Information Governance Officer at Stellenbosch University

Your role:

• SU personal information incident response programme and procedure management: Taking charge of SU¿s personal information incident response programme. The incumbent will coordinate activities to bolster the University's preparedness for data breaches and security issues, and lead the response efforts when incidents arise;
• Information Governance policy and procedure implementation: Collaborating closely with the Deputy Director of Information Governance to implement policies and procedures related to POPIA and PAIA. Providing expert input on policy development, training, and awareness initiatives;
• Compliance framework: Ensuring SU's compliance with access to information (PAIA) and privacy (POPIA) regulations. Monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators related to breach handling, and supporting the establishment of SU's Information Curatorship Programme and Forum;
• Business continuity and disaster recovery: Supporting SU's business continuity, resilience, and disaster recovery efforts. Managing data protection and impact assessment practices to ensure regulatory compliance and institutional resilience;
• Stakeholder management: Building and maintaining strong internal relationships to effectively manage incident response on an operational level.

Essential qualifications:

• At least a bachelor's degree (BA).
• Essential relevant experience:
• At least three to five years' relevant experience.

Operational competencies:

• Technical/professional knowledge, skills and experience;
• Communication skills (the ability to listen and respond effectively to others; to convey information and/or ideas in a written or verbalformat);
• Detail orientation;
• Time management skills;
• Energy/drive;
• Customer service excellence;
• Assertiveness;
• Teamwork;
• Embracing change;
• Accountability;

Desired qualifications:

• Relevant professional qualification (i.e. ISACA, IIA(SA), IAPP, ISC2, CISA).

Desired work experience:

• Two years' relevant experience within the higher education or health sector.