Vacant job

The position is located within the Municipal Executive Office, which is one of eight departments in Linköping Municipality. We work with municipality-wide strategic issues and provide support to the entire municipality, businesses, organizations, as well as the municipality's political leadership. At the Municipal Executive Office, you are welcomed by a department with good competence and by driving and helpful colleagues who emphasize how meaningful it is to drive the development for all of Linköping.

Do you want to brighten up everyday life and improve the quality of life for the people of Linköping? With us, you can make a significant difference and contribute to making Linköping a better place. Welcome to us!

Your responsibilities

Linköping Municipality is now strengthening its data protection work by establishing a new position that will serve as a link between the operations and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its associated regulations. As a Data Protection Strategist, you work closely with the municipality's operations and serve as a strategic support in complying with the GDPR and related legislation. You contribute to identifying opportunities and creating conditions for effective data protection work. In this role, you are responsible for legal support and advice regarding the GDPR and related legislation to the municipality's committees and departments.

In your role, you will have a varied and diverse job where you collaborate with all of the municipality's departments. You work closely with the departments' data protection coordinators and support them in making prioritizations and assessments within the data protection area. You also contribute to translating the requirements of the GDPR and related legislation into practical working methods in the operations.

To spread knowledge and strengthen competence within the organization, you will hold training sessions and, if necessary, develop and revise municipality-wide steering documents within the data protection area.

In addition to working with the municipality's departments, you will also collaborate with the municipality's Data Protection Officer and municipal lawyers at the Legal Unit.

This is a role for you who wants to contribute to developing and strengthening data protection work in Linköping Municipality. Here you have the opportunity to be an enabler who facilitates in complex issues and finds pragmatic ways forward.

Your workplace

As a Data Protection Strategist, you will be located at the municipality's Legal Unit. The unit is responsible for municipality-wide legal issues and ensures that professional expert support is available within law and also supports some of the municipal companies in data protection matters. The Legal Unit is led by the Chief Lawyer and the unit consists of six municipal lawyers, two Data Protection Officers, and an Information Security Manager.

The workplace is centrally located at Ågatan 40, and a trust period applies to the role.

You who apply

We are looking for you with a college or university education that we assess as relevant for the assignment. You have previous experience of qualified work with data protection issues and have knowledge of the GDPR and adjacent legislation. We consider it meritorious to have experience of working within the public sector. Experience of enabling the use of AI solutions through the application of the GDPR and good knowledge of the AI Act are also seen as meritorious.

For the position, very good ability in oral and written communication in Swedish is required, as the work places high demands on interpreting and writing advanced text, as well as being able to convey complex legislation in a clear and pedagogical manner.

We are looking for you who have a consultative and pragmatic approach and are confident in your professional role. For the role, it is required that you have the ability to take own initiatives and independently drive issues within your subject areas. You should be able to structure your work and communicate solutions in a clear and pedagogical manner, both orally and in writing. Furthermore, you work well with other people and can relate to them in a listening and smooth way. You work towards goals and have a clear result orientation and can change your direction when the goals change.

In this recruitment, we use personality and problem-solving tests as part of our assessment, if you proceed in the process.

This advertisement is posted during the holiday period, and we will begin calling for interviews after the last application date, August 16.

We warmly welcome your application!

Other information

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Start date: According to agreement

Employment type: Permanent

Employment level: 100%

Number of vacancies: 1

Ref. no: 16835

You do not attach a personal letter with this application

We make it possible for you to succeed

With your contribution, we can achieve greater success together. Therefore, as an employer, we want you to thrive and have the best conditions for succeeding in your assignment within Linköping Municipality. We want you to be able to develop and reach your full potential!