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General Information

Vacancy number
1014/2025
Recruitment type
External recruitment (international)
Type of contract
Junior professional
Posted date
12-Jun-2025
Deadline to apply
03-Jul-2025
Duty station
Strasbourg
Grade
B3
Entity
Directorate General of Administration (DGA)

Description & Requirements

Your Team

You will work under the supervision of the Data Protection Officer, who is responsible for ensuring the Council of Europe’s compliance with its internal regulations and for providing the Secretariat with independent professional advice on best practices in the area of data protection.

Your Role

As a Junior Data Protection Officer, you will be responsible for the following tasks:

Assistance to the Data Protection Officer (DPO)

  • assisting the DPO in implementing and managing the data protection program;
  • supporting the DPO in monitoring the Organisation’s activities to ensure compliance with data protection regulations;
  • contributing to the development and updating of data protection policies and procedures;
  • raising awareness among staff about data protection issues and best practices.

Privacy notices

  • drafting and reviewing privacy policies to ensure transparency in the use of personal data;
  • ensuring that privacy policies comply with legal requirements and reflect the Organisation’s practices.

Contractual work

  • reviewing data protection clauses in contracts with service providers and partners;
  • collaborating with the Organisation’s legal department to ensure contracts include appropriate data protection provisions.

Data subject access requests (DSARs)

  • managing and responding to individuals’ requests for access to their personal data;
  • coordinating with the Organisation’s divisions/departments to gather necessary information and ensure timely and complete responses;
  • maintaining a record of DSARs and responses to ensure traceability and compliance.

Data protection impact assessments (DPIAs)

  • assisting in conducting DPIAs for new projects or significant changes to existing data processing activities.

Relations with the Data Protection Commissioner

  • assisting in managing communications with the Data Protection Commissioner;
  • helping to prepare responses to inquiries from the Data Protection Commissioner.

Incidents management

  • participating in managing data security incidents;
  • assisting in analysing incidents and implementing corrective measures.
Requirements to apply

You must:

  • have a higher education degree or qualification equivalent to a master’s degree (2nd cycle of the Bologna process framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area) in law, data protection, information security, or a related field;
  • have a maximum of two years of relevant professional experience in data protection, compliance, information security, or a related field; 
  • have a very good knowledge of one of the two official languages of the Council of Europe (English or French) and a good knowledge of the other.

You must also:

  • be a citizen of one of the member states of the Council of Europe and fulfil the conditions for appointment to the civil service of that state;
  • have discharged any obligation concerning national service (military, civil or comparable);
  • not be the parent, child, stepchild or grandchild of a serving staff member of the Council of Europe;
  • be under the age of 35 years.

Your application must demonstrate to what extent you have the competencies listed below. To help you doing so, feel free to consult our competency framework.

Key competencies
  • Operational - Planning and work organisation
  • Operational - Analysis and problem solving
  • Operational - Drafting skills
  • Operational - Results orientation
  • Professional and technical expertise:
  1. knowledge of data protection regulations and frameworks, particularly the Modernised Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108+);
  2. knowledge of the peculiarities of the legal status of an international organisation and their impact on data protection obligations.
Desirable competencies
  • Interpersonal - Teamwork and co-operation
  • Interpersonal - Communication
What we offer

This job vacancy is published within the framework of the Junior Professionals Programme (limited to 4 years). You can consult the conditions of employment (salaries, allowances, pension scheme, social insurance, etc.) on the webpage What we offer.

Applications and selection procedure

For more information on how we recruit, you can consult the page Our recruitment process. This recruitment is carried out in accordance with Articles 490 and 4100 of the Council of Europe Staff Rules. The deadline for applications is indicated in the General information section of this vacancy notice (see above) and is fixed at 23:59:59 (CET/CEST). When applying, make sure your motivation shows how your competencies make your profile the best for the role.

Important information

As an equal opportunity employer, the Council of Europe welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people, irrespective of sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social origin, disability, religion or belief. Under its equal opportunity policy, the Council of Europe is aiming to achieve gender parity in staff employed in each category and grade. At the time of appointment, preference between suitable people shall be given to the person of the gender which is under-represented in the relevant grades within the category to which the vacancy belongs.

Applicants with specific needs are encouraged to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact us at [email protected], we will ensure that your request is handled.

The information published on the CoE’s careers website regarding working conditions is correct at the time of publication of the vacancy notice. Any changes to these conditions during the recruitment process will be updated on our Portal and will apply at the time of the job offer. Our career's website is not intended to be exhaustive and may not address all questions you would have. Should you have remaining questions, please contact us at [email protected].