Swedish Coast Guard is Hiring a Data Protection Officer

The Swedish Coast Guard is a civil government preparedness authority responsible for maritime surveillance and rescue services at sea on behalf of the government and parliament. With our maritime capabilities, the Coast Guard is also an important authority in Sweden's total defense. A key part of the maritime surveillance mission is to ensure safety in Sweden's maritime zones. This is achieved through crime fighting, monitoring, and maintaining order. The Coast Guard's rescue service mission includes a wide range of different rescue operations, including environmental rescue efforts in the event of accidents or spills and rescue operations in the event of shipwrecks or emergencies.

The Coast Guard is a maritime hub that ensures a civil maritime situation picture for Sweden and that other authorities have access to the maritime capabilities they need for their missions. An important part of the Coast Guard's mission is to support other parts of society based on the expertise that the authority possesses.

The Coast Guard is a workplace characterized by collaboration and engagement across boundaries. Here, there are dedicated employees with varying competencies, creating a dynamic workplace with constant opportunities to learn new things. The Coast Guard focuses on employee participation and leadership, and it is therefore important that your values align with those of the Coast Guard – a holistic view, goodwill, and commitment. The Coast Guard offers an attractive workplace characterized by striving to be free from discrimination and providing equal opportunities and rights for all.

Description

The Swedish Coast Guard is now seeking a temporary Data Protection Officer for the Legal Unit, located in either Karlskrona, Malmö, or Gothenburg.

The Legal Unit is responsible for providing advice and support in legal matters, data protection, and case management, as well as handling various types of legal cases such as secondary employment, liability and compensation issues, and state compensation claims, among others. The Legal Unit is also responsible for the authority's register for personal data processing and responds to most of the authority's incoming referrals.

The data protection regulations play a central role within the Coast Guard as personal data is processed throughout the authority, in all departments. The data protection work contributes to implementing important parts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Crime Data Act, and applicable registration regulations.

Job Responsibilities

As a Data Protection Officer, you will work closely with the authority's lawyers, data protection officers, and data protection administrators on tasks within the unit's area of responsibility. Your main task is to provide internal advice to various parts of the organization regarding personal data processing and data protection. The tasks may also include administering the authority's register for personal data processing, handling referrals, secondary employment, compensation cases, requests for public documents, and register extracts.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• education focused on law or information science, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer.
• very good knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Crime Data Act.
• good ability to convey information and express yourself in speech and writing, in both Swedish and English.

The following experiences are particularly meritorious:

• experience and competence in working with data protection, administrative law, information exchange, or public access and confidentiality.
• experience from practical work with data protection, for example, with privacy by design and default and risk and impact assessments based on data protection regulations.
• experience of case management in government or other public sector work.

To thrive and succeed in the role, you are unpretentious, solution-oriented, and flexible in your working style. You have a structured approach and good analytical and administrative skills. You are a team player who collaborates well with others but is also comfortable working independently. With good judgment, strong self-motivation, and high engagement, you take responsibility for and drive your tasks forward.

When hiring, we place great emphasis on your personal qualities and abilities.

Conditions

The position is a temporary employment until December 31, 2026, with a possibility of extension. Start date is by agreement.

Business travel is included in the employment, both domestic and international.

For employment, Swedish citizenship, a drug test, and security clearance according to the Security Protection Act are required. Tests may be conducted during the recruitment process and used in the selection.

Other

To ensure quality and efficiency in the recruitment process, we use an electronic application form in collaboration with Varbi for all job openings. Please fill out your application as carefully as possible to provide an accurate representation of yourself.

The Coast Guard is a government authority, which means that the information you provide to us may be disclosed under the principle of public access. Normally, there is no confidentiality for the information processed in the database. If you have protected personal information, please contact the contact person specified in the advertisement.

In preparation for the recruitment process, the Coast Guard has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.