Principal Privacy Officer

3 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department**:
The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About the Role
**As the Principal Privacy Officer, responsibilities include**:

- Identify and make recommendations to address strategic and systemic privacy issues across the department.
- Maintain currency of relevant legislation, caselaw, and skills in order to provide advice to senior stakeholders and departmental staff in relation to privacy management and compliance with the Information Privacy Act 2009 and associated Information Privacy Principles and other relevant privacy and other legislation including but not limited to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
- Develop and maintain privacy and information policy, standards, procedures and guidelines based on State and Federal legislative and regulatory requirements, State Government policy and directives, and industry better practice.
- Maintain and communicate the department's privacy management plan for maturing the department's privacy management practices and identify the impact of any relevant legislative, regulatory or industry best practice changes on the department.

Please view the Role Description for a full list of responsibilities.
**About You**:
As the Principal Privacy Officer, you will work within a supportive team to:

- Provide sound, practical and definitive policy, strategic and operational advice in relation to the department's privacy management and compliance with the Information Privacy Act 2009 and associated Information Privacy Principles and its statutory obligations under relevant privacy frameworks.
- Maintain currency of State and Federal privacy legislation to research, analyse, investigate, manage, and respond to privacy matters including, but not limited to, privacy assessments, breaches and complaints, requests for advice, and the development and delivery of privacy training.
- Supervise other privacy officers and manage some of the operational requirements of our growing privacy team.

**You will receive**:

- 12.75% superannuation;
- Access to salary packaging benefits including novated leasing and bus travel;
- Professional development and learning opportunities;
- Access to flexible working arrangements.

**Interested? To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a a brief letter (2 pages maximum) addressing:

- the requirements as outlined in the sections "Your opportunity" and "Your role" located on the attached Role Description
- why you are interested in and capable of performing the role. This should not be a restatement of your resume, but rather your opportunity to tell us about yourself, highlighting how your experience, skills, knowledge, and personal attributes make you the best person for the job.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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