Privacy Analyst | Data Protection Officer

Role overview

Privacy program and assessments

• Monitor the privacy and data-protection program and assess business processes involving personal data.
• Conduct privacy and data-protection impact assessments; identify risks and control gaps; maintain risk registers and remediation plans.
• Review policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, and internal controls, and monitor relevant regulatory changes.
• Maintain data maps and records of processing; assess data lifecycle, retention, and deletion practices.

Operations and stakeholder support

• Assess third-party vendors and review data-processing agreements, privacy clauses, contracts, and information-sharing arrangements.
• Support data-subject requests and coordinate privacy-incident and personal-data-breach response.
• Review new products and technologies for privacy; work with IT and Information Security on privacy controls and privacy-by-design.
• Prepare reports and management updates, deliver employee awareness training, and support audits and international-transfer guidance.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Information Privacy, Compliance, Information Security, Business, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Previous experience in privacy, data protection, compliance, information governance, risk management, or a similar role.
• Knowledge of privacy principles, applicable data-protection laws, privacy frameworks, data governance, and privacy-by-design.
• Experience with privacy assessments, data mapping, risk assessments, or compliance reviews; understanding of data lifecycle and information security.
• Strong analytical, investigative, communication, stakeholder-management, organizational, and project-management skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Privacy-incident response experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with GRC, privacy-management, compliance, or data-governance platforms and enterprise data environments is advantageous.
• CIPP, CIPM, CIPT, CDPO, or equivalent privacy certifications are advantageous.

Benefits and development

• The employer offers benefits, professional development, and exposure to enterprise privacy programs and digital transformation initiatives.
• Support is available for relevant privacy, compliance, legal, and professional certifications.