Data Protection Intern

Are you a Master's student in a university or university of applied sciences and want to learn more about data protection? Are you interested in themes such as law, data protection and privacy?

We are looking for a data protection intern to join our team for four months, from September 1st 2025, to December 31st, 2025.

This internship is designed for international professionals eager to learn Finnish while working. Our goal is to ensure that individuals from diverse language and cultural backgrounds can smoothly work in the city, and learn the language needed in their jobs.

As a data protection intern, you will be working in the data protection team of the Education Division. We support schools, daycare centers, and other education providers in the city with both data protection and privacy related matters.

In this role, you will be working with various tasks, among other things:

• Review of privacy documentation on educational software and applications used by the Education Division
• Date requests: Handling of data requests from data subjects
• Legal case analysis: Going through legal databases and libraries to update our data protection instructions and processes
• Review sections of AI instructions intended for schools
  
  

You should have basic Finnish language skills, as the main working language is Finnish, with English used to support your tasks. We will support your Finnish language development throughout the internship and expect you to actively engage in improving your skills in everyday work situations.

You will join a team that values collaboration and mutual support as our key strengths, and we hope you share the same mindset. Our team fosters a psychologically safe environment for learning. Your workplace will be in Kalasatama, situated in our new and modern workspaces next to the metro station.

The salary for this position is 1786€ per month.

Please note that this data protection intern position is exclusively available to students pursuing their master's degree at a university or university of applied sciences during the employment contract. Relevant fields of study include (but are not limited to) Law and Administration Studies. If you are a student at a university of applied sciences, you should have accrued at least two years of work experience in your field.

Hopefully you like what you've read so far. We would love to hear from you!