Group Data Protection Officer

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🌐 United Kingdom, Kenya, +4 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇺🇬 Uganda – Remote 🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote 🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚔 Compliance

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M-KOPA

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

Healthcare • Logistics • Fintech

M-KOPA is a fintech platform founded in 2011 that provides digital financial services to underbanked consumers across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana. The company leverages data and IoT technology to enable digital micropayments, facilitating access to essential products and services such as smartphones, electric motorcycles, solar power systems, digital loans, and health insurance. With over $1 billion in credit extended to 3 million customers, M-KOPA is dedicated to making financing accessible for everyday essentials.

📋 Description

• Lead M-KOPA’s privacy programme and the in-house privacy team • Own Records of Processing Activities, Data Protection Impact Assessments and Transfer Impact Assessments • Lead the organisation’s path to ISO 27701 certification • Act as principal contact for data protection regulators across every market • Handle complaints, investigations, registrations and formal regulatory correspondence • Lead breach response with Information Security, including risk assessment and regulator and individual notification within statutory timelines • Conduct post-incident root-cause analysis • Negotiate data processing agreements with vendors • Advise product teams on AI-driven features • Brief executive leadership on privacy risk through privileged reporting to the Group General Counsel • Build privacy culture through training plans and awareness programmes • Improve the use of automation and responsible AI tools in privacy processes

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive progressive experience in data protection compliance • Deep working knowledge of GDPR and UK GDPR • Knowledge of laws modelled on GDPR and data protection regimes across multiple jurisdictions, including emerging markets • Knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 27701 and the NIST Privacy Framework • Proven experience implementing privacy programmes in multinational organisations • Experience applying data protection requirements to AI, profiling and automated decision-making • Experience managing incidents and breaches through regulator notification • Experience reporting to senior leadership or a Board • Experience leading and developing a multi-location team of data protection professionals • Qualification to practise law preferred but not essential • Ability to work across time zones and with regulators • Applicants must be legally able to work in the specified location

🏖️ Benefits

• Diverse development programs • Coaching partnerships • On-the-job training • Family-friendly policies • Well-being support • Flexible working arrangements

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