RQ09676 - Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist - Senior

Flexstaf IT; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services provider in Toronto is seeking a Privacy Assessment Specialist. The role involves leading privacy assessments and ensuring adherence to privacy legislation such as FIPPA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA. Strong communication and leadership skills are essential, as you will be responsible for engaging with teams and drafting documentation. Candidates should possess a technical understanding of privacy risks and experience in the OPS environment. This position offers the opportunity to influence privacy policies and frameworks.

Qualifications

• Experience with privacy legislation including FIPPA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA.
• Experience in conducting privacy assessments.
• Experience with privacy risks and conducting PIAs.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessments involving personal health information.
• Conduct privacy assessments for digital solutions.
• Develop and apply digital identity trust frameworks.

Skills

Privacy legislation knowledge

Strong communication skills

Leadership skills

Technical understanding of privacy risks

Organizational skills

Job description

Must Have:

• Experienced in privacy legislation including Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
• Experienced in conducting privacy assessments involving personal information, citing examples in resume.
• Experienced in leading and conducting privacy assessments with involving online and/or digital solutions.
• Lead and conducted assessments involving personal health information involving third party solutions (e.g. private sector or non-profit application solutions) and/or service integration providers.

40% - Privacy Assessment Experience, Policy and Legislative Requirements

• Experienced in privacy legislation including Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
• Experienced in conducting privacy assessments involving personal information, citing examples in resume.
• Experienced in leading and conducting privacy assessments with involving online and/or digital solutions.
• Lead and conducted assessments involving personal health information involving third party solutions (e.g. private sector or non-profit application solutions) and/or service integration providers.
• Experienced working with policy development teams; reviewing and comparing policies and legislation to make informed recommendations to ensure adequate privacy protections and considerations are addressed with in policy/legislation.

30% - Technical understanding

• Experience with privacy risks and conducting PIAs and the unique security and privacy challenges associated with various platforms.
• Demonstrated experience and familiarity with strong security, encryption and privacy protection approaches to digital solutions, including web based and backend integrations via API or similar approaches.
• Experience with privacy risks and conducting PIAs associated with integration between legacy systems, web applications, digital and cloud-based solutions to obtain, retrieve and synchronize information.
• Familiar with cloud-based technologies including the security and privacy considerations, limitations, and best practices for data protection.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of privacy protection standards and best practices, business, information and security architecture principles and emerging technology related to the protection of privacy and personal information.

20% - Leadership and Communications

• Demonstrated strong communication and engagement skills with ability to lead teams in discovery sessions to elicit details of technical solutions, business processes and/or policies, strong writing skills to document findings, recommendation, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret both technical (e.g. architecture design documents, process flows, state transition diagrams, etc.) and non-technical documentation to conduct assessment of impacts and to develop mitigation strategies.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to manage multiple and concurrent requests in an agile and highly dynamic work environment setting.
• Strong presentation abilities to communicate findings, recommendations, etc. to senior management and executives to inform decision making; able to communicate Page 6 of 12 complex problems/issues in simple terms.

5% - Digital Identity Frameworks and Standards

• Experience in developing, applying and/or evaluating digital identity trust frameworks.

5% - OPS experience

• Prior experience with leading and conducting multiple PIAs in OPS setting/ environment, including demonstrated knowledge and experience with OPS processes, existing templates and expectations to obtain approvals/sign off.