Communitymanager Privacy

SURF is looking for a community manager for the Privacy theme. Do you want to work with experts at institutions to further professionalise the privacy of education and research? Do you get excited about helping our institutions answer privacy questions? Do you enjoy organising expert meetings, workshops and other gatherings for our privacy target group? Then this job is made for you!

Where you will work

SURF is the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions. Together with them, we work on digital services and complex innovation issues to enhance the quality of education and research. The institutions have many suppliers that process personal data of staff, teachers, students and researchers on a large scale. As a result, institutions run into privacy issues and there is a strong desire for central support.

You will join the SURF privacy expertise centre, part of the Trust & Security department. There we develop and share knowledge products together with the institutions: from policy documents to practical manuals and best practices. For example, we help institutions with a privacy assessment framework and a benchmark. We also support the application of the AVG and help institutions with privacy issues around new technologies such as AI.

The team you will join

The Security Awareness and Organisation Team is a team of nine people, each with their own thematic responsibility. Your responsibility is thus the theme of Privacy. This team is part of the Trust & Security department and together we are responsible for service delivery, innovation and cooperation in the field of cybersecurity, privacy and IAM. On Mondays, we are always in the office and start the week together with a check-in.

We regularly have a lunch & learn. There, we informally discuss a topic with each other over a sandwich. For instance, it's about community behaviour or hacking IOT devices, and the other day we had a broad update on innovation. Our communities of security and privacy professionals are central to us. That's why we think connecting with each other is important.

What you will do

You will be responsible for the topic of privacy in Education and Research. You are in contact with FGs and privacy officers of institutions to jointly professionalise privacy at the institutions. You are active in various networks and organise meetings. You are also responsible for the Privacy Expertise Centre. You organise the cooperation around the Privacy Expertise Centre. You coordinate with the various target groups and deliver and maintain products and tools. In doing so, you will work closely with the Security Expertise Centre.

What else will you do?

• You will oversee the privacy theme within SURF and maintain contact with other teams within the organisation working on privacy.
• You are responsible for the Privacy Expertise Centre and knowledge development there. You keep information and products up to date.
• You will work to develop practical knowledge, tools and support to help institutions with their privacy issues. You do this on the basis of priorities from the target group, sector images and (privacy) maturity scores.
• You disseminate results of the Privacy Expertise Centre within the target group and are an ambassador for privacy within education and research.
• You support the privacy working groups of SCIPR, the SURF Community for Information Security and Privacy, FG networks and other privacy consultations within the sector.

Your skills and experience

• You have hbo or wo working and thinking level.
• You have at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• You have demonstrable knowledge of national and European privacy and ICT legislation and regulations.
• You have experience in communicating about legal and/or technically complex subjects; experience with (communication about) privacy and cybersecurity is an important advantage.
• You have experience with community management and/or stakeholder management.
• You have experience in communicating and maintaining (project) results.
• You can work both independently and in a team.

SURF takes pleasure in doing its recruitment itself; acquisition is therefore not appreciated.