Head of the ESO Space Security Assurance Management Office
Pubblicato il 15-08-2026 - ESA Space Mechanisms in Frascati
Location
ESRIN, Frascati, Italy or ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands or ESA HQ, Paris, France
Description
Head of the ESO Space Security Assurance Management Office, ESA Security Office (ESO), Directorate of Resources and Services.
Reporting to the Head of the Security Office as Head of Space Programme Security Assurance, you will be responsible for managing the ESA Security Office activities related to security risk management, security assurance, certification and accreditation for space programmes (ESA, EU and Third Party), during their whole life cycle, in synergy with and in support of the ESA directorates concerned.
Duties
Your Tasks And Responsibilities Will Include The Following
- For programmes under ESA’s responsibility, managing the full security accreditation/certification process for space programmes, up to the issuance of the accreditation/certification statement;
- For programmes under a third party’s responsibility, managing the preparation of the accreditation/certification dossier, in close coordination with the relevant programme/project team,
up to its submission and presentation to the third party’s Security Accreditation Authority/Board;
- Ensuring coherence and harmonisation of accreditation strategies and processes for EU and Third‑Party Programmes/Projects with the applicable security frameworks, including the ESA Security Regulations, Directives and Strategy;
- Managing the ESO Space Programme Security Assurance Team, providing matrix support to specific space programmes/projects in order to:
- develop and maintain an independent, high‑level security risk analysis and threat assessment to assess the project’s security posture and residual risks;
- perform independent security assurance engineering analyses to propose the baseline system security posture and the minimum set of security requirements;
- define tailored security accreditation/certification strategies for each space project;
- establish accreditation/certification plans, identifying