Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist

Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist

Client: Government Services Integration Cluster

Location: Toronto Ontario – Onsite

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist to lead and support the development of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) for new technologies, digital solutions, business initiatives, policies, and programs. The successful candidate will evaluate privacy risks, ensure compliance with applicable privacy legislation and policies, and provide recommendations to mitigate privacy and security risks associated with the collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of personal information.

The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, legal advisors, security specialists, and project teams to ensure privacy requirements are incorporated into solution design and implementation.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) for digital transformation initiatives, cloud-based solutions, web applications, system integrations, and third-party services.
  
• Assess compliance with provincial, federal, and sector-specific privacy legislation including FIPPA, MFIPPA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA.
  
• Evaluate privacy implications associated with personal information and personal health information (PHI) processing activities.
  
• Identify privacy risks and develop practical mitigation strategies and recommendations.
  
• Review business processes, system architectures, data flows, integration designs, APIs, cloud environments, and security controls to assess privacy impacts.
  
• Develop and document privacy requirements, findings, risk assessments, recommendations, and executive summaries.
  
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops, and information-gathering sessions with business and technical teams.
  
• Analyze legislative, policy, and regulatory requirements and translate them into operational and technical privacy controls.
  
• Collaborate with policy development teams to review and compare legislation, policies, and standards to ensure privacy protections are adequately addressed.
  
• Assess privacy considerations related to third-party vendors, service providers, and cloud-hosted solutions.
  
• Review and analyze data flow diagrams, business process models, architecture diagrams, and technical documentation.
  
• Provide privacy guidance throughout project lifecycles and support privacy-by-design implementation approaches.
  
• Present assessment findings, recommendations, and risk mitigation strategies to senior management and executive stakeholders.
  
• Support development and enhancement of privacy policies, standards, frameworks, methodologies, and assessment templates.
  
• Contribute to privacy awareness initiatives, education programs, and stakeholder training activities.
  

Benefits

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) involving personal information and personal health information.
  
• Strong knowledge of:
  
• Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)
  
• Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA)
  
• Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)
  
• Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
  
• Related regulations, directives, policies, standards, and jurisprudence
  
• Experience leading privacy assessments for online, digital, cloud-based, and integrated technology solutions.
  
• Experience conducting privacy assessments involving third-party vendors, service providers, and health-sector solutions.
  
• Strong understanding of privacy-by-design principles and Fair Information Practices.
  
• Experience evaluating privacy risks associated with:
  
• Cloud technologies
  
• APIs and system integrations
  
• Legacy system modernization
  
• Web applications
  
• Data sharing initiatives
  
• Digital service delivery platforms
  
• Knowledge of security concepts including identity management, encryption, authentication, authorization, data protection, and secure information exchange.
  
• Ability to interpret architecture diagrams, process flows, system documentation, and technical solution designs.
  
• Experience developing risk assessments, mitigation strategies, policies, standards, and procedures.
  
• Strong analytical, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, report-writing, and presentation skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous Ontario Public Sector (OPS) experience conducting PIAs.
  
• Experience using OPS PIA templates, methodologies, and approval processes.
  
• Experience with digital identity frameworks, trust frameworks, and identity assurance models.
  
• Knowledge of records management, information governance, retention, and disposition requirements.
  
• Familiarity with Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) requirements and standards.
  
• Professional certifications such as:
  
• Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)
  
• Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)
  
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  
• TOGAF or Enterprise Architecture certifications
  
• Experience delivering privacy education and awareness training.
  

Desired Experience

• Public sector and government privacy compliance initiatives.
  
• Healthcare, social services, digital identity, or citizen-facing service delivery projects.
  
• Cloud migration and modernization programs involving sensitive personal information.
  
• Privacy assessments for integrated enterprise platforms and multi-stakeholder ecosystems.
  
• Agile project delivery environments and digital transformation initiatives.
  

Key Competencies

• Privacy and Regulatory Compliance
  
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation
  
• Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
  
• Privacy by Design
  
• Stakeholder Management
  
• Policy Analysis and Development
  
• Information Governance
  
• Cloud Privacy and Security
  
• Digital Identity and Trust Frameworks
  
• Executive Communication and Presentation
  
• Business Process Analysis
  
• Data Flow and System Architecture Analysis