GAIN - Central IT - Data Protection Officer

Job Title: 

Data Protection Officer 

Location: 

Mumbai 

Reports to: 

Primary Purpose 

To own, maintain and improve our data protection and privacy compliance framework, ensuring lawful, fair and transparent processing of personal data across our processing sites in the UK, EU, India, Philippines, US and Canada. 

Main Responsibilities: 

The Data Protection Officer is responsible for proactively managing and improving our data protection compliance framework, driving privacy accountability and lawful processing across the organisation, partnering with IT, Operations, Engineering, HR, Procurement and business stakeholders to embed practical data protection controls and support compliant growth. 

• Own and maintain the data protection governance framework, including policies, standards, procedures and supporting documentation. 

• Maintain and manage the Record of Processing Activities (ROPA), ensuring processing activities, data flows, systems, suppliers and international transfers are accurately documented and kept up to date. 

• Lead and produce Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs), EU Standard Contract Clauses (SCC) and other privacy risk assessments for new and cha