Cyber Security & data privacy internship
SkillLabNetherlands11 hours ago
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Welcome to SkillLab
At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has a pathway to employment. We enable and lead a radical change - a transition towards skill-based labor and education markets. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient markets by connecting people with jobs and education through the universal language of skills. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 35+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.
SkillLab’s innovative use of AI was recognised with awards like Google AI for Impact, UNESCO Top 10 uses of AI and the European Social Innovation Competition 2021, among other awards.
Your team
You will join SkillLab’s internal operations team that is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of SkillLab as an organisation. You will directly work with Felix who is one of SkillLab’s co-founders.
Other people that make up the internal operations team is Rwitu, our HR Business Partner, Elsa our Recruitment & People Operations Specialist, Tanya as our Finance Generalist and Tais as our people ops coordinator and events organiser. Learn more about the internal operations team here.
We are proud of the people we work with and excited to work at a company with a strong social mission. We hope you will be too!
Your opportunity
The role will support the security officer in managing information security across SkillLab.
You will be involved in and learn a lot about various activities:
We’d be especially happy if you have a study or previous work background in information security, cybersecurity or data privacy. Though we are also open to newcomers into the field.
At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has a pathway to employment. We enable and lead a radical change - a transition towards skill-based labor and education markets. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient markets by connecting people with jobs and education through the universal language of skills. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 35+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.
SkillLab’s innovative use of AI was recognised with awards like Google AI for Impact, UNESCO Top 10 uses of AI and the European Social Innovation Competition 2021, among other awards.
Your team
You will join SkillLab’s internal operations team that is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of SkillLab as an organisation. You will directly work with Felix who is one of SkillLab’s co-founders.
Other people that make up the internal operations team is Rwitu, our HR Business Partner, Elsa our Recruitment & People Operations Specialist, Tanya as our Finance Generalist and Tais as our people ops coordinator and events organiser. Learn more about the internal operations team here.
We are proud of the people we work with and excited to work at a company with a strong social mission. We hope you will be too!
Your opportunity
The role will support the security officer in managing information security across SkillLab.
You will be involved in and learn a lot about various activities:
- Support managing ISO 27001 information security management system
- Manage IT related onboarding and offboarding of SkillLabers
- Manage phishing campaigns and security awareness training
- Conduct research and implement projects across a variety of security domains within SkillLab’s operations
- Make and implement suggestions on how to improve our cyber security & data privacy through behaviour change, technical controls and policy measures
- Support the completion of larger security projects managed by the security officer
We’d be especially happy if you have a study or previous work background in information security, cