AddressTime Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Privacy Lead (Privacy Act Reform)
The opportunity
- 12 Month Fixed-Term Opportunity
- Elevate your career with a leading insurer!
- Sydney, New South Wales
- Happy to 'Talk Flexible Working'
Join QBE, a leading global insurer, as a Privacy Lead specializing in Privacy Act Reforms and projects. In this pivotal role reporting to the Head Of Privacy Compliance (AUSPAC), you will drive QBE's compliance with upcoming privacy reforms, guiding the organization through regulatory changes and their operational impacts. As the subject matter expert, you will assess current processes, identify gaps, and lead initiatives to ensure QBE's privacy program aligns with regulatory requirements. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and implement robust privacy strategies within a dynamic and forward-thinking environment.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Understand privacy law and privacy risks thoroughly, applying this knowledge to navigate and assess business operations.
- Exhibit strong curiosity and proactive inquiry, consistently seeking clarity and distilling complex information to identify gaps in compliance and processes.
- Lead projects activities independently with minimal supervision, actively participating in and contributing to all relevant committees and project stages.
- Conduct thorough pre-project impact assessments, identifying gaps between current practices and upcoming privacy reforms.
- Take ownership of activities from inception to completion, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all privacy-related aspects.
- Demonstrate excellent presentation skills, ability to structure large volumes of content and present it in a digestible form.
- Effectively communicating privacy reforms, obligations, and the compliance status to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with various business units to understand processes, impacts and propose and implement solutions that bridge identified gaps.
- Lead and facilitate business activities related to privacy reforms, ensuring end-to-end management and successful outcomes.
QBE is seeking a candidate who brings expertise in managing privacy projects within large organizations like ours, particularly in sectors such as banking. While deep legal expertise is not required, candidates should possess a strong grasp of privacy risks and a keen ability to integrate privacy strategies with business operations. The ideal candidate will be extroverted, adept at navigating difficult conversations, and skilled at distilling complex concepts into clear, actionable insights. They must be self-motivated, autonomous, and possess a curious mindset, unafraid to ask probing questions. This role demands a proactive individual who can effectively bridge regulatory requirements with practical business needs, driving compliance and operational efficiency in a dynamic corporate environment.
About QBE
We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.
We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.
And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.
With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.
We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too?
Your career at QBE - let's make it happen!
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:
- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Additional leave and support through QBE's Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners
We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:
- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Gold Employer status for 4 years in a row 2019 - 2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Family First accredited employer since 2021
APPLY NOW and let's make it happen!
Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.
QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with accessibility requirements and adjustments, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our employee networks at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at ***********@qbe.com
Applications Close - Monday 8th July
Application Close Date: 07/07/2024 11:59 PM
How to Apply:
To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.
