Join RSA and make a difference every day. 

Whether you are just beginning your career or looking to take the next progressive step in your journey, RSA Insurance Ireland is an organization where you can be yourself, learn and develop and a place where your ideas and contributions matter.  

With offices in Belfast, Galway, and Dublin, we have embraced hybrid work empowering our people to work flexibly and to suit their individual needs, which enables them to deliver great service to the customers we look after every day. Our Dublin office is also home to our sister-company 123.ie.        

At RSA and 123.ie we empower our customers to make a difference in their lives. And the same goes for our employees. We are proud to have 32 different nationalities represented in our workforce. Our diverse customer base benefits from the diverse perspectives of our teams that serve them, solving complex problems with creative ideas. 

As a proud member of the Intact family, we’re part of something bigger with a presence in North America, the UK, and Europe. Our business has grown organically and through acquisitions to over $21 billion of total annual premiums. 

We want you to thrive and grow with us – and we’ll give you all the tools, flexibility and learning opportunities you need to do it.

And, if you bring your best, then we promise to give you, our best. 

Culture and Community 

RSA is a purpose-driven business – our purpose is to ‘help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times, and be resilient in bad times’.  

We do that by living our values – Integrity, Respect, Customer-driven, Excellence, and Generosity – in everything that we do. 

We provide an open and honest workplace – where everybody contributes, and every view is listened-to and respected.  

Generosity is in our DNA and is the value that guides and enables our people to help others, protect the environment and make our communities more resilient. It drives our efforts to care for people and to give our time, financial resources and talent. We’re also committed to helping society adapt to a changing climate taking reasonable care to ensure that our business activities are conducted in an environmentally sustainable manner.  

Our stats don’t lie… in our annual engagement survey  

87% of our people celebrate the diversity in their teams and the wider company  

90% of our people feel safe to speak up and share if they’ve made a mistake  

91% of our people feel valued and respected by leadership  

89% of our people are benefiting and thriving through our hybrid working model 

So if you want to make a difference every day, we’d love to have you. 

Data Protection Specialist – Fixed Term Contract

Excellent opportunity to join an established Data Protection team. We are looking to hire a Data Protection Specialist as a fixed term contract.

This role will involve supporting to the Data Protection Officer and the wider business in relation to data protection compliance.

As the Data Protection Specialist will spend the majority of your time helping ensure that data subject rights are dealt with appropriately and helping the business with personal data breaches and data protection risk incidents.

You will work in a team environment, collaborating closely with and meeting the needs of internal customers. You will have good business and operational administration skills and experience. This role specifically covers Data Protection, with a focus on data subject rights and data breaches and incidents.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversight of data subject rights requests and liaising with other departments to close out on data subject rights requests.
• Prepare and issue data subject rights requests, collaborating closely with business areas as appropriate.
• Line 2 oversight and risk assessment of personal data breaches/incidents
• Raise any requests that are out of agreed processing timeline and proactively engage relevant business area(s)
• Contribute to management reporting in relation to data subject rights requests and other data protection KRI.
• Providing a wide range of administrative and support services to help the Data Protection Officer.
• Collating information and producing documents to support the operation and management of the business.
• Providing feedback to Data Protection Officer on emerging issues arising from subject rights or data protection incidents.
• Giving data protection advice and guidance to the business.

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Requirements:

• Role based in Galway, Dublin or Belfast.
• A reasonable understanding of data protection, to include the GDPR.
• Experience of administrative environments.
• Experience of prioritising/co-coordinating work and dealing with stakeholders.
• This is a great role for someone with data protection experience looking to gain experience in a multinational insurer or someone with good organisational skills and an ability to learn looking to move into the data protection field.

Regulatory Requirements:

This role is a "controlled function" as defined by the Central Bank Reform Act 2010 Regulations 2011. Any appointment will be conditional on the company being satisfied that you meet the requirements as set out in the Fitness & Probity standards issued in this Act. CF2.

RSA Insurance Ireland DAC and its affiliate companies consider applicants on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status