Privacy Fellow

Summary

Wikimedia envisions a world where the total of human knowledge is available to everyone. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and free educational projects, serves as the hub of a movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world. As Wikimedia pursues a new strategic direction, our Legal department is tasked with solving many legal questions, including some that no one has fully considered before. We are looking for a privacy-focused lawyer to join our in-house legal department as Privacy Fellow. The Privacy Fellow will provide research and drafting on a variety of topics, as well as gain experience in product counseling, data governance, and privacy-related public policy work. The Privacy Fellow will monitor current developments around the world to help the legal department adapt to changing regulations and promote people’s ability to participate in knowledge online. This position provides an immersive in-house experience with specific education and mentorship in the areas of internet regulation, data governance, and privacy law.

This position will report to the Wikimedia Foundation’s Senior Legal Counsel.

Who Should Apply

At Wikimedia, we serve the world. We believe that there is no way to meaningfully achieve our goal of reaching every single human unless our organization reflects the full breadth of the human experience. To that end, the Wikimedia Foundation recruits candidates from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, including those from historically marginalized groups — women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming, first and second generation immigrants, and people from low-income families. A diversity of lived experiences is reflective of those who create and use Wikimedia every day.

Essential Functions of Role

• Work individually and in teams under the supervision of attorneys on Wikimedia Foundation’s privacy team, on new and developing issues related to privacy.
• Research and offer guidance to the Foundation on existing and developing data protection regimes around the world.
• Assist the privacy team in its efforts to monitor global developments in privacy that may affect free knowledge.
• Manage and administer several ongoing projects under the supervision of the Foundation legal team.
• Work cross-departmentally with colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve legal questions and provide counsel.
• Availability for meetings during at least some Pacific Time business hours.
• Occasional other legal projects as assigned.

Skills and Experience

• Graduate degree in law, public policy, or related fields and excellent academic credentials. (Equivalent experience will be considered.)
• Ability to work in English.
• Experience working across borders, on matters in non-U.S. jurisdictions, or for clients outside the U.S..
• Deep understanding of privacy and