- Develop privacy impact assessments of the Ministry's optimization of the provincial Immunization Repository and other provincial repositories and the COVaxON solution (this includes initiatives in support of immunization administration, and vaccine distribution and delivery (inventory)
- Lead and provide technical expertise in the development of access and privacy tools to facilitate the development of I&IT requirements, implementation of security mechanisms pertaining to the creation, collection, storage, access, retrieval and disclosure of Personal Health Information (PHI)
- Engage and facilitate privacy related discussions with a wide range of business, IT, legal and privacy stakeholders across the ministry, public health units and Public Health Ontario
- Examine complex program, policy and information system proposals to assess and document business flow and context; perform stakeholder analysis, public/private partnerships, governance structures and feasibility in terms of the protection of Personal Health Information (PHI) collected and retained
- Support projects to ensure compliance with security and privacy best practices, such as the Personal Health Information Privacy Act (PHIPA
- Provide technical and systems advice on legacy systems, internet tools and system interfaces, information, security, technical architecture and data flows to improve protection of Personal Health Information (PHI)
- Provide technical and systems advice on data flows that flow into / originate from the Immunization Repository Optimization Program - Wave 1 & 2 and other relevant provincial repositories and COVaxON solution
- Provide technical and systems advice on data flows to the ministry, Public Health units and other stakeholders
- Develop business processes and procedures that describe information flows associated with new technologies, programs, policies or information systems to illustrate how and by whom Personal Health Information (PHI) will be collected, used, disclosed and retained
- Using system and infrastructure architectures, document physical and/or logical separation of Personal Health Information (PHI) or security mechanisms that prevent improper access to Personal Health Information (PHI) or maintain any required separation
- Provide privacy expertise, consultation, and support to project team members, senior management and colleagues in MOH advising on the legislation and regulations, in an effort to resolve potential legal or privacy problems
- Provide analysis and advice to ministries and clusters regarding the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) and privacy implications, privacy and security concepts, of new information technologies and information systems, and assist institutions in documenting their analysis
- Recommend mitigation strategies and privacy enhancing technologies in accordance with Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) procedures
- Identify, analyze and assess emerging and critical policy issues relating to Freedom of Information (FOI) and Protection of Privacy which may have an impact on PIA methodology
- Formulate policy proposals, recommendations, strategies and options for the project team and Ministry executive to address emerging issues
- Participate and provide PIA feedback on the planning and design of solutions in support of immunization administration and optimization, and vaccine distribution and delivery (inventory)
- Practical knowledge of information technology concepts and processes that impact the protection of personal information (i.e. information management, knowledge management, intellectual property/copyright, information technology and electronic service delivery channels)
- Leading endtoend operational risk assessments, selecting risk methodologies, identifying privacy compliance gaps, priorities, dependencies and redundancies, and recommending process remediation or simplification
- Demonstrated experience and competency to analyze policy proposals to assess / identify I&IT business implications and develop strategic policy planning options and impact analyses for clients
- Demonstrated experience and competency to acquire and apply relevant legislation, regulations and directives to ensure proposed initiatives conform to legislation
RQ07199 Privacy Impact Assessment PIA Specialist - North York, Canada - Randstad Canada
Description
This is a contract position for a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist for our public sector client.Work location:
North York
Duration:
Twelve Months
7.25 hours/day
This is a Hybrid role that requires the candidate to be onsite 3 days of the week (This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non-negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.)
Advantages
Good compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.
Responsibilities
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration
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