Description:
Job Summary:Serve as an experienced subject matter expert in the Data Privacy Office. Help ensure the Institute complies with all relevant data protection laws and regulations. Provide advice, counsel and training regarding privacy requirements, best practices, and strategies for managing risk. Serve as a point of contact to escalate matters of a complex nature to ensure business and functional unit activities comply with data privacy laws, regulation and policy. 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: Iower-level counsel, other members of the Office of General Counsel, faculty, and staff. This position will supervise assigned staff.
This job requires professionally advanced knowledge of data protection and privacy laws, especially as applied within a higher education and research-oriented environment. Additionally, the ability to communicate effectively with tact and diplomacy are required as are skills in negotiation, strategy development, multi-tasking and relationship building. Use of office and legal related computer applications is required. The person in this position will be expected to work at the highest professional level with integrity, judgment and attention to detail and work as a member of the Data Privacy Office and a contributing member of the legal team.
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 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 related 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.
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
Preferred Qualifications:
CIPP-US or CIPP -EU certification strongly preferred.
Proposed Salary
170,000 Annually : Commensurate with 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.