Location:
Remote (Canada)
Employment Type:
Freelance, with full-time opportunity
Salary:
Project-based fee based on experience and qualifications
Reports To:
Project Manager
Department:
Privacy, Governance & Strategic Communications
CliniQPath is a Canadian communication and learning firm helping organizations transform complex information into clear, practical, and evidence-informed solutions.
We work across healthcare, government, education, business, and nonprofit sectors—supporting organizations with strategic communication, learning design, technical documentation, policies, implementation resources, and specialized consulting expertise.
As organizations increasingly rely on data, digital technologies, and interconnected systems, responsible information management and privacy have become essential to maintaining public trust.
We believe strong privacy practices should do more than satisfy regulatory requirements—they should help organizations use information responsibly, communicate transparently, and build systems people can trust.
About the RoleWe're looking for an experienced Privacy Consultant to join CliniQPath's growing network of specialized professionals.
This role is suited to someone who understands how privacy legislation, organizational policy, data governance, technology, and real-world operations intersect.
You’ll support privacy-focused projects that may involve healthcare information, government programs, research data, digital platforms, multi‑stakeholder environments, and emerging technologies.
Depending on the engagement, you’ll work with organizational leaders, privacy teams, legal and policy professionals, technology teams, researchers, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to identify privacy risks and develop practical approaches for managing them.
What You’ll Do- Provide strategic privacy guidance and advice to clients and project teams.
- Conduct and/or support Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs).
- Identify privacy risks and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
- Develop, review, and update privacy policies, procedures, guidelines, and governance documentation.
- Support the development and review of data‑sharing and information‑sharing agreements.
- Interpret privacy requirements and translate them into practical organizational processes.
- Support privacy program development, implementation, and continuous improvement.
- Develop privacy breach response procedures, guidelines, and supporting resources.
- Support privacy considerations associated with health information, research data, digital systems, and emerging technologies.
- Advise on data minimization, access, retention, disclosure, anonymization, and responsible information use.
- Collaborate with legal, technology, security, research, policy, and operational stakeholders.
- Develop privacy education, training, communication materials, and practical job aids.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings, working groups, committees, and privacy reviews.
- Support organizations in embedding privacy considerations into programs, projects, technologies, and organizational decision‑making.
- Monitor evolving privacy legislation, regulatory guidance, technology, and data‑governance practices.
- Can translate complex privacy requirements into practical recommendations.
- Thinks critically about privacy risk rather than approaching compliance as a checklist.
- Understands the relationship between privacy, technology, governance, policy, and organizational operations.
- Is comfortable working with multidisciplinary and senior stakeholder groups.
- Has excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Can develop clear and defensible privacy documentation.
- Is confident facilitating privacy discussions and…
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