Internship: Data Privacy Administrator Junior

**Business Unit**:Discovery Central Services**Function**:Data Analysis**Date**:9 Sep 2024- Discovery - Vitality Group
Internship: Data Privacy Administrator Junior**About Discovery**
- Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.**About Vitality Group**
- Vitality Global, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited, is responsible for the expansion of the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance business model beyond South Africa and the UK, serving to fully leverage the assets and intellectual property of Discovery beyond its primary markets. The business forms equity or contractual partnerships with leading global insurers to integrate Vitality and shared value with partners’ insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Vitality Global also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. Vitality Global is also responsible for Discovery’s 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China. Taken together, Vitality Global’s businesses jointly reach more than 30 million lives across 40 markets, delivered through partnerships with leading insurers in every continent around the world.**Key Purpose**
- VG is expanding its Privacy Team and hiring a Privacy Intern. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative and entrepreneurial company.
The Privacy Intern will: assist the Data Privacy Associate and the Global Privacy Manager in all aspects of the data privacy lifecycle; providing support with maintaining and reviewing all data privacy related documents; creating and drafting presentations, letters, outlines, papers and other documents; overseeing and administering the organization of documents and data in electronic databases; performing research; supporting data privacy compliance efforts; and being involved in other projects as may arise from time to time.**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**
- Output 1 - Assisting the Data Privacy Associate and the Global Privacy Manager with maintaining a privacy governance framework to manage data use in compliance with relevant national legislation, certifications, and industry standards whether in the US, South Africa, EU or other jurisdictions, including developing templates for data collection, documenting records of processing, assisting with data mapping, and vendor management reviews.
- Output 2 - Responsible for coordinating and conducting data privacy impact assessments.
- Output 3 - Assisting t the Data Privacy Associate with reviewing of Data Processing Agreements in relation to service providers and clients.
- Output 4 - Assisting the Data Privacy Associate and the Global Privacy Manager with ensuring that Vitality’s systems and procedures comply with all relevant data privacy and protection law, regulation, and policy (including in relation to the retention and destruction of data).
- Output 5 - Perform research for the Privacy Team
- Output 6 - Schedule appointments, gives information to callers, takes meeting notes, assist with general team organisational tasks and action items, and otherwise relieves the Data Privacy Associate and Global Privacy Manager of clerical and administrative work and business detail.
- Output 7 - Work closely with internal clients.

**Personal Attributes and Skills**
- Interest in data privacy and data protection regulation.
- Interest in information technology and data management systems
- Excellent writing and presentation skills
- Ensures accountability
- Action oriented
- Organisational skills
- Communicates effectively

**Education and Experience**
- LLB qualification
- Passionate about Data Privacy and Technology Law
- Exposure to the GDPR/ POPIA/ HIPAA/ CCPA while studying would be helpful but not required.
- EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.