Data Protection Specialists Wanted in Stockholm

Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions. We work for everyone living here today and in the future. Now we are looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Welcome to Us

The Department of Digitalization, IT, and Telephony (DIT) is an operation that started in August 2023.

Our mission is to help increase the pace, delivery quality, and efficiency of the city's digitalization projects. Since our inception, we have built a team of internal consultants with extensive experience in project management, business development, and change management. By 2025, we have expanded our service offerings to the city's administrations and companies with expertise in system development and system architecture. In the past six months, we have further strengthened our service offerings with two data protection officers. Due to high demand from the city's administrations and companies for our services, we are now recruiting two more colleagues who want to contribute to the city's development in data protection.

We are Currently Looking for Two Data Protection Specialists

Where the main focus of the tasks will be to assist administrations and companies in operational data protection work. You will work closely with the data protection officers in their strategic role. The role of data protection specialist is new, and here you will have great opportunities to shape the role and the offering to administrations and companies together with the data protection officers.

We Offer

In addition to being part of our fantastic team, you will have great benefits as an employee with us: good flexible working conditions, generous wellness allowance, subsidized massage at the workplace, winter and summer working hours, the possibility of vacation exchange, and favorable occupational pension. We are located in bright and renovated premises near Globen, close to the subway and light rail. We have an activity-based workplace and offer the opportunity to partially work from home when the business allows. Would you like to know more about our benefits or how it is to work within the city - Work in Stockholm City.

”For me, it is important to be an engaged, clear, and accessible leader. I show great trust in my employees and believe that we should have a good balance between assignments and leisure. It is important that we together build the new department, succeed with our assignments and set goals. I will work to ensure that we have the right conditions to do a good job and that we develop ourselves, the department, and over time contribute to the development of Stockholm City in digitalization, IT, and telephony.” – Magnus Malmborg, recruiting manager

Your Role

As a data protection specialist, you will have a central and operational role in developing and supporting several administrations and companies and their operations in various data protection issues. You will, among other things:

• Work closely and pedagogically with operations to ensure that requirements for personal data handling are integrated into all projects and processes
• Conduct impact assessments regarding data protection together with operations of the information handled for e.g. procurements or new business processes
• Have a central role when operations need to establish data processing agreements
• Monitor, lead, and assist in reporting and handling personal data incidents and vulnerabilities regarding personal data processing
• Participate in process development as well as implementation and improvement of operational data protection work
• Support data protection officers, e.g. in the work with the operations' annual reports on data protection.

Your Competence and Experience

To succeed in the role, we want you to have:

• Relevant academic degree, for example in law, information security, or IT
• Solid knowledge of GDPR, legal regulations, guidelines, and regulations as well as other relevant data protection legislation
• Documented experience of working with operational data protection issues within the public sector or another large organization
• Practical experience in handling personal data incidents, conducting impact assessments (DPIA), and systematically working with record-keeping
• Establishing data processing agreements
• Good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

It is advantageous if you have:

• Understanding of cybersecurity and the standards that underpin systematic data protection work, such as the ISO 27000 series
• Experience with the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (OSL)
• Experience in conducting knowledge-enhancing initiatives such as training and feedback
• Experience working consultatively with operations
• Experience in information classification
• Project management experience.

We are looking for someone with a pedagogical approach, where you are clear, listen, and adapt your communication to the recipient and situation to make complex issues understandable to others. You have good collaboration skills and contribute to cooperation by having an open, accommodating, and problem-solving approach. You are self-driven and take responsibility for driving your work forward. You have a high degree of integrity. Since you will be responsible for several administrations and companies, it is important that you can set a good structure and easily create order and progress even in extensive processes. Your development-oriented attitude means that you contribute to improving working methods and processes over time.

In this recruitment, we place great emphasis on the competencies mentioned above, personal suitability, motivation, and commitment to the position.

Do you recognize yourself in the above description and are you interested in a new challenge? Warm welcome with your application!

Other

Stockholm City works with competency-based recruitment aimed at considering each person's competencies and thus counteracting discrimination.

The Service Administration is one of the city's administrative agencies and is responsible for the administrative tasks coordinated in the city. This mainly involves payroll administration, financial administration, city-wide procurement issues, contact center operations, as well as internal consultants providing support in digitalization, IT & telephony, recruitment, as well as property and local issues. We have about 400 employees and are located in the Globen area. Our core values are summarized in the word DRIVE, which stands for: Competence - Openness - Respect - Responsibility.