Data Privacy Specialist
Al Nahiya Group
- Abu Dhabi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Create and maintain privacy related notices, policies, standards, guidelines and processes
- Conduct assessments, review results and work with stakeholders to mitigate privacy risks across the organization
- Provide deep technical privacy guidance, analysis, and feedback to business leaders, engineers, solutions and application architects
- Help develop, implement and manage processes, internal controls relating to privacy frameworks and offer privacy support to various departments
- Coordinate internal and external audits of privacy systems and procedures to ensure that systematic compliance audits are undertaken and that their findings are reported and acted upon
- Provide ongoing management, content development and oversight of the privacy program, including training, risk management, exception handling and process improvement
- Partner with all key business areas, in particular the IT Security team, to ensure data privacy issues are considered at the outset of new projects, products and initiatives
- Monitor the industry landscape to keep visibility on evolutions, trends, and best practices related to Data Privacy
- Serve as data privacy subject matter expert and develop and implement a compliance plan
- More than 5 years experience in working in data privacy and managing data privacy issues
- Preferred Bachelor's Degree required in Data Management & Governance, Business Administration, Information Systems or another related field
- Expertise in global and European data protection laws and practices and an in-depth understanding of the GDPR
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of data privacy, data handling and data classification
- Capable of conducting data privacy compliance reviews and audits
- Strong attention to detail
- Good communication skills, including the ability to liaise with people across the business