Data Protection and Privacy Specialist
Job Location:
Jersey, NJ - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Posted:
25 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline:
22 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Position: Data Protection and Privacy Specialist
Location: Jersey- preference- hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
The impact you will have in this role:
Being a member of the Data Protection and Technology Services team this role will support the efforts of the Privacy Office to ensure Clients adherence to regulatory and legal data protection and privacy requirements supporting all lines of businesses and across all functional areas of Client and its companies globally.
What Youll Do
Sounds Like You
Location: Jersey- preference- hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
The impact you will have in this role:
Being a member of the Data Protection and Technology Services team this role will support the efforts of the Privacy Office to ensure Clients adherence to regulatory and legal data protection and privacy requirements supporting all lines of businesses and across all functional areas of Client and its companies globally.
What Youll Do
- Keep abreast of and maintain a current understanding of global data privacy laws and regulatory requirements that apply to Client and its companies.
- Conduct Clients annual privacy inventory of data and processing activities performing PIA and DPIAs.
- Manage and respond to inquiries received in the privacy mailbox and provide consultation guidance or escalate as needed.
- Perform privacy vendor evaluations to assess regulatory and privacy risks and practices associated with the onboarding of third parties.
- Liaise with business lines to identify privacy risk areas and determine appropriate privacy controls to limit privacy risks to new projects cloud hosing initiatives and/or special projects.
- Draft and/or maintain Client privacy policies procedures and guidelines as needed. Assist other business lines with policies that may have an impact to individuals privacy (e.g. employee handbook technology usage social media policy etc.)
- Assist in the review of changes to applicable laws and regulations and interpretation of impact to Client and its companies.
- Assist with annual privacy training and ongoing awareness program.
- Assist with procedures to address Data Subject Access Requests
- Assist with the annual review of monitoring policies to prevent the loss of personal data/data leakage prevention monitoring.
- Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalate appropriately.
- Keep current on evolving technologies (e.g. AI) and the associated risks and impact to data protection.
- Assist with data breach investigations management reporting and trend analysis impacting data privacy and/or client confidentiality.
- Support other daily program elements as needed.
Sounds Like You
- Minimum of 3-4 years of related experience
- Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent experience
- Relevant industry certification (e.g. CIPM CIPP EU/A/C/US CISSP etc.)
- Relevant experience to include (e.g data privacy audit information security risk management etc.)
Required Experience:
IC