Description

What this job is about
As a Policy and Data Privacy Specialist, you will ensure the One Washington program audits, monitors and complies with state privacy policies and laws. You will collaborate with the data manager, chief data officer, organizational change management director, communications director, senior security architect, and chief information security officer. These collaborations must prioritize and support data confidentiality, integrity through planning, analysis, development, and maintenance of the new Workday system.

If you have a passion for innovation, modernization and future-oriented goals, join our One Washington Team. This position will directly influence how to implement and configure important technology projects that state government agencies use. These projects significantly impact how all branches of state government, institutions of higher education and businesses that sells goods and services to the state can better serve Washingtonians.

Gov. Jay Inslee has tasked this group with one of the largest and most transformative information technology projects in Washington state history. The One Washington Team’s main objective is to modernize and enhance outdated technology systems that state agencies have used for decades without much improvement — such as the state’s core finance, procurement, budget, and human capital management functions. This project will help bring Washington into the present and prepared for the future with live and on-demand data.

Who we are

Our work at the Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as a crucial part of the decision-making that the governor, Legislature and state agencies do each year. As an employee of OFM, you will be part of a team of dedicated professionals who work hard every day to provide the vital information and services they need to serve the people of Washington.

If playing a key role in supporting and improving state government matters to you, you’ve found the right place.

What we offer our employees

We support the following values in the workplace:

• Foster an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to hire, cultivate and retain a competitive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
• Offer telework and remote work opportunities, when possible, by offering work tools that promote creative collaboration, drive efficiency, and best suit the important work we do whether you live five minutes from our work building or work elsewhere in the state.
• Encourage a healthy life/work balance by offering flexible/alternative work schedules, wellness activities, mobile arrangements and telework opportunities.
• Offer an Infants at Work Program to promote parent and infant bonding, parental well-being and healthy infant development. Depending on your job duties, work location and supervisor approval, eligible employees who are new mothers, fathers or legal guardians can bring their infant (six weeks to six months) when they return to work.

See our Benefits page for more information.

Duties

What you'll do:

• Provide high level IT expertise and technical guidance on privacy to organization administrators and the Executive Sponsor.
• Monitor and test systems for compliance with policies, roles and data flows.
• Manage public record retention including implementation, destruction, and correction of personal data.
• Develop, interpret, and apply policies and procedures governing the overall delivery of privacy.
• Analyze practical situations and apply knowledge of IT disciplines. Meet the specialized needs of the organization.
• Plan projects to improve consistency in privacy practices—including interpretation, compliance and adherence to applicable legal requirements—and minimize exposure to liability.
• Recommend, develop, implement, and oversee corrective action and mitigation efforts to address deficient practices and improve privacy and confidentiality compliance.
• Collaborate with the Office of Financial Management (OFM) and Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Privacy Officers to write policy.
• Track privacy breaches within One Washington and work with IT Security and Office of Cyber Security (OCS) through closure.
• Conduct Privacy Impact assessment (PIA) at the beginning of each One Washington phase. Prioritize, resolve and monitor risks.
• Review and maintain the One Washington Privacy Plan.
• Create and maintain privacy language on Workday system.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution with contemporary study of privacy, public records, cybersecurity, IT Management, computer science, or related data governance or data management.*
• Seven years of experience and proficiency in Enterprise Level Applications and ERP access management, risk analysis, security assessments and vulnerability analysis.
• Demonstrated knowledge of privacy laws in the U.S. and core concepts central to privacy management and data governance.
• Demonstrated ability to assume leadership and work independently.
• Experience working with committees or workgroups effectively while coordinating activity toward shared goal.
• Demonstrated ability to perform regulatory analysis, assess implications and provide multiple recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience in presentation and public speaking skills.
• Ability to think strategically and identify proactive measures to strengthen privacy program.
• Experience with applying research and analysis, and program evaluation.
• Proficient knowledge of project planning and management techniques, tools and resources, including PowerPoint presentation, Excel spreadsheet utilization, Access database development, Visio, MS Word software application, and any other related technology.

• Additional two years of relevant professional experience may substitute for the educational requirement.

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (Masters or Juris Doctorate) with contemporary study of privacy, public records, cybersecurity, IT management, computer science, or related data governance or data management field.

Supplemental Information

Application Process:
How to Apply
Interested? We would love to hear from you. Click “Apply” at the top of this page to start your application (you can save the application and come back to it, if needed).

Please include the following along with your application:

• Letter of interest: describing your specific qualifications about this position.
• Resume: that details your applicable experience and education.
• References: at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.

We will directly contact the top candidates to interview for this position. Because we base our selection on the information you provide, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills and abilities that address the required and desirable qualifications we described above.

Questions:
For questions about this recruitment or to request reasonable accommodation in the application process, please email Janet at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6388.

The Office of the Governor is an equal opportunity employers. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of disability, persons over 40 years of age, and disabled and Vietnam-era veterans are encouraged to apply.