Legal Assistant- French Speaking

About the job

Legal Assistant

A tech company in Cork is currently looking to expand their Privacy and Compliance

function. As a French speaking specialist, you will be responsible for dealing with

law enforcement agencies.

The Law Enforcement Compliance Legal Specialist (French Speaking) performs a

variety of tasks to support the Privacy & Law Enforcement Compliance function. As a Legal

Specialist on this team you will be responsible for processing and responding to requests

received from law enforcement agencies seeking access to customer information. You will

also be responsible for communicating official company positioning within established Data

Protection and Privacy principles.

The Legal Specialist responds directly to standard-level requests and identifies and raises

non-standard and exigent requests. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, reliable,

and possess the ability to resolve request issues in an effective and efficient manner. Legal

Specialists generally perform the key role tasks, but will also be required to support other

tasks as needed.

Key Role Tasks

• Processing requests received from law enforcement agencies for customer information and from customers for their personal information.
• Searching specified IS&T systems and retrieving appropriate information to include in standard-level responses.
• Responding to standard-level requests with appropriate pre-prepared response templates.
• Raising non-standard and exigent requests to appropriate management level.
• Recording and reporting on all requests, responses, and exceptional issues arising in the relevant IS&T database.

Key Personal Skills

• Strong IS&T proficiency with ability to work optimally across multiple applications and databases and observe high levels of data accuracy and attention to detail in daily work management.
• Good decision-making capability with ability to optimally recognise non-standard and exigent requests and raise accordingly.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to take the necessary initiative to resolve request-conflict issues.
• Ability to perform in an information sensitive environment and manage work activities within strict Data Protection, Privacy, and IS&T Security protocols.
• Fluent English, French language verbal and written skills required, ability to understand additional languages is a plus.