Title: Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist
Open positions: 1
Location: Hybrid - Toronto area - 2/3 days per week at the office.
Duration:12 months, renewable.
Start date: as soon as possible.
Responsibilities
- Conduct privacy impact assessments for medium to high complex initiatives.
- Develop privacy policies and procedures.
- Identify and assess privacy risks.
- Provide privacy advisory and support to business teams.
- Lead and/or participate on OH, regional or provincial committees or project teams as the privacy Subject Matter Expert.
- Identify privacy requirements.
- Develop strong relationships with various internal and external stakeholders to foster a culture of privacy
- Respond and provide advice and legislative interpretation for information and access requests, consent management requests, complaints or inquiries, appeals and privacy issues under PHIPA and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
- Support privacy program projects and activities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Privacy Office.
- May be required to support investigating privacy incidents, patient inquiries, and privacy requests of any kind.
- Develop and deliver privacy training.
- Other duties as required.
Skills and Experience:
- Minimum 3 years’ health privacy experience conducting privacy impact assessments (PIAs) on medium high complexity projects.
- Minimum 5 years’ direct operational level privacy experience in a health sector and/or IT environment or both.
- Familiarity with prescribed entity and prescribed person requirements under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), and the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner’s Manual for the Review and Approval of Prescribed Persons and Prescribed Entities.