We’re hiring at our location in Doha

DATA GOVERNANCE (PRIVACY AND SECURITY) SPECIALIST

  • Ensure ongoing compliance with the organizations policies and procedures, legal, 
    regulatory, and contractual requirements
  • Ensures the ongoing integration of security and data protection with business 
    strategies and privacy requirements
  • Works closely with operational and support units for ongoing optimal application 
    of technology functionality to protect PHI, including the identity management 
    program
  • Discover data sets and reviewing data sources to identify any gaps in coverage that 
    require additional data collection efforts
  • Responsible for implementing, managing, and enforcing information security 
    derivatives within regulatory mandates to protect PHI and PII
  • Conducts privacy impact analysis to assess the probability of risks occurring and 
    the impact on the organization
  • Developing and implementing data security policies to protect sensitive data from 
    unauthorized access or use
  • Establishing data standards for organization’s database environment, including 
    defining fields and creating rules for data entry and retrieval
  • Reviewing use of data by organization departments to ensure compliance with 
    privacy laws and regulations.
  • Creating reports on data trends across departments within the organization to 
    help identify opportunities for improvement or changes in strategy
  • Collaborating with business managers to ensure that data quality is maintained 
    over time
  • Manage policies on acceptable methods for reporting results and presenting 
    findings to stakeholders
  • Working with IT staff to maintain databases by adding new data or updating 
    existing data sets
  • Manage a database management plan for large scale data analysis projects
  • Performs related duties as assigned by supervisor
  • Monitor and ensure DLP compliance and follow-up with the stakeholders
  • Identify critical privacy risks and recommend corrective steps to address the risks
  • Provide expert advice and educate employees on important data compliance 
    requirements
  • Evaluate the existing data protection framework to identify areas of no or partial 
    compliance and rectify any issues
  • Devise training plans and provide data protection advice to staff members
  • Inform and advise the data controller or data processor on all matters related to 
    data protection
  • Promote a culture of data protection and compliance across all units of the 
    organization
  • Implementing measures and a privacy governance framework to manage data use 
    in compliance with the local privacy laws including developing templates for data 
    collection, assisting with data mapping, and vendor management reviews
  • Working with key internal stakeholders in the review of projects and related data 
    to ensure compliance with local data privacy laws, and where necessary, complete 
    and advise on privacy impact assessments
  • Managing and conducting ongoing reviews of organizations privacy governance 
    framework
  • Monitoring changes to local privacy laws and making recommendations to the 
    Data Privacy / Information Governance program
  • Developing and delivering privacy training to various business functions
  • Conduct data privacy audits
  • Collaborating with the Information Security function(s) to raise employee 
    awareness of data privacy and security issues and providing training on the subject 
    matter

Experience/Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Similar, plus substantial continued 
    education and training in the field
  • 8-12 years of experience in data privacy, protection compliance or related field and 
    expertise in international and local cybersecurity laws and frameworks, data 
    protection and privacy laws, and practices
  • Must have knowledge of cloud environment preferably Azure
  • Preferred to hold CIPP and CDPSE, or other equivalent certification
  • Strong understanding of key Compliance, security and framework models and 
    standards such as ISO 2700X, 27701, 27018, NIST, CIS benchmarks etc.
  • Preferable have worked in Health Care Sector, Advanced Microsoft Office product 
    expertise.
  • Technical knowledge in any unified data governance solution preferably Microsoft 
    Purview
  • Technical knowledge and hands on experience in data protection, data privacy and 
    data discovery tools

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