Address About the roleIn this role, you will bring a proactive and positive approach to implementing effective privacy management strategies across the organisation to ensure the integrity of personal and health information.
Work type: Permanent, fulltime. Classification: Band 7 ($100,064 - $110,990)
Key responsibilities include:
Understanding and being able to practically apply the legislative framework for privacy and freedom of information.
Driving a proactive privacy culture by implementing a number of privacy management strategies across the organisation, including assessing the privacy implications from any project or action, providing advice and guidance in the event of privacy incidents or breaches, developing effective responses to any privacy breach or complaint, including a review of process and procedure that lead to any breach, coordinating responses to formal complaints to Regulators, Tribunals or Courts and facilitating training to raise awareness of compliance obligations relating to privacy.
Managing effective freedom of information practices for the organisation, including providing sound and consistent advice to internal stakeholders on issues related to freedom of information, processing requests for information and making the necessary decisions in accordance with the legislative provisions, responding to Regulators, Tribunals and Courts in respect of freedom of information appeals, and providing freedom of information training to relevant teams and departments across the organisation.
Communicating with applicants or complainants in a sensitive and professional manner.
Developing and implementing effective reporting tools to track activity, themes and trends in transparency, privacy, and freedom of information matters over time.
Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships and ongoing consultation, communication, and collaboration with key stakeholders.
Providing operational support to the Manager Governance and the Governance team.
About youTo be successful in this role you will understand the legislative framework for privacy, as well as the Freedom of Information Act (Vic) 1982.
Essential Experience:
Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply legislation and use personal judgment to support effective decision making.
Tertiary qualifications in Business, Law or a similar field with several years’ experience in a similar role in comparable organisations or lessor formal qualifications with extensive experience.
Comprehension of the legislative framework for privacy, as well as the Freedom of Information Act (Vic) 1982.
Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply legislation and use personal judgment to support effective decision making.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise work to achieve outcomes, adhere to timelines and manage competing priorities.
Ability to identify processes, tasks and resources required to achieve a goal.
Demonstrated ability to support the implementation of best practice policy, procedure, and strategy across an organisation.
Ability to build rapport and trust with a range of stakeholders, either external or internal, to achieve optimal outcomes.
The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. It is our current policy to ask for your COVID-19 vaccination status. You have the right not to disclose your vaccination status, and successful candidates who are not vaccinated or do not want to disclose will go through a simple risk assessment process.
If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!
Create our future together at the City of Greater GeelongAt the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.
We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.
Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.
We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.
If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!
We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.
A career with usCentral Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.
We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.
We offer:
salary sacrificing and novated lease options
cultural and ceremonial leave
study leave
paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
training and career development opportunities
a healthy and safe environment
our employee wellbeing program
corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
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Applications close Wednesday 6th March at11:55pm.
Enquiries: Vesna Allan | Chief Legal Counsel | Vallan@geelongcity.vic.gov.au
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