Junior Data Protection Officer

Relief Applications https://reliefapplications.org is a European company serving the international humanitarian and development sectors. Founded in 2014, by an IT

expert and an experienced humanitarian during the Red Cross response to the Haiyan (Yolanda) typhoon in the Philippines, we provide a variety of innovative services bridging humanitarian work and cutting-edge technology to disseminate new IT tools and significantly improve the efficiency of humanitarian organizations. We are looking for motivated young people to join the team, bring new ideas and turn them into beautiful, yet robust tools. In order for IT tools to have a great and sustainable impact we believe in the necessity of respecting and complying with data protection.

We currently develop tools to help manage emergencies, including transferring money and goods in humanitarian relief scenarios with the latest technologies available, customized apps, web platforms, chatbots, voice devices as well as monitoring and evaluation tools for partners such as the United Nations, the French Red Cross, Save the Children and Oxfam. At the same time, we see the rising importance of data protection within new technologies evolving on a constant basis. In both humanitarian missions and also development projects, beneficiaries are revealing their personal and sensible data. In order to raise awareness for this crucial topic, we created the initiative DP4G (Data Protection for Good – https://dp4g.org) for humanitarian workers in which we regularly provide specialised hands-on training enabling the humanitarian sector to acquire the must-know knowledge and the do’s and don’ts to efficiently apply to the GDPR in their projects.

Furthermore, Relief Applications conducts consultancies about how to fully comply with data protection regulations for international organizations.

Contract Length: 3 months

Date Needed By: ASAP

Exact Job Location: Remote

Reports To: CEO

Responsible For: Support to projects in the field of data protection

Responsibilities

As Junior Data Protection Officer your main responsibilities will be:

• S/he will be working closely with our CTO in giving, regularly updating and further developing the DP4G trainings

• S/he will be working on data protection projects with international organizations (this might include the conduction of interviews, surveys, the analysis of data and the writing of policies and guidelines)

• S/he will be doing research on topics related to data protection in the humanitarian sector

• S/he will be up-to date regarding data protection regulations

• S/he will be in charge of actively developing Relief Applications activities regarding data protection

Profile requested:

Education:

Bachelor or Master’s Degree in law, Economics, Business, International Relations or Development Studies ideally with a focus on data protection

Experience:

● Min. 1 year of experience in data management compliance

● Experience working with the GDPR (private or NGO)

● Experience in providing trainings and workshops

● Experience in conducting interviews

Skills required:

● Excellent writing skills

● Expertise and in-depth understanding of the GDPR

● Knowledge of the humanitarian world

● Examination and consulting skills

● Open-minded and interested in new topics

● Attention to detail

● Excellent fluency in English

Nice to have:

● Conversational French and Spanish

● Interest for IT trends

Attitude:

● Be a strong team player with a can-do attitude

● Problem solver

● Creative mind with initiatives