SENIOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICER (Temporary Job Opening), P5

Overview

Leads and directs a team in evidence management, information systems, and digital support. Designs, implements, and enforces information governance policies. Leads the strategy for technology and innovation within the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Translates operational needs into strategies, workflows, and technological capabilities.
• Defines priorities, workplans, and service standards.
• Oversees the delivery, maintenance, and improvement of information systems and digital expertise.
• Removes impediments to service delivery.
• Provides professional leadership and mentoring.
• Participates in recruitment and training development.
• Designs, implements, and enforces Information Governance policies.
• Ensures confidentiality, integrity, availability, value, and security of information and evidence assets.
• Defines processes for collection, transfer, classification, validation, protection, and retention of information and evidence.
• Identifies and implements risk-reducing opportunities for data acquisition.
• Ensures compliance with information governance and cyber security policies.
• Communicates and promotes information governance values.
• Establishes, manages, and reports the budget for information systems.
• Defines the digital support strategy.
• Plans and directs information technology projects.
• Leads technological changes and directs change management procedures.
• Engages external stakeholders and partners.
• Assesses the need for new products and technologies.
• Coordinates needs assessments for information systems and oversees procurement specifications.

Required Experience

A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible work experience in law, investigations, or technology is required. Experience with innovative or emerging techniques in closed and open source investigation, data protection, information security, evidence acquisition and eDiscovery is required. Experience conducting technology needs assessments, prioritization of product backlogs, evaluating and procuring software is desirable. Experience creating and managing team of investigation technology professionals within a startup context—including familiarity with conflict resolution amidst a creative environment is desirable. Experience forging partnerships and collaboratively working with the private sector, government agencies, civil society, and constituents, to address complex challenges is desirable.

Qualifications

Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent degree) in law, human rights, criminal justice, information systems management, database administration, computer science, business administration, or a related area. A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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