Health Privacy & Security Consultant - Edmonton, Alberta (Hybrid)

Health Privacy & Security Consultant

Location: Edmonton, Alberta (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8 hours/day

Role Overview

"Navitas Partners, LLC" is seeking a Senior Business Consultant with strong expertise in privacy, security, and information governance within the healthcare sector. The ideal candidate will have practical experience ensuring compliance with health information legislation and applying privacy-by-design principles in complex, enterprise-scale digital health environments.

This role supports enterprise privacy and security governance functions, ensuring adherence to applicable legislation, policies, and security directives while enabling the successful delivery of digital health initiatives.

The consultant will work closely with privacy offices, program teams, and technical stakeholders to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate privacy risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring all deliverables meet regulatory and organizational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide privacy and security advisory support for digital health and eHealth initiatives
• Partner with privacy and information governance teams to design and implement compliant frameworks and processes
• Lead the creation, maintenance, and updates of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
• Perform privacy and security risk assessments, including threat and risk analysis for new and emerging technologies
• Ensure compliance with applicable health information legislation, policies, and security standards
• Support governance processes including intake reviews, monitoring activities, and participation in governance forums
• Coordinate privacy and security activities across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams
• Develop privacy and security guidance documents, templates, and training materials
• Deliver training sessions to enhance privacy-by-design awareness and capability across teams
• Support responsible AI initiatives by providing privacy and security guidance for emerging technologies
• Advise project teams on secure handling of sensitive health information
• Align privacy and security practices with enterprise architecture, policies, and regulatory requirements

Required Experience & Skills

• Extensive experience in privacy, security, or information governance within healthcare or public sector environments
• Strong understanding of health information privacy legislation and regulatory frameworks
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining PIAs and security/risk assessments
• Experience working within enterprise digital health or eHealth ecosystems
• Strong knowledge of risk management and privacy-by-design principles
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and facilitation skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment

For more details reach at resumes@navitassols.com

About Navitas Partners, LLC: It is a certified WBENC and one of the fastest-growing Technical / IT staffing firms in the US providing services to numerous clients. We offer the most competitive pay for every position. We understand this is a partnership. You will not be blindsided and your salary will be discussed upfront.