspective

• Coaching clients during complex decision-making in crisis situations

• Supporting account teams during commercial processes and quotation processes

• Contributing to product development, methodologies, KPI frameworks, and new propositions

• Guiding and coaching junior and medior consultants

• Identifying developments in the threat landscape and translating them into services for clients.