Job Title: Compliance and Privacy Specialist
Pay Rate: $100 per hour
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Remote/Hybrid: Hybrid in Minneapolis area
Term: 8-12 week assignment (approx. 30 hours per week)
*NO Visa holders, 1099’s or Corp to Corp.

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Scope of Services:**

As a Compliance and Privacy Specialist, you will work within small collegial Legal, Compliance & Privacy team and play a pivotal role in enhancing the organization's privacy and compliance frameworks. Your primary responsibilities include the development and execution of comprehensive tabletop exercises, ensuring engagement of necessary teams, defining roles, and identifying activities for incident management. This involves creating data privacy scenarios, leading exercises, and providing valuable feedback for updating Data Incident Response Plans. Additionally, you will collaborate with the Data Privacy Manager to integrate privacy requirements into the Third Party Risk Management program. Your role extends to supporting mandatory training rollouts, coordinating reporting with third-party status tracking, and assigning training to new employees. With a focus on customer satisfaction, driving change and innovation, and leveraging your strategic orientation, you will contribute to fostering a culture of compliance and privacy excellence. Your experience in managing compliance and privacy, preferably in the IT services industry, along with a CIPP designation, will be vital in ensuring the organization's adherence to the highest standards in data protection.

Role, Responsibilities, and Deliverables:

• Develop, execute, and oversee all aspects of a tabletop exercise for the purpose of ensuring necessary teams are engaged, clearly defining roles and responsibilities, and identifying activities required to manage and resolve an incident. Requires creation of a data privacy scenario, leading the exercise, and providing feedback and recommendations resulting from the exercise to enable the Privacy and other teams to further update current Data Incident Response Plans.
• Assist Data Privacy Manager to work on identifying and incorporating privacy requirements into the company’s Third Party Risk Management program.
• Support all mandatory trainings rollout, coordinating reporting with the third party status tracking, and assigning the training to new employees

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Competencies, Skills, and Knowledge:**

• Customer Focus – Successfully serves the internal and external customer. Responds reliably to customer requests that support the business. Knows how organization performs against customer expectations. Develops detailed, research-based understanding of the customer’s needs, issues, and priorities. Works to improve customer satisfaction within the framework of the current product/service offered.
• Driving Change and Innovation – Delivers and encourages improvements and innovation. Communicates need for change and innovation. Openly challenges status quo. Identifies specific areas to innovate and change.
• Effective Communicator – Listens well. Delivers written and verbal information effectively. Actively listens to, summarizes, and considers comments to ensure understanding. Prepares and delivers proposals and presentations. Proactively ensures the timely sharing of relevant information to appropriate people.
• Fostering relationships – Builds strong, positive relationships based on trust and respect. Uses input and recommendations from others. Considers concerns, feelings, and expertise of others to improve collaboration. Facilitates development of an open, positive atmosphere within the team.
• Results orientation – takes ongoing action to improve business results. Works toward goals, overcoming obstacles, setbacks and uncertainty. Identifies obstacles to goal achievements. Plans for contingencies to ensure delivery.
• Problem Solving & Analysis – Systematically gathers relevant information and input; considers a broad range of factors; grasps complexities and sees relationships among data, events, or problems; applies fact-based logic; generates alternatives.
• Influence – Persuades others to support and commit to desired actions; communicates the urgency and importance needed to mobilize others; uses expertise, credibility, and personal style to convince others to accept recommendations or adopt new attitudes.
• Strategic Orientation – aligns priorities and actions to strategic goals and priorities

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Experience:**

• 3-5 years experience required: managing compliance and privacy.
• 5-7 years experience preferred: managing compliance and privacy for US operations of large international company, preferably in the IT services industry.
• CIPP designation desired.
• Experience in OneTrust preferred