Privacy Specialist
🚀 About the Role
We’re looking for a Privacy Specialist to join a major data resilience program, focused on improving how sensitive data is classified, governed, and managed.
This is a highly advisory role – you won’t be hands-on technical or acting as a lawyer. Instead, you’ll guide how the organisation approaches privacy, data classification, and risk, ensuring decisions are practical, compliant, and defensible.
You’ll work closely with an M365 Specialist, forming a partnership between technical delivery and privacy governance.
🎯 What You’ll Be Doing
- Define and guide the data classification approach across the organisation
- Lead and deliver Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs/DPIAs) end-to-end
- Help shape and uplift privacy frameworks, policies, and handling rules
- Advise on privacy risks, controls, and mitigation strategies
- Support decisions on how sensitive data should be managed, retained, or removed
- Ensure all decisions are clearly documented and audit-ready
- Engage regularly with Architecture and the Chief Data Officer (CDO)
🧠 What You’ll Bring
Must-have:
- Strong experience in privacy, data protection, or risk/compliance
- Proven experience delivering PIAs/DPIAs end-to-end
- Ability to translate privacy requirements into clear, practical recommendations
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across business and technical teams
Nice-to-have:
- Experience in government or higher education environments
- Exposure to data governance frameworks (classification, policies, controls)
- Experience working alongside data, security, or architecture teams
💡 Why Apply?
- True advisory role with influence on privacy frameworks and strategy
- Work closely with senior stakeholders, including CDO and Architecture
- Partner with technical specialists to drive real outcomes
- Long-term contract