Legal Counsel, Privacy

Job title:

Authorized Counsel, Privateness

Firm

College of Waterloo

Job description

Overview

Reporting to Basic Counsel, the Authorized Counsel, Privateness will present a full vary of authorized providers and authorized steering to senior leaders, colleges, faculties, and administrative models to handle authorized dangers and improve the College of Waterloo’s mission, with a deal with info and privateness associated providers.

The Data and Privateness Workplace and associated duties and accountabilities fulfill the College’s obligations below the Freedom of Data and Safety of Privateness Act (FIPPA).

Obligations

Privateness Management and Strategic Improvement

• Leads a College tradition of knowledge and privateness consciousness in collaboration with different stakeholders
• Supplies experience and instruction associated to entry and privateness info for university-wide tasks, insurance policies, and processes, delivering suggestions for ongoing enchancment
• Fosters efficient working relationships inside the College to help the promotion and growth of entry to info and privateness safety
• Communicates sound and constant recommendation and steering to the campus neighborhood relating to entry and privateness laws and insurance policies primarily based on established ideas and processes
• Represents the College earlier than the Data and Privateness Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)
• Conducts common environmental scans of the regulatory panorama and assess their influence on the College’s privateness program
• Opinions and analyzes data and jurisprudence, case legislation, and precedents
• Proactively develops methods whereas exercising due diligence to keep away from pointless authorized challenges relating to privateness points
• Creates and maintains College processes, procedures, and insurance policies that apply to the gathering, use, and disclosure of private info

Privateness Compliance and Authorized Steering

• Supplies authorized experience associated to relevant provincial, federal, and worldwide privateness legislation
• Investigates, analyzes, and interprets relevant privateness legal guidelines and their interplay with college coverage to make sure compliance
• Opinions agreements and challenge charters associated to the gathering, use and disclosure of private info, offering recommendation and steering on finest practices and potential privateness implications
• Frequently analysis, establish, and supply updates on privateness case legislation, legislative necessities and authorized developments
• Collaborates with Basic Counsel, authorized counsel, and different senior leaders to provoke, develop, implement, and consider insurance policies and procedures that help the College’s compliance with privateness laws and finest practices

Obligations below FIPPA

• Develops and maintains processes and programs that can guarantee efficient responses to requests for entry to data submitted below FIPPA
• Accomplished all privateness entry requests, purposes, queries, assessments, breaches, coaching, and reporting. This consists of inner, exterior, and third-party requests obtained by one other establishments or Ministry
• Assesses third-party requests in collaboration with the Secretariat, VP Educational and Provost, VP Administration and Finance, VP Analysis and Worldwide, Institutional Evaluation and Planning, Communications, and varied different departments frequently
• Advises and helps committees and dealing teams associated to compliance and information breaches
• Manages requests below departmental routine entry insurance policies and facilitate proactive disclosure the place acceptable

Privateness Evaluate and Response to complaints and privateness breaches

• Investigates complaints and privateness breaches, working with varied stakeholders
• Consults with the Basic Counsel relating to entry and privateness issues and issues, and current suggestions relating to selections
• Directs any communication of breach responses in accordance with the response protocols and course of
• Supplies all mandated studies to the Workplace of Data and Privateness Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario
• Leads on-going, concise communication with the Secretariat, VP Educational and Provost, VP Administration and Finance, together with departmental management when breaches happen
• Consults with related stakeholders to determine grievance and breach tips and documentation (Data Safety Companies, Data Stewards, LIS, Communications, Secretariat and many others.)

Threat Identification, Evaluation, and Coaching

• Audits and assess privateness dangers related to college actions and information processing practices
• Opinions threat evaluation requests and handle Privateness Affect Assessments for brand new tasks, programs, and processes
• Identifies and evaluates the extent and probability of dangers to find out their potential influence on offering suggestions
• Opinions and interprets privateness laws to make sure the danger evaluation course of aligns with related privateness legal guidelines, laws, and institutional insurance policies
• Develops methods to mitigate privateness dangers, together with technical, administrative, and university-level measures
• Oversees the training and growth of coaching and consciousness applications and materials for employees, school, and college students, fostering a tradition of information and accountability surrounding information safety and recognition

