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Description

Our Regina office is currently looking for an experienced Privacy Paralegal to join our team. While preference is for candidates to work within the Regina office, remote work opportunities are available. This candidate will advance compliance with privacy/data protection and security laws in an innovative, risk-based manner, drawing on knowledge and experience with specific government/industry requirements and best practices.

This position will support our clients engagement with individuals and data protection authorities and policymakers to respond to inquiries from individuals and regulators. Prior experience implementing, maintaining, and supporting a privacy program and managing access request and data breach responses supporting privacy in a legal team is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities include:
- Interpret privacy legislation and process access to information requests for clients under applicable provincial and federal legislation. This involves reviewing and clarifying requests, determining allowable release of information, coordinating collection of all responsive records, redactions of records, and preparing communications.
- Deliver industry expertise in privacy through client training, interactions, reports, management presentations and the creation of high-quality deliverables
- Coordinate fulfilment of individuals/data subjects rights requests (access, rectification, deletion, etc.).
- Assist with responses to privacy regulators in the applicable jurisdiction for reviews pursuant to applicable provincial or federal legislation.