Data Privacy Counsel

7 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa M-KOPA Full time

**At M-KOPA, We Finance Progress.
The scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off-grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

Our people reflect this mission; we pride ourselves in empowering our people to own their own careers, and encouraging growth through our learning and development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. As a collective, we value diversity, knowing every journey brings its own reward, and support each employee as they travel theirs. This includes our family-friendly policies, commitment to employee mental and physical well-being, and flexible working practices. Our aim is for every employee to be able to shape their own career, whilst helping shape the future of M-KOPA as we grow together.

Want to know more about M-KOPA? Click this link: About M-KOPA

You will help ensure data privacy compliance in all the markets where M-KOPA operates, including Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and the UK.

You will report to the General Counsel

LI- Onsite

**Main Job Responsibilities**:

- You will undertake privacy program remediation activities, conduct data audits to ensure compliance and provide advice on the impact of data protection efforts.
- You will conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and undertake the assessments following data privacy laws.
- You will identify areas of non or partial compliance with privacy law and rectify any issues.
- You will review our policies following Data Protection Regulation and codes of practice.
- You will maintain comprehensive records of all data processing activities conducted by our company, including the purposes of all processing activities.
- You will develop guidelines and templates clauses and contracts for management of several team members and relationships relating to processing of personally identifiable information.
- You will raise awareness, brainstorm internal communications and training plans and provide data protection advice and support for members of staff.
- You will develop external communication plan for privacy awareness for third parties and partners.
- You will support in management and administration of privacy software and data incident response and data breach notification procedures.
- You will monitor industry best practice and trends for privacy and consumer protection to keep training material up to date.
- You will identify and use opportunities to improve the quality of data privacy processes and standards.
- Promote a culture of data protection compliance across all units of the organization and suppliers involved in processing personal data.
- Support special projects for our company, including privacy certification, audits, new market expansion, legal & privacy compliance.
- Help with data privacy and consumer protection related due diligence, queries for transactions and from team members.

**Experience/ Skills & Competencies/ Licenses & Certifications/ Education Required**:

- Over five (5) years' experience working in data protection or privacy compliance.
- Qualified lawyer
- Experience running data privacy operations including data privacy impact assessments, transfer impact assessments, vendor assessments, risk management.
- Experience with data processing operations, including information systems, data security and data protection needs.
- Expertise on Data Protection laws across M-KOPA markets.
- Privacy Related Professional certification (CIPP, CIPT, PECB IEC/ISO 27001, 27701 Implementer or Auditor) an added advantage.

M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.

M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.

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