Operations & Methods Administration

• Supplies direct supervision of the Data Privateness Analyst and the Data Privateness Coordinator, together with coaching, growth, and training
• Maintains up-to-date information and understanding of related privateness laws, updating processes and procedures as adjustments happen
• Creates and maintains written privateness steering for the College
• Leads revisions and proposed new insurance policies and procedures by way of the approval course of
• Oversees the event and upkeep of knowledge frameworks that permit for data-driven selections
• Supervises the gathering and recording of program statistics as required for reporting and put together annual report for the Data and Privateness Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario
• Maintains accountability for data administration

{Qualifications}

• Bachelor of Legal guidelines (L.L.B) or Juris Physician (J.D.) or equal legislation diploma is required.
• Licensed to apply legislation in Ontario and should be a member in good standing of the Regulation Society of Ontario.
• Related skilled designation from the Worldwide Affiliation of Privateness Professionals (IAPP) or different acknowledged skilled physique
• Minimal of 3-5 years’ expertise, training legislation and offering authorized recommendation to complicated organizations
• Robust working information of provincial and federal info and privateness legal guidelines
• 3+ years’ expertise working with entry to info and safety privateness responding to entry requests, privateness complaints, info breaches, and inquiries from the neighborhood
• Mission administration expertise in a posh surroundings
• Increased training or different public sector expertise is an asset.
• Information of a broad vary of authorized issues and of statutory legislation affecting universities
• Intensive information and interpretation of the Private Data Safety and Digital Paperwork Act, the Freedom of Data and Safety of Privateness Act, and the Data and Privateness Commissioner of Ontario, together with laws and laws, and their interaction between them and different associated and related laws
• Vital breadth of information associated to college operations; capability to know college tips, insurance policies, and practices
• Understanding of entry to info and privateness safety issues, and of associated laws and coverage in a college or public sector setting
• Information of the legislative and procedural framework associated to the event, modification, and implementation of statutes, laws, and by-laws
• Clear and demanding pondering, with superior writing and reasoning expertise, persuasiveness
• Can successfully provoke, drive, and handle change initiatives that align with organizational methods, help authorized threat mitigation, and improve operational authorized efficiencies associated to privateness and information
• Battle decision expertise with a capability to proactively establish potential conflicts and help actions to facilitate its decision
• Competent in offering steering and route to help others in fixing complicated conditions affecting the College’s enterprise
• Sound determination maker primarily based on a combination of study, knowledge, expertise and judgement, balancing threat with the probability of prevalence.
• Potential to collaborate throughout inner and exterior boundaries to satisfy widespread targets, enhance outcomes, and help work past the unit
• Potential to make selections and proposals which are clearly linked to the college’s strategic plan
• Efficient influential and consultative expertise with the flexibility to construct sturdy interpersonal relationships
• Potential to adapt to evolving privateness legal guidelines and applied sciences affecting increased training
• Confirmed capability to work independently and resourcefully
• Pushed by equitable, various, and inclusive practices

Fairness Assertion

The College of Waterloo acknowledges that a lot of our work takes place on the normal territory of the Impartial, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our predominant campus is located on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that features six miles on all sides of the Grand River. Our lively work towards reconciliation takes place throughout our campuses by way of analysis, studying, instructing, and neighborhood constructing, and is co-ordinated inside our .

The College values the varied and intersectional identities of its college students, school, and workers. The College regards fairness and variety as an integral a part of tutorial excellence and is dedicated to accessibility for all staff. The College of Waterloo seeks candidates who embrace our values of fairness, anti-racism and inclusion. As such, we encourage purposes from candidates who’ve been traditionally deprived and marginalized, together with candidates who establish as First Nations, Métis and/or Inuk (Inuit), Black, racialized, an individual with a incapacity, girls and/or 2SLGBTQ+.

All certified candidates are inspired to use; nonetheless, Canadians and everlasting residents will probably be given precedence.

The College of Waterloo is dedicated to accessibility for individuals with disabilities. If in case you have any software, interview, or office lodging requests, please contact Human Assets at or 519-888-4567, ext. 45935.

Anticipated wage

$129009 – 161262 per 12 months

Location

Waterloo, ON

Job date

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 23:41:50 GMT

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