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• Exciting opportunity to work with a newly created team and contribute to a culture of privacy excellence
• Ongoing full-time opportunity
• Location: Parramatta/ Negotiable
• Clerk Garde 11/12, Salary relative to experience and ranges from $139,787.00 to $161,663.00 + super

What’s in it for me?

Join our team for a fantastic culture with dynamic collaboration and genuine long-term career support. We offer flexibility in work arrangements, diverse and fulfilling assignments, and prioritize work/life balance and wellbeing with initiatives like flex leave and access to support programs. Additionally, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and empowered to succeed.

The Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure (DPHI) is seeking an experienced Manager, Privacy to lead and manage a newly created privacy team to ensure the strategic management and compliance of privacy functions across the department. This role involves managing complex privacy issues, enhancing the department’s privacy framework, and promoting best practices in privacy compliance. You will also represent the department in various forums and manage access to personal and health information in accordance with relevant legislation.

About this role:

• Manage complex and sensitive privacy complaints and breaches, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Enhance and maintain the department’s privacy framework, addressing systemic and contentious issues.
• Promote privacy compliance through information campaigns and training.
• Represent the department at the Information and Privacy Commission and other public forums.
• Manage access to personal and health information under privacy legislation.

For more information read the full Role Description: Manager, Privacy

What you will bring to the role

• Ability to develop methods for handling complex and sensitive privacy issues.
• Strong understanding of legislative and policy requirements related to privacy, particularly within NSW.
• Capability to develop and implement cost-effective solutions for privacy compliance.
• Effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders to provide strategic advice and develop policies.
• Experience working with privacy technologies, incident response procedures, and privacy impact assessment tools.

What is an essential requirement:

Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or equivalent experience working in a similar role.

About us

The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) improves the liveability and prosperity of NSW. To achieve this, we: create vibrant, productive spaces and precincts; manage lands, assets and property effectively and deliver affordable and diverse housing. We strive to be a high-performing, world-class public service organisation that celebrates and reflects the full diversity of the community we serve and builds the cultural capability of our department to improve outcomes with and for Aboriginal people, communities and entities. 

We are an inclusive and accessible workplace, where your individual contributions are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to feel a sense of connection and belonging. DPHI supports various employee affinity groups, practices flexible working, offers job share and workplace adjustments.

Join us

If excited by the information above, we look forward to receiving your application, including a copy of your resume and cover letter expressing your interest and suitability for the role.

Applications close Wednesday, 20 Nov 2024, 11:55PM

Should you require further information about the role please contact Cameron Davies on cameron.davies@planning.nsw.gov.au

A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.

Please note to be eligible to apply for this position you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, or hold a valid Australian working Visa for the duration of the appointment. 

If we can make adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team on Diversity@DPIE.nsw.gov.au If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander check out our Aboriginal guide to applying for a role.