Senior Privacy Officer

Job Description

3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants This range is provided by Davidson. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range A$100.00/hr - A$100.00/hr About the Company Davidson is working with a state government department who are seeking an experienced Senior Privacy Officer. About the Role The 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. 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. About you 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. 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. The Benefits $100 hour + Super (Agency Contractor - PAYG) Contract up to Sept 2025 Brisbane, CBD How to Apply Please apply by uploading your current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact Alana Hunter ( ) and Natalee Thorpe ( ), quoting reference JN -032025-39642. Otherwise, please APPLY ONLINE ! Seniority level Entry level Employment type Full-time Job function Legal Industries Government Administration #J-18808-Ljbffr