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Form of work- Initial contract to start ASAP until 17/01/2025 with possible extension paying approx. $734/day
- Brisbane CBD location with flexibility to WFH 2 days per week
Our client, Department of Education, are currently seeking a Senior Privacy Officer to join their ITB Privacy and Safer Technologies directorate.
The Privacy Team provides high level privacy advice to corporate and regional business units, as well as schools regarding the department's statutory privacy compliance obligations. The team also provides routine privacy advice regarding risk, and mitigation strategies particularly relating to corporate and enterprise products, and assesses policy, procedure, processes, initiatives and projects as required in consultation with various other compliance activities within the department.
The position reports to the Director/Manager, Privacy and will work as part of the privacy team which is comprised of a Manager, Principal Privacy Officer, two Senior Privacy Officers and a Privacy Officer.
Position overview:
- Contribute to the management, investigation and reporting of privacy complaints and privacy breaches within the department in accordance with the department's statutory compliance obligations. Liaise as necessary with identified business units regarding the circumstances regarding the complaint or breach and ultimately provide a report to the complainant/business unit regarding the outcome of such investigations and any remedial activities to be undertaken.
- Initial contract to start ASAP until 17/01/2025 with possible extension paying approx. $734/day
- Brisbane CBD location with flexibility to WFH 2 days per week
Our client, Department of Education, are currently seeking a Senior Privacy Officer to join their ITB Privacy and Safer Technologies directorate.
The Privacy Team provides high level privacy advice to corporate and regional business units, as well as schools regarding the department's statutory privacy compliance obligations. The team also provides routine privacy advice regarding risk, and mitigation strategies particularly relating to corporate and enterprise products, and assesses policy, procedure, processes, initiatives and projects as required in consultation with various other compliance activities within the department.
The position reports to the Director/Manager, Privacy and will work as part of the privacy team which is comprised of a Manager, Principal Privacy Officer, two Senior Privacy Officers and a Privacy Officer.
Position overview:
- Contribute to the management, investigation and reporting of privacy complaints and privacy breaches within the department in accordance with the department's statutory compliance obligations. Liaise as necessary with identified business units regarding the circumstances regarding the complaint or breach and ultimately provide a report to the complainant/business unit regarding the outcome of such investigations and any remedial activities to be undertaken.
- Coordinate with departmental stakeholders, including Information Custodians, Regional Directors, Principals and senior executives to ensure privacy management practices are undertaken in accordance with this guidance and relevant legislation, regulation and industry better practice.
- Partner with ICT enabled, and non-ICT enabled projects, and business units to govern privacy impact assessments for project and business unit initiatives. Use sustainable and defensible processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence, the impact on the business and actions to be performed to mitigate the risk and to reduce the potential impact on the business.
- Undertake other privacy related activities as requested by Director/Manager of the department's privacy function.
Mandatory Requirements
- Minimum 3 years' experience investigating and managing privacy complaints and privacy breaches under the commonwealth or Queensland privacy framework.
- Demonstrated experience in providing high level privacy advice to senior management
- Demonstrated experience in undertaking complex Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) working with Information technology business areas.
- Extensive knowledge or ability to rapidly acquire knowledge of the Commonwealth and Queensland Privacy legislation and framework.
Desirable attributes
- Extensive working knowledge of state and federal privacy legislation, and demonstrated knowledge in the delivery of privacy management better practice.
- Demonstrated excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience identifying privacy risk and privacy risk assessment, development of risk mitigation strategies.
- Tertiary qualifications in law or management, or a priyacy certification such as CIPM, CIPP/E
- Working knowledge of the European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
- Experience managing client complaints and expectations in a statutory compliance environment
- Experience working both independently and as part of a large team
- Demonstrated skills in respect of record keeping and attention to detail and compliance with a code of conduct and policy/procedure
- Demonstrated capacity to work effectively under pressure, handle competing priorities, analysing complex issues and providing high level advice and meeting externally imposed deadlines.
- Proven ability to manage projects, programs and processes and to lead project teams at a strategic level to achieve organisational outcomes within time and cost limitations.
- Demonstrated ability to research and analyse complex policy issues and provide high level strategic advice and workable options to senior management.
- Demonstrated highly developed written communication skills including the preparation of briefings, submissions and reports on complex issues and develop communications materials for a range of channels to support good governance and decision making.
To submit your application, in strict confidence, please submit your resume in Word Format using the appropriate link quoting reference No. 235418. Should you require further information please email **************@hudson.com
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