Description:
Job Summary:Provide advice and counsel as an experienced subject matter expert in their relevant area, but also on broader legal issues to protect the reputation and business interests of the Institute. Help ensure the Institute complies with all relevant laws and regulations. Provide legal advice of more complex or specialized legal activities, counseling and advice primarily to management on legal problems of a complex nature, education and training within area of expertise to functional or operational area managers to ensure their activities comply with law, regulation and policy. Provide legal advice within areas of expertise to area managers to ensure their activities, policies, business practices, and transactions comply with all relevant laws and regulations. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance and providing feedback, and making pay recommendations. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Institute executive management and department heads, research and academic faculty, cooperative organizations, Institute staff, opposing counsel, and representatives of various regulatory agencies. This position typically will advise and counsel: Iower-level counsel, faculty, staff. This position will supervise: assigned staff.
Responsibilities:
- Job Duty 1 Provide advice and counsel to Institute management, executive leadership and stakeholders on privacy matters. Independently determine the potential impact to campus and d recommend
- actions.
- Job Duty 2 Monitor analyze, report and advise on emerging and any, proposed, or pending changes to existing global and U.S federal and state privacy laws, including FERPA, HIPAA, GDPR and PIPL and AI regulations such as the EU AI Act.
- Job Duty 3 Independently manage targeted privacy projects and perform legal work on privacy matters in coordination and communication with affected stakeholders, including support of those negotiating data privacy documents, such as DPAs, SCCs and other documents. Maintain and update a comprehensive privacy policy and standards that adhere to privacy principles, University System Office mandates, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Job Duty 4 Coordinate and support, responses to internal or external queries and audits by regulators, government
- agencies, other authorities or external parties.
- Job Duty 5 Work collaboratively with Cybersecurity team to establish data incident management protocols, perform scenario exercises, and advise on data incidents with external legal counsel input, as appropriate.
- Job Duty 6 Coordinate and manage various projects that may involve other
- teams within the department.
- Job Duty 7 Interact with external counsel and representatives of the state Attorney General office and Board of Regents legal staff as appropriate on pending privacy matters and issues, particularly regulator queries, major data incidents or matters that pose conflicting regulatory requirements or significant risk or business complexities to the Institute.
- Job Duty 8 Partner with other Data Privacy Office members to , develop and facilitate campus-wide and role specific education and data privacy training and supporting tools, processes, FAQs, etc.
- Job Duty 9 Provides leadership and guidance to assigned staff as first-level supervisor.
- Job Duty 10 Perform other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
Educational requirements:
Juris Doctorate from an accredited school
Other Required Qualifications
Member of the Georgia Bar or ability to become licensed to practice law in Georgia within twelve months of hire.
Required Experience:
Seven to nine years of job related experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Experience:
Previous experience leading or coaching lower level counsel. CIPP-US or CIPP -EU certification strongly preferred
Proposed Salary
170,000 Annually - Based on education and experience.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
Skills in data privacy. Legal experience in a large public research university, state government or multinational corporate.
USG Core Values
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.