Paralegal - Data Privacy

Job Summary

Job Family Group: Legal Group

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

A full-time paralegal is needed within bp’s Central Data Privacy office (CDPO), which sits within the legal department, to assist bp in delivering its strategy by maintaining a best practice privacy compliance program.

CDPO maintains bp’s global privacy compliance framework. In doing so, CDPO advises on a range of data privacy matters, manages the company’s records of processing activities and privacy assessments, maintains a centralized library of policies, procedures, and guidance materials, leads central training and awareness programs, and supports a network of local privacy managers/coordinators across the organisation.

We are excited to add a new teammate to help us achieve our goals.

Key Accountabilities

1. Monitor and triage dedicated intake channels for privacy related requests.
2. Monitor and triage privacy regulatory updates and create and maintain a process to embed the changes into our impacted business areas, as appropriate.
3. Maintain privacy intranet, SharePoint and related sites.
4. Coordinate training, communication and awareness activities.
5. Coordinate with IT department and key stakeholders to maintain applications used in support of bp’s privacy compliance program.
6. Support the maintenance of records of processing activities and privacy impact assessments at the outset of new projects, products and initiatives.
7. Actively identify and support harmonization opportunities for privacy related processes and procedures globally.
8. Support other members of the CDPO as required.

Role Requirements

1. Previous paralegal experience supporting a legal or regulatory compliance program.
2. Demonstrated expertise with Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and ability to create effective reporting, training and awareness materials.
3. Quick learner and ability to prioritize workload in a fast-paced environment.
4. Planning and organizational skills, including the ability to create and maintain team processes and procedures.
5. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. This role requires engagement with businesses and support functions across bp.
6. Work well as part of a team, demonstrating flexibility to support others in the team at times of high-volume workload to achieve the best results. Foster a one team environment.

Desirable Criteria

1. Previous experience supporting a privacy compliance program.
2. Relevant paralegal and/or privacy certifications.
3. Experience supporting multi-national organizations and/or a working in a large corporate environment.
4. Prior experience implementing and maintaining data privacy related tools and sufficient associated technical capabilities.
5. Attention to detail and enthusiasm for teamwork.
6. Willingness and enthusiasm for taking on and delivering new challenges.

Why Join Us?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, and many others. We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement: Negligible travel should be expected with this role.

Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation.

Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working.

Legal Disclaimer: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status.