Data Privacy & Governance Workstream Lead

usyd; Australia; On-site; AUD 152,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Superannuation

Job summary

University of Sydney is seeking an experienced Workstream Lead to drive the Privacy and Resilience Program, guiding data governance and privacy practices across a decentralised environment.

You will coordinate discovery and remediation activities across Microsoft 365 environments, engage stakeholders, and shape scalable governance processes while advancing information governance and privacy risk reduction.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of project management experience.
• Microsoft 365 implementations or remediation programs desirable.
• experience leading complex projects or workstreams, ideally within data governance, information management, privacy or risk management.
• strong understanding of data management principles, including information governance, data ownership, retention and privacy risk.
• proven ability to coordinate technical project delivery while effectively engaging business stakeholders.
• experience working within complex, decentralised organisations with multiple stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead workstream responsible for identifying, assessing and remediating data stored across Microsoft 365 staff environments including Outlook and OneDrive.
• Lead the delivery of a workstream within the Privacy and Resilience Program, ensuring outcomes are achieved on time and to a high standard.
• Coordinate data discovery and remediation activities to identify and reduce large volumes of personal sensitive information held across University systems.
• Develop plan, methodology and process requirements to scale delivery and activities across enterprise.
• Engage with stakeholders to identify data owners, support retention requirements and embed effective information governance practices.
• Coordinate project activities across technical and business teams, managing priorities, risks, dependencies and reporting.
• Work closely with technical and communications specialists to prepare business, drive adoption and deliver data management and governance initiatives.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of privacy, operational risk and information governance frameworks across the University.

Skills

Project management

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Complex project leadership

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Data scanning technologies

Job description

University of Sydney is seeking an experienced Workstream Lead to drive the Privacy and Resilience Program, guiding data governance and privacy practices across a decentralised environment.

You will coordinate discovery and remediation activities across Microsoft 365 environments, engage stakeholders, and shape scalable governance processes while advancing information governance and privacy risk reduction.