Privacy Consultant | Wellington City

Job Description

Privacy Consultant

Permanent- Full Time

Te whiwhinga mahi/The Opportunity

Welcome to the Resilience and Assurance Services Team.

We're looking for a hard-working, enthusiastic, team player with a “can do” attitude to join our small team to provide support, advice, monitoring and reporting to the Manager, Privacy Assurance.

Core responsibilities include:

• providing quality assurance for impact assessments, requests, and reviews
• supporting Te Tāhū o te Ture privacy planning processes
• delivering relevant training and awareness
• providing consultancy support
• ensuring privacy risks are monitored and managed
• preparing regular privacy reporting

He pūkenga tou/Skills and Experience

We are looking for an individual who is:

• customer focused
• organised
• calm
• focused on problem solving
• motivated

And interested in developing skills and knowledge to:

• Support the implementing of pragmatic privacy standards and policy frameworks
• Promote privacy best practices to optimise service delivery and operations
• Understand All of Government management principles and offerings
• Work in a large or complex government agency

Ko wai mātou/Who we are

At Te Tāhū o te Ture - the Ministry of Justice, we're committed to working together for a fair and safe Aotearoa.

• Credible thought leaders in the development and implementation of Risk Management, Information Security (Physical, Personnel and Cyber), Privacy, Business Continuity and Emergency Management strategies, policies, and practices for the Corporate and Digital Services Group and wider Te Tāhū o te Ture;
• Capable and skilled partners who coach, influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to educate, support, and guide them and help build a more secure and resilient organisation;
• Highly attuned to identify opportunities and threats, and influence strategic decision making to mitigate business risk;
• Assurance leaders who:
• Monitor of practices to encourage consistency, quality, and fitness-of-purpose.
• Evaluate effectiveness, collation of learnings and continuous improvement.
• Use reports on business maturity and business resilience to promote informed decision making.

Our Centre of Excellence model intends to drive greater consistency, quality and accountability for the services we deliver by putting more emphasis on “the way we deliver services”, and on lifting broader capability.

So, if you wish to be part of a team that believes in:

• Moving away from the traditional “compliance driven services” to a value-based service model;
• Promoting knowledge transfer through education and guidance to both “lift the bar” and “help people over it”;
• Using a consultative approach as a mechanism to positively surface the unknown with greater focus on coaching, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

 We invite you to be part of a team that is focused on empowering people to succeed and delivering high quality consulting services that add real value to our customers by helping manage their business risk.

Joining Te Tāhū o te Ture means you will become part of an organisation that welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities and religions. 

He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu/Why you will enjoy working here

Benefits:

• Contributions to prescriptions for glasses
• Online professional development portal
• Access to a variety of inclusive and proactive networks, including Pasifika, Māori, Rainbow and Women's.
• Free and confidential counselling sessions

Utu ā-tau/Salary

The appointing salary for this role will be between $70,518 - $97,908. Appointing salary will be based on skills and experience.

Tono mai/How to Apply

To apply, click the Apply button below to be directed to our Careers Website. You can view a detailed position description here, as well as complete an online application form by attaching your CV and cover letter.

Applications close on the 29th of September; however, we will be reviewing CVs as they come in and inviting successful candidates to interview before the close date.

If you have any questions, please contact recruitment@justice.govt.nz

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