Privacy Officer

Please note this role will work in a hybrid environment. The successful candidate must be located near a Canadian Blood Services site and will be working a mixture of on-site and off-site work based on the parameters for our operations to meet the needs of our donors, our staff and our communities. Currently, employees are expected to have an in-person presence for at least 40% of their work time. This requirement may vary depending upon circumstances.

Job category: Legal
Job posting ID: 7656

​Employment status: Regular full-time
Position's anticipated start date: 2025-10-06 

Classification: PTS/MGT/IT B
Salary/Rate of pay: $89,894 - $108,493

Application deadline: 2025-09-14 

• This external job posting may close earlier than the advertised deadline. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

Application requirements:

• Your up-to-date resume.
• We recommend you save a copy of the job posting for reference throughout the recruitment process.

Do you currently work for Canadian Blood Services? All employees must apply via the internal career page.

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About the role

Canadian Blood Services is looking for a Regular Full-time Privacy Officer to join our dynamic Legal division.

The Legal division provides legal, privacy, ethics, governance, policy, and risk leadership across Canadian Blood Services’ product and service areas.
 

In this role, you will contribute to the evolution of Canadian Blood Services Privacy Program by leveraging a combined expertise in both privacy legislation and best practices, and Information systems security, providing seasoned, specialized subject matter expertise on a broad variety of organizational projects and strategic initiatives.

Formula for success

• Leveraging your expertise in privacy law and best practices, you will analyze and assess compliance, and apply subject matter expertise to provide solutions and improvements that mitigate identified risks.
• Proactively leveraging your problem-solving abilities, you will identify trends, vulnerabilities, or recurring issues, determine the need for review and revision of privacy policies, notices, or business practices, and develop solutions to mitigate risk.
• Drawing on your ability to design and sustain programs, you will develop and maintain the privacy program for Canadian Blood Services and monitor performance.
• With your talent for creating impactful learning experiences, you will develop, implement, and update privacy training for all employees and volunteers in support of a privacy-aware corporate culture.
• By applying your subject matter knowledge, you will provide guidance on privacy to internal stakeholders and promote/influence adoption of privacy compliance by identifying requirements, safeguards, solutions, and best practices.
• Applying your research and analytical skills, you will conduct environmental scans and review privacy laws, standards, regulator guidance, and decisions to facilitate organizational adaptation and compliance.
• Using your strong analytical and consultative skills, you will respond to access requests for personal information in the custody and control of Canadian Blood Services, consulting with management and subject matter experts as required.
• Through your professionalism and relationship-building skills, you will represent Canadian Blood Services in liaising with provincial privacy regulators and other organizations in privacy compliance reviews or investigations.
• Harnessing your ability to assess risk and recommend safeguards, you will conduct environmental scans and associated risk analysis to identify organizational risk exposures and collaborate on implementation of appropriate mitigations.

Desired education and skills

• Completion of a degree in a relevant discipline such as law, privacy, technology, computer science, information management or business.
• Up to seven (7) years combined, progressive related experience in the areas of privacy and data protection.
• In-depth understanding of privacy, data protection and data management concepts, principles, operations, legislation and regulations.
• Experience or familiarity with conducting privacy impact assessments on a range of operational projects, including emerging technologies. 
• Experience responding to access to information requests and experience investigating and responding to privacy incidents.
• Industry recognized privacy designation such as Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C), Canadian Institute of Access and Privacy Professionals (CIAPP) or Certified
  Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).
• Knowledge of information management or information security is an asset.
• Familiarity with technology and information systems is desirable to appropriately assess privacy risks in response to implementation of new technologies, programs and processes.

What we offer you

• 4 weeks' vacation.
• Annual performance award up to 8%.
• Comprehensive group health, dental and vision benefits for you and your family.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Employee discounts, wellness program, professional resources.

What you can expect

• This role will work in a hybrid environment with requirements to be onsite at Canadian Blood Services location at least 40% of the time/2 days of the week.
• If you are located outside of Ottawa, you may be required to travel to the Head Office in Ottawa 2-4 times a year to attend dept. meetings.  This requirement is subject to change at Canadian Blood Services’ sole discretion.

Diversity and inclusion play a vital role in ensuring health equity for patients across Canada. We are committed to reflecting Canada’s population in our organization and fostering an environment where all employees can be their authentic selves, with equal opportunities to succeed and contribute.  

If this role resonates with you, we encourage you to apply by providing your up-to-date resume. This could be your first step towards a meaningful and inspiring career. Come to work each day knowing that you save lives. 

We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those considered for an interview or those invited to participate in an assessment will be contacted. Emails are sent directly from our system, to ensure you receive them please add donotreply@blood.ca and system@successfactors.com to your safe senders list. 

Applicants who require accommodation should discuss their needs with us.

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