Board Adviser — Cybersecurity Governance
Netherlands·Property & Real Estate·Housing services· Utrecht·Posted 23 September 2026
Applications close 29 October 2026
Housing services organisation in Netherlands
Partner-sourced
Sourced through a partner search firm or the sponsor's own nomination committee, and verified before listing.
The problem this seat exists to solve
Candidates should have cybersecurity governance experience and the ability to communicate with non-technical boards. Familiarity with housing or public-interest services is useful. They should demonstrate how their advice changed a risk or investment decision, not merely increased awareness.
Give the board questions it can use
The adviser will help a board oversee cyber risk in terms of service disruption, information exposure and investment choices. The assignment is intended to improve governance judgement, not produce a technical audit report that directors cannot connect to their responsibilities.
Advisory scope
Review current board reporting, risk ownership and the evidence supporting management’s assurances. Examine the treatment of critical suppliers, identity access, recovery readiness and significant unresolved weaknesses. Identify where reporting overemphasises activity while leaving consequences and residual risk unclear.
Practical outputs
Develop a focused board oversight agenda and a reporting approach that explains exposure, decisions and accountability. Help directors rehearse their role in a serious incident, including the information needed to challenge management and support timely decisions. Recommend improvements to escalation and assurance without taking over operational security.
The proposed board pack should explain material changes since the previous review, the service consequences of unresolved exposure and the decisions management needs. Avoid aggregating unrelated measures into a single maturity score. The adviser should help directors test whether claimed improvements are supported by recovery exercises, independent review or other appropriate evidence. A board incident exercise should clarify the boundary between executive response and board oversight, including when directors need additional information to evaluate continuity, communication or major spending decisions.
Boundaries and acceptance
The engagement should leave the board better able to distinguish confidence from evidence. The adviser has no implied director office or incident-command authority. Existing roles, supplier relationships and advisory interests require conflict review. Candidates should explain how they would respond when a reassuring cyber dashboard is inconsistent with weak recovery testing or unresolved access risks.
Terms
- Where the board sits
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- Applications close
- 29 October 2026
- Appointment
- Advisory engagement
Before you apply — an advisory engagement
No office of director, and no appointment formalities.
An advisory engagement creates no directorship in the Netherlands. There is no registry filing, no regulator pre-approval, no residency arithmetic and no statutory director liability — which is why it is so often the right first step into a market you do not yet know.
- On this brief
- Independence
- Where the engagement specifies independence from any search that follows, that is a requirement of the engagement rather than a courtesy — an adviser to a board is not a candidate for it.
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