Data Protection and Privacy Specialist

Job Title: Data Protection and Privacy Specialist

Job Duration: 3-6 Months Contract

Location: Jersey City, NJ 07310 - Hybrid

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 ***'s adherence to regulatory and legal data protection and privacy requirements, supporting all lines of businesses and across all functional areas of *** and its companies globally.

What You'll Do

• Keep abreast of and maintain a current understanding of global data privacy laws and regulatory requirements that apply to *** and its companies.
• Conduct ***'s 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 *** privacy policies, procedures and guidelines as needed. Assist other business lines with policies that may have an impact to individual's 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 *** 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.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

• Minimum of 3-4 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 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.)