Assistant Privacy Officer - Compliance

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Presbyterian is seeking anAssistant Privacy Officer to support the Presbyterian Healthcare Services' Privacy Officer in leading the organization's privacy program, ensuring compliance with privacy laws, protecting sensitive data, and promoting privacy awareness. This role supports privacy leadership with agility amid evolving technologies and public trust dynamics that's strategic and builds cross-functional influence with IT security, Legal, and enterprise business units through coordination of privacy initiatives, health data management and protection, and incident investigation.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Coordinate and implement privacy initiatives: Assist in developing and maintaining privacy policies and programs, draft documents, navigate regulatory complexity while enabling innovation, collaborate and create cross-functional relationships to enable and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

• Manage incident response and compliance: Investigate and support to final resolution data events, incidents, breaches, regulator and state agency inquiries and reviews, conduct privacy audits and assessments through participation within AI and other data governance bodies, data ethics, and support to enable business privacy initiatives.

• Promote training and stakeholder communication: Help develop and deliver privacy strategies required to thrive, conduct privacy compliance assessments, communicate with internal and external stakeholders on privacy matters, keep privacy policies, initiatives, and strategies current with evolving technologies, help shape the future of responsible data use within an environment of evolving privacy laws and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and 7 or more years of experience working in health care or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• CIPP/US certification preferred.

Desired experience includes:

• Knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations related to health care
• Awareness of data privacy and security laws
• Effective and persuasive writing and oral communication skills
• In-house privacy and cybersecurity breach response experience
• Demonstrated interest in privacy and cybersecurity breach response work with emphasis on project management skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with health care providers, workforce members, and other stakeholders
• Motivation to learn and understand technology and forensic investigations to interact effectively with technically skilled individuals and condense key issues and findings for non-technical business team members
• Professional commitment and interpersonal skills necessary to succeed in a collaborative team environment

All benefits-eligible Presbyterian employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits.

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Why work at Presbyterian?
As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers' markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans.

About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.