Head of Independent Trust Center | Informatiker (m/w/d)

Job Summary

This is a highly strategic leadership role responsible for establishing, operating, and continuously developing the Independent Trust Center at the University Hospital Münster. The primary objective is ensuring the legal and data protection-compliant use of personal health data for both patient care and research, particularly adhering to the new Health Data Use Act (GDNG) and GDPR. Day-to-day responsibilities include providing technical and organizational leadership, implementing identity management and data deduplication, and designing and operating pseudonymization and anonymization procedures, including for image data. The successful candidate will advise researchers on compliant data flows, manage the internal research register, and collaborate closely with executive management, IT, and data protection officers. This position offers the opportunity to shape a new central governance unit with a high degree of professional independence and strategic importance within a highly regulated medical research environment.