Senior Privacy Officer

• Labour hire contract until June 2025.
• Brisbane CBD based, 1 – 2 days WFH available.
• Enjoy contractor benefits through Talent, join the family today.

Your new company:

The position is located in the ITB Privacy and Safer Technologies directorate and is within the privacy team.

The Privacy Team provides high level privacy advice to corporate and regional business units. 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.

Your new role:

Reporting to the Director, Privacy and working collaboartively as part of the wider privacy team. This role will see you take responsibility across the below deliverables:

• Contribute to the management, investigation and reporting of privacy complaints and privacy breaches within the department.
• 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 to ensure privacy management practices are undertaken in accordance with this guidance and relevant legislation, regulation and industry better practice.
• 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.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Extensive working knowledge of state and federal privacy legislation, and demonstrated knowledge in the delivery of privacy management better practice.
• Experience identifying privacy risk and privacy risk assessment, development of risk mitigation strategies.
• Experience managing client complaints and expectations in a statutory compliance environment
• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively under pressure, handle competing priorities, analysing complex issues and providing high level advice and meeting externally imposed deadlines.
• 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.
• Knowledge or ability to rapidly acquire knowledge of proposed changes to Queensland Privacy legislation.

How to Apply:

To submit your application, please follow the ‘Apply Now’ prompts. If you would like to discuss this opportunity or your career aspirations in more detail please don’t hesitate to contact Steph Rose (07) 3031 4500 or steph.rose@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion today.

Applications closing Sunday, 19th January.