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Cybersecurity GRC Consultant – NIST CSF 2.0

Mergen IT LLCSan Francisco, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 11 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers significant growth potential by leading impactful NIST CSF 2.0 cybersecurity assessments for a global enterprise. You'll thrive here if you are a detail-oriented, strategic thinker adept at stakeholder engagement and developing practical improvement roadmaps. Apply to contribute to cutting-edge cybersecurity strategy and advance your expertise.

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role: Cybersecurity GRC Consultant – NIST CSF 2.0

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)

 

Role Purpose

Lead the delivery of a NIST CSF 2.0 cybersecurity gap and maturity assessment for a global enterprise program, covering assessment planning, stakeholder engagement, evidence review, maturity scoring, risk-based gap prioritization, executive reporting, and development of a practical improvement roadmap.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Own end to end engagement governance, project planning, milestones, risks, dependencies, status reporting, and stakeholder communications.
  • Conduct NIST CSF 2.0 maturity assessment across functions, categories, subcategories, implementation tiers, and profiles.
  • Review policies, standards, procedures, controls, risk registers, asset inventories, KPIs/KRIs, and supporting evidence.
  • Facilitate interviews and workshops with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, technology, and business stakeholders.
  • Define defensible maturity scoring, identify control gaps, assess business risk, and prioritize remediation actions.
  • Develop executive ready assessment reports, maturity dashboards, prioritized recommendations, and near/mid/long term roadmap.

 

Required Experience

Area

Requirement

Total Experience

10 to 15 years in cybersecurity, GRC, risk management, audit, security consulting, or cybersecurity program assessment.

NIST CSF Expertise

Strong hands on experience with NIST CSF, preferably NIST CSF 2.0 maturity assessments.

Framework Mapping

Experience mapping controls across NIST CSF, ISO 27001, NIST 800 53, CIS Controls, SOC 2, or similar frameworks.

Assessment Delivery

Proven experience conducting enterprise wide cybersecurity maturity, gap, risk, or control assessments.

Stakeholder Management

Ability to conduct interviews/workshops with senior security, risk, compliance, technology, and business stakeholders.

Executive Reporting

Strong experience creating leadership ready cybersecurity reports, maturity dashboards, and roadmap presentations.

Consulting Delivery

Experience working in consulting/advisory environments with structured methodology, governance, and client facing deliverables.

Risk Prioritization

Ability to convert control gaps into risk ranked remediation recommendations and practical roadmaps.

 

Required Skills

  • Strong expertise in NIST CSF 2.0, cybersecurity governance, risk management, compliance, control maturity models, and ISO 27001 / ISMS.
  • Ability to map controls across NIST CSF, ISO 27001, NIST 800 53, CIS Controls, SOC 2, and similar frameworks.
  • Experience in evidence-based assessment, maturity scoring, risk-based gap prioritization, and remediation roadmap development.
  • Excellent consulting delivery, workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, executive reporting, and written/verbal communication skills.

 

Preferred Certifications

CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor / Lead Implementer, NIST CSF training/certification, PMP / Prince2 / Agile certification preferred.

 

Tools / Platforms Knowledge Preferred

  • GRC and evidence management platforms such as Archer, ServiceNow GRC, OneTrust, MetricStream, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI, and cybersecurity KPI/KRI dashboarding tools.

Skills

SOC 2
Agile
Power BI
Stakeholder Management

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