Data Protection Coordinator at the Swedish Customs

Do you want to work in an authority that makes a difference in society and have meaningful, interesting, and exciting tasks within a crime-fighting intelligence operation? If so, the Swedish Customs is for you.

The operational activities of the Swedish Customs are divided into four departments: the Control Department, the Revenue Department, the Intelligence Department, and the Customs Criminal Department.

The Intelligence Department handles intelligence and risk analysis across all areas of the Swedish Customs' mission, concerning both illegal and dangerous goods as well as revenue collection.

The department is divided into four units with geographical responsibility: South, West, East, and North. Within the department, there is also the Customs Selection Center (TSC) and the unit for Strategic Analysis and National Desk (Sand).

We are now looking for a proactive, independent, and judicious Data Protection Coordinator for the department's management support.

As a Data Protection Coordinator, you will handle personal data issues, but also work with information management and data protection matters. The assignment will need to be shaped over time in dialogue between employees and management, focusing on the needs of the operation. Your placement will be at one of our offices in Stockholm, Malmö, or Gothenburg.

About the position

As a Data Protection Coordinator, you are responsible for providing advice and support to managers and employees on personal data issues. You receive and register notifications about personal data processing in the Swedish Customs' register of personal data processing. You investigate cases regarding rectification, deletion, or limitation of personal data and prepare these cases for decision. Furthermore, you handle cases regarding register extracts, assist the legal department with appeals concerning personal data processing, and support the department head in investigating personal data incidents and in any notification to the Privacy Protection Authority. You also drive quality work within personal data processing, data protection, and information management.

Within the area of personal data, there are established governing documents and developed routines, but there is also a need to develop the work. We are therefore looking for someone who wants a role that includes both practical routine handling and driving long-term development of working methods and routines. It is therefore also important to have a good overview of the handling of personal data issues, information management, and data protection in the department to identify areas for development and drive the work forward.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A university degree in social sciences, human resources, law, or equivalent education or experience that we assess as equivalent.
• Documented experience in information management, data protection issues, and personal data matters.
• Very good Swedish in speech and writing.
• Swedish citizenship.

It is meritorious if you have:

• Training in data protection issues.
• Experience from public operations.
• Experience in legal work.
• Experience in intelligence work.
• Knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Customs Offense Data Act, and the Customs Data Act.

Personal qualities

The role requires you to be meticulous and structured. You need to understand the complexity of the regulations while making the handling as uncomplicated as possible and support the managers in handling information management and personal data issues in a helpful manner. The handling of personal data incidents needs to be addressed promptly and requires flexibility and initiative. As a Data Protection Coordinator, you work both based on incoming questions and cases as well as proactively.

You have many contacts in your work and therefore need to be communicative and easy to deal with for those you support. You also need to have good collaboration skills as you will work closely with other Data Protection Coordinators in the authority and with managers and employees in the department. You have high integrity and understand the importance of acting in accordance with the state value framework as a public servant.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability!

We offer you

By working at the Swedish Customs, you have an important job where you contribute to a safe and secure society. We value employee satisfaction and professional development highly, and we strive for you as an employee to have a good balance between work and leisure. With us, you will have secure employment conditions and our benefits include wellness grants, subsidized medications, and good vacation and pension conditions.

Other

Reference number: TV-2025-09589

Location: Stockholm, Gothenburg, or Malmö.

Employment form: The employment is a permanent position starting with a 6-month probationary period, and individual salary setting applies.

We have high demands on our employees' security and confidentiality awareness. Before a hiring decision, you will undergo a drug test and background check. A security clearance with a register check according to the Security Protection Act will be conducted before employment, as the position is classified. The Swedish Customs is a total defense authority, and upon employment, you may be assigned to the Swedish Customs in a war situation.

The Swedish Customs values the qualities that contribute to the operation by having a balanced gender distribution and ethnic diversity.

For more information and application

Inquiries about the position can be made by Adam Lestaric, tel. 08-456 58 41. For questions about the recruitment process, you can call the Swedish Customs' HR support at tel. 060-67 25 85. Union representatives are for OFR-P/TULL-KUST, Ulf Persson, tel. 040-661 33 21 and for Saco-S, Katarina Hernhut, tel. 08-456 52 65.

Your application, along with a personal letter and CV/resume, must be submitted to the Swedish Customs no later than April 21. You apply via the electronic application form below.

We kindly request no contact with staffing and recruitment companies or advertisers of job postings.

The Swedish Customs is a government agency that controls the flow of goods across Sweden's borders. With the vision that only approved goods should pass the border, we prevent illegal goods from entering the country and contribute to a safer society. We simplify trade with other countries and lay the foundation for increased growth and competition on equal terms. The Swedish Customs, founded in 1636, currently has about 2,600 employees and is led by the Director General of Customs, Johan Norrman.