Privacy Consultant

As a Privacy consultant at Highberg, you work on challenging and diverse privacy issues for a wide range of clients. You not only provide advice on the legal aspects of privacy but also ensure that organizations can implement privacy in a practical and workable way, without hindering their ambitions. Sometimes you sit at the table as a strategic advisor to the executive board, while at other times, you take on the role of interim Data Protection Officer or lead a GDPR implementation project. Whatever your role, you always maintain a focus on balancing privacy with the client’s organizational goals.

• Facilitating Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) in multidisciplinary teams to ensure that new services comply with legislation while maintaining user trust.

• Enhancing an organization’s privacy maturity by establishing privacy governance structures and leading awareness campaigns, addressing privacy risks across all levels of the organization.

• Guiding a digital transformation where data security and privacy are core elements, such as in a large cloud migration project, with your advice helping to ensure both compliance and customer satisfaction.

• Implementing privacy by design in an innovative AI pilot project, collaborating with IT experts to minimize the privacy impact without limiting technological progress.

• Junior/medior: A completed university degree (WO) in law, ICT, or organizational studies.
• Junior/medior: You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and a good command of English.
• Junior/medior: Up-to-date knowledge of the GDPR and related legislation, particularly in the areas of digitization and data.
• Junior/medior: Strong affinity with information security and interest in developments such as Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, privacy by design, and smart cities.
• Junior/medior: Privacy certification is a plus.
• Senior (supplemented with): At least 5 years of work experience in consultancy roles and/or in the field of privacy.