Data Privacy Counsel
Main Job Responsibilities
- You will undertake privacy
program remediation activities, conduct data audits to ensure compliance
and provide advice on the impact of data protection efforts.
- You will conduct Data Protection
Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and undertake the assessments following data
privacy laws.
- You will identify areas of non or
partial compliance with privacy law and rectify any issues.
- You will support implementation
of essential elements of the Data Protection legislation, such as the
principles of data processing, data subjects’ rights, data protection by
design and by default, records of processing activities, security of
processing, and notification and communication of data breaches.
- You will review our policies
following Data Protection Regulation and codes of practice.
- You will maintain comprehensive
records of all data processing activities conducted by our company,
including the purposes of all processing activities.
- You will develop guidelines and
templates clauses and contracts for management of several team members and
relationships relating to processing of personally identifiable
information.
- You will raise awareness,
brainstorm internal communications and training plans and provide data
protection advice and support for members of staff.
- You will develop external
communication plan for privacy awareness for third parties and partners.
- You will support in management
and administration of privacy software and data incident response and data
breach notification procedures.
- You will monitor industry best
practice and trends for privacy and consumer protection to keep training
material up to date.
- You will identify and use
opportunities to improve the quality of data privacy processes and
standards.
- Promote a culture of data
protection compliance across all units of the organization and suppliers
involved in processing personal data.
- Support special projects for our
company, including privacy certification, audits, new market expansion,
legal & privacy compliance.
- Help with data privacy and
consumer protection related due diligence, queries for transactions and
from team members.
Experience/ Skills & Competencies/ Licenses & Certifications/ Education Required
- Over five (5) years’ experience
working in data protection or privacy compliance.
- Qualified lawyer
- Experience running data privacy
operations including data privacy impact assessments, transfer impact
assessments, vendor assessments, risk management.
- Experience with data processing
operations, including information systems, data security and data
protection needs.
- Expertise on Data Protection laws
across M-KOPA markets.
- Privacy Related Professional
certification (CIPP, CIPT, PECB IEC/ISO 27001, 27701 Implementer or
Auditor) an added advantage.
How to Apply
