Policy, Planning & Regulation (Government & Defence)Pinpoint Talent
is seeking a
Senior Privacy Officer
to join a Queensland State Government Department based in Brisbane CBD, offering a 7-month contract with possible extensions.This 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.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.If this sounds like you apply now!
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