Senior Data Protection Advisor (Permanent or Freelance)

Who we are

Approach Cyber is a pure-play cyber security and privacy company.

Approach Cyber has been providing cyber security services to international clients for over 20 years and employs around one hundred experts in the field.

At Approach, we believe that everyone deserves digital peace-of-mind. This is our vision, our aspiration for a society where each and every one is reassured, where there is confidence and security in the digital world. Therefore, our role is to bring cyber serenity to society.

Every day, we take care of our clients’ cyber security while they focus on their business. We help them to prevent, withstand and recover from cyber security incidents and enable them to keep their full attention on their core activities.

We offer 360-degree solutions to improve our customers’ cyber resilience: anticipate, prevent, protect, detect, respond and recover. We are committed to delivering top-notch services: consulting and audit, training and awareness, security technology integration and software development. Approach is also a true Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) thanks to our shared Security Operations Centre (SOC).

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a Senior Data Protection Advisor to integrate our Privacy & Data Governance Business Unit.

The current business dynamics are unprecedented for this department, which is multiplying ambitious projects all over Belgium. In other words, Approach is a major player in Data Protection and Data Governance and is quickly evolving.

We are therefore actively looking for people who have the ambition to participate in the development of the data protection department at Approach, while advising clients from various sizes and sectors, helping them improve their privacy and risk management maturity, providing top-notch legal expertise as well as governance recommendations.

You will have the opportunity to grow your expertise by getting acquainted and/or certified in recognized INDUSTRY and privacy STANDARDS (ISO 27001, ISO 31700, Europrivacy certifications, etc.) with our experts, and advise clients on the latest legislative frameworks.

Your role and responsibilities

You will join a small team with all levels of seniority. You will integrate your field of action within a more global cybersecurity approach. Therefore, you could rely on the knowledge of your expert colleagues with both technical and legal backgrounds.

You could:

Provide high value services to customers in the light of Approach’s data protection offering/business:

• Bring your knowledge and energy on different steps of data protection projects, autonomously or within the team.
• Advise on all aspects of data privacy.
• Participate in the development of Data Privacy Impact Assessments (DPIA) and supervise their implementation.
• Monitor compliance with the international and local data protection legislations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, e-privacy directive, Data Governance Act, …)
• Drive privacy compliance audits.
• Train employees involved in data processing activities.
• Liaise with national Supervisory Authorities (SA’s)

Use your energy, your proactivity, and your smile to develop our Privacy & Data Protection business unit by (for example):

• Actively contributing to the development of tools and methodologies used by your team.
• Sharing your knowledge about sector news to your team.
• Contributing to develop a business/commercial approach towards potential customers.
• Following and coaching junior colleagues on your specific expertise.

Your profile

You have :

• Recognized Data Privacy Officer certifications
• OR any other training, certifications, Executive Master, … in the frame of data protection or cybersecurity.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar function (DPO, Assistant DPO, Privacy officer, legal counsel, …)
• Good understanding of Information Risk Management and methodologies
• Interest in Data Protection technologies and how they link to Data Privacy
• English and (French OR Dutch) is a must have. The ability to speak/write/listen to one of the main belgian national languages is mandatory.
• True communicator with Business level communication skills: to make complex legal or data protection concepts easy to understand by a business or a technical audience, and to interact with C-level, to work with legal, GRC and IT departments, to challenge technical implementations and to understand business needs.

Considered as a plus:

• Ability to understand senior management considerations (strategic level) and ability to help them in their decision.
• Good understanding of ISO27000 standards
• Experience in risk assessments as assessor or contributor
• Exposure to security audit, as auditor, auditee, remediation owner
• Exposure to (security) incident response and crisis management

Mindset:

• Willingness to provide high quality deliverables and to go the extra mile.
• Project oriented by being dedicated to the client’s objectives and give advice.
• Teamplayer
• Manage diverse workloads and prioritize accordingly.
• Ambassador for the professional values that are at the heart of our philosophy:

TOP-NOTCH: We strive for best-of-the-best while staying up to date with the latest technology.

HUMAN-CENTRIC: We care about people in the digital world, listening before interacting respectfully in a responsible environment.

NO-NONSENSE: We go for it, we work together, we are committed to deliver, to exceed expectations.

Our offer

• Join a dynamic and fast-growing company in a booming sector
• Participate in the development of the company as a co-creator of innovative solutions
• Drive ambitious incident response projects from the business situation up to the resolution, taking direct decisions while keeping a concrete view of the human-scale IT networks at our customers’ sites, and direct contact with the C-level client sponsor
• [For employees] Develop your career path and add top-level trainings and certifications to your CV
• [For employees] Benefit from an attractive salary package, including a full range of benefits :

• Company car and fuel card
• Competitive group insurance including pension fund, death, and disability coverage,
• Attractive complementary insurances for non-work-related accident and loss of salary in case of sickness, company fully supported contribution
• 32 days holiday/year (on a fulltime equivalent basis)
• Flexible home working policy
• Other fringe benefits (meal vouchers, eco vouchers, …)

• Fun company events, exclusive team experiences
• Contribute to a safer, fairer world for data subjects and citizens, ensure the serenity of great businesses and essential public institutions
• Live your values daily in a dynamic, fun and multicultural working environment.

Interested?

Don’t wait and send us your CV and application to jobs@approach-cyber.com. Join us in our commitment to deliver cyber serenity and contribute to a safer digital world.

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