Privacy Specialists

A Privacy Specialist manages the legal and operational risks around sensitive and critical information assets by assessing business operations on a continual basis, developing the right policies, procedures, and training programs, and overseeing all data agreements. Privacy Specialists might focus on the general operations of a business, or on privacy as it relates to specific projects. The responsibilities of a Privacy Specialist can include:

• Ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection regulations.
• Answering queries on global data privacy processing and protection requirements from internal stakeholders.
• Conducting compliance gap analysis and readiness assessments for upcoming policy changes.
• Creating and maintaining documentation, privacy notices, privacy statements, SOPs, work instructions and guidance notes in cooperation with legal teams.
• Managing any data subject request process that the organization has.
• Collecting and maintaining records of processing activities.
• Preparing reports on regulatory compliance.
• Escalating any potential data breaches for investigation and resolution.