Lawyer 80 - 100%
Kanton Zürich
Zürich
Key information
- Publication date:16 January 2026
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Zürich
Job summary
Join our team in Zurich to protect personal data and privacy.
Tasks
- Advise public bodies and individuals on data protection matters.
- Conduct data protection reviews and assess digital projects.
- Create publications and lead training on privacy topics.
Skills
- Hold a law degree with knowledge in data protection law.
- Experience in interdisciplinary environments and communication.
- Strong service orientation and responsibility in tasks.
Is this helpful?
«Our central task is to protect the personal data and thus the privacy of the residents of the canton of Zurich.»
For this purpose, the Data Protection Officer acts as an independent supervisory authority. It supervises the data processing of the cantonal administration, the municipalities, and the other authorities and public institutions in the canton of Zurich. Together with its team, it advises public bodies, conducts inspections, and informs the population about data protection issues and privacy protection topics.
Your tasks
You advise public bodies and private individuals, conduct inspections (data protection reviews), examine digitization projects of the canton or the municipalities, assess reports of data protection violations, and prepare opinions on data protection-relevant ordinances in the legislative process. In addition, you create publications (guidelines, web articles, articles for the activity report), conduct training and further education activities (lectures, seminars), and participate in topic-specific projects and working groups. In doing so, you deal with current topics such as the use of cloud services and AI generators.
Your profile
You are fascinated by digitization topics. You have a completed university degree in law and ideally already have knowledge of data protection and administrative law. Knowledge of information and IT law as well as information security is an advantage.
You have professional experience, enjoy working in an interdisciplinary environment, are used to working independently, are communicative, service-oriented, and responsible.
Our offer
You can expect a challenging activity in a socially highly topical environment with responsible tasks. In our committed and motivated team, you have great opportunities to participate and help shape. Our employment conditions are attractive and according to cantonal guidelines. Our offices are centrally located in the immediate vicinity of Zurich main station.
Have we aroused your interest?
Then we look forward to receiving your complete online application. For questions and information, you can contact Ms. Nicola Bonassi, Tel. 043 360 99 99 or datenschutz@dsb.zh.ch.
More about us: www.datenschutz.ch
Cantonal employment conditions: www.zh.ch
