Privacy, FOI & Risk Specialist

About the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)

We’re here to help. When an injury or illness happens on the job, we move quickly to provide wage-loss benefits, medical coverage and support to help people get back to work. Funded by businesses, we also provide no-fault collective liability insurance and access to industry-specific health and safety information. We are one of the largest insurance organizations in North America covering over five million people in more than 300,000 workplaces across Ontario. For more information, visit wsib.ca.

At the WSIB, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• explore many career paths and follow your passion
• continuously learn and grow professionally
• be recognized for the great work you do
• participate in programs that support your health and wellbeing

You’ll also receive a competitive salary and may be eligible to participate in our health and dental plan.

This role requires the successful applicant to commit to an in-office work arrangement up to 5 days a week beginning in 2027.

Salary Grade: N06 From: $80,000.00 To: $100,000.00

Temporary Opportunity up to 12 Months.

Build your privacy, Freedom of Information and Risk while doing work that matters.

WSIB is looking for a detail-oriented professional with a strong foundation and a desire to grow their expertise in Privacy, Freedom of Information and Risk. This is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and build valuable hands-on experience across privacy legislation, Freedom of Information (FOI), privacy breach investigations, and privacy risk management.

You’ll work alongside colleagues and business partners on issues that matter, helping to protect personal information, support transparency, manage privacy risk, and maintain public trust. And you don’t need to have done it all already. If you bring relevant experience, good judgment, and an interest in privacy and access, we’d like to hear from you.

What you’ll have the opportunity to do

• Review and process Freedom of Information requests while developing deeper expertise in applying FIPPA, including exemptions and exclusions.
• Gain exposure to matters involving the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC), including complaints, appeals, mediation, and adjudication.
• Build your investigative experience by supporting privacy incidents and breach investigations, identifying risks, and recommending practical solutions.
• Work with teams across WSIB and provide practical privacy, access and risk guidance on real business challenges.
• Conduct privacy risk assessments and help strengthen privacy practices as programs, processes, and services evolve.
• Contribute to privacy training, guidelines, reporting, and continuous improvement.

Why you’ll want to join us

This is more than an opportunity to process FOI requests. It’s a chance to build a well rounded career in Privacy, Freedom of Information and Risk, while gaining experience across a diverse range of meaningful and evolving work.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Grow your expertise in FIPPA, FOI, regulatory matters, investigations, and privacy risk management.
• Broaden your experience by working with different business areas and supporting a variety of privacy and access matters.
• Build valuable regulatory exposure through work involving the IPC.
• Develop transferable privacy skills in investigation, risk assessment, advisory work, legislation, and stakeholder communication.
• Make a meaningful contribution to protecting personal information, supporting transparency, and maintaining public trust.

What you bring

• 1 to 3+ years of related experience in privacy, FOI/access to information, information management, risk, compliance, or a related area.
• Some knowledge or experience with privacy and access legislation, ideally FIPPA or other Canadian privacy legislation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Sound judgment when working with sensitive and confidential information.
• Initiative and a genuine desire to continue building your expertise in privacy and access.

An asset, but not required

Experience in government or the broader public sector, exposure to the IPC, an IAPP/CIPP certification, or post-graduate education in Privacy, Access to Information, Freedom of Information, or Information Management, Risk, or related discipline would be an asset.

Ready for your next step?

If you have a foundation in privacy, access, information management, risk, or compliance and are looking for an opportunity to expand your experience, deepen your expertise, and grow into a well-rounded privacy professional, we encourage you to apply.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We respect and value the diversity of our people. We strive to create an environment where employees can be themselves and where our differences are celebrated.

We value and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating inclusive experiences for both our employees and prospective employees. We invite all interested individuals to apply. If you require accommodations in order to apply to this position please contact [email protected]. If you are invited to participate in the interview or assessment process, you can advise our Recruiter of your accommodation needs at that time.

Please visit our EDI Vision to learn more about what actions WSIB are taking to advance our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and to support all employees participating and contributing to their full potential

Disclosing conflicts of interest

As public servants, employees at the WSIB have a responsibility to act in an ethical way at all times to create a respectful workplace and maintain public trust. Job applicants are required to disclose any circumstance that could result in a real, potential or perceived conflict of interest. A conflict of interest is any situation where your private interests may impair or be perceived to impair the decisions you make in your official capacity. This may include: political activity, directorship, other outside employment and certain personal relationships (e.g. with current WSIB employees, customers and/or stakeholders). If you have any questions about conflict of interest obligations and/or how to make a disclosure, please contact the Talent Acquisition Centre at [email protected].

Privacy information

We collect personal information from your resume, application, cover letter and references under the authority of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997. The Talent Acquisition Centre and WSIB hiring parties will used this information to assess/validate your qualifications, determine if you meet the requirements of vacant positions and/or gather information relevant for recruitment purposes. If you have questions or concerns regarding the collection and use of your personal information, please contact the WSIB’s Privacy Office at [email protected]. The Privacy Office cannot provide information about the status of your application.

As a precondition of employment, the WSIB requires that prospective candidates undergo a criminal records name check any time before or after they are hired.

To apply for this position, please submit your application by November 20, 2026 at 11:59pm.