Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist - Senior

Remote: 
Hybrid
Contract: 
Work from: 
Toronto (US)

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Job description

Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist - Senior
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Duration: 10 Months

Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Technical Skills
  • 10+ years of experience in the following:
  • Privacy impact assessment methodologies, tools and techniques
  • Application of threat and risk analysis principles, program analysis, business analysis
  • Understanding of policy development to lead or participate in the development of options and strategies on information management and privacy protection
  • Practical knowledge of information technology concepts and processes that impact the protection of personal information (i.e. information management, knowledge management, intellectual property/copyright, information technology and electronic service delivery channels)
  • Practical knowledge of broad political, legal, fiscal, social and governance dimensions to ensure that privacy principles, directives, notices and directions are considered in the development of new programs/initiatives
  • Managing privacy risks in the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Health Information (PHI)
  • Leading end-to-end operational risk assessments, selecting risk methodologies, identifying privacy compliance gaps, priorities, dependencies and redundancies, and recommending process remediation or simplification
  • Implementing information privacy best practices.
Core Skills and Experience
10+ years of experience in the following:
  • Demonstrated experience and competency to resolve complex issues, identify options and make recommendations
  • Demonstrated experience and competency to analyze policy proposals to assess / identify I&IT business implications and develop strategic policy planning options and impact analyses for clients
  • Demonstrated experience and competency to acquire and apply relevant legislation, regulations and directives to ensure proposed initiatives conform to legislation
  • Demonstrated experience and competency to identify and evaluate emerging privacy issues, changes, and trends in current and future that impact government policy directions
  • Experience in program analysis/evaluation techniques to assess the impact of proposed, or new/changed policies/fiscal or governance arrangements for new programs
  • Demonstrated experience and competency to prepare comprehensive reports, options analyses, briefing materials and presentations and propose responses on privacy issues
  • Experience in consultation and negotiation to gain support for policy and program initiatives
  • Demonstrated experience and competency to develop effective relationships with senior management and stakeholders
  • Strong oral and written communications and principles and methods, to draft papers, reports, options analyses, correspondence, briefing notes, speeches, and materials.
General Skills
  • Demonstrated strong leadership and people management skills
  • Exceptional analytical, trouble-shooting, problem solving and decision-making skills
  • Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills
  • Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience
  • Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution
  • Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships
  • Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome
  • Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively
  • A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines
Public sector Experience
  • 5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers
  • Previous Public Sector experience and familiarity with the privacy and de-identification guidelines set by IPC, Government of Ontario IT Standard (GO-ITS), Public Sector Corporate Policy on Protection of Personal Information, and Public Sector Corporate Policy on Record Keeping
  • Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices
  • In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Knowledge of Public Sector I&IT project management methodologies
  • Knowledge and experience with Public Sector or Broader Public-Sector health related projects
  • Knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements
  • Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies
  • Experience with large complex IT Health-related projects
  • Experience with GO-ITS Digital Health standards, and internal branch standards would be an asset.

Required profile

Experience

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