Data Protection & Privacy Specialist (Contract)
Location: Jersey City, NJ preferred hybrid
Duration: 3 6 months (Nov 2026 Feb 2027)
Schedule: Full-time, 37 hrs/week, 8:00 AM 5:00 PM
Overview
Join a Privacy Office within a Data Protection and Technology Services team, helping a global financial services infrastructure company meet regulatory and legal data protection and privacy requirements across all lines of business.
Responsibilities
- Stay current on global data privacy laws and regulatory requirements
- Conduct the annual privacy inventory of data and processing activities, including PIAs and DPIAs
- Respond to privacy mailbox inquiries; provide guidance or escalate as needed
- Perform privacy vendor evaluations for third-party onboarding
- Work with business lines to identify privacy risks and controls for new projects and cloud initiatives
- Draft and maintain privacy policies, procedures and guidelines
- Review changes to laws and regulations and assess their impact
- Support privacy training and awareness, Data Subject Access Request procedures and data-leakage monitoring reviews
- Assist with data breach investigations, reporting and trend analysis
- Keep current on emerging technologies (such as AI) and their privacy risks
Qualifications
- 3 4 years of related experience (data privacy, audit, information security or risk management)
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent experience
- Privacy or security certification preferred (CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CISSP or similar)