Legal Officer: Privacy Protection (R853B)

The Legal and Compliance office seeks to employ a qualified and experienced Legal Officer: Privacy Protection to assist in advising and ensuring that the SAMRC is complaint with POPIA. The successful candidate must be willing to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines and must be customer and service delivery orientated.

Responsibilities:

• Implement the SAMRC compliance framework to ensure and ensure it is monitored and maintained over time
• Conduct a PIIA to ensure that adequate measures and standards exist to comply with the conditions for the lawful processing of personal information (as defined in Chapter 3 of POPIA)
• Ensure that the SAMRC’s POPIA Manual is monitored, maintained and made available as prescribed PAIA
• Implement and maintain measures and adequate systems to process requests for information or access to information
• Conduct internal awareness sessions regarding:

• the provisions of the POPI Act,
• the regulations made in terms of the Act,
• codes of conduct, or
• information obtained from the Regulator

Requirements:

• LLB or similar relevant qualification or higher
• 2 years post University experience in the application of the law.
• Legal research, legal reasoning on POPIA
• Understanding and experience of the litigation process
• Professional and well disciplined, attention to detail, confident, shows initiative, is approachable, and works well in a team.

Advantageous:

• Experience in the translation of written laws into policies; legal compliance in line with the Compliance Institute of Southern Africa’s approach.

Duration of contract:

Permanent

Remuneration:

R 571 433 per annum (cost-to-company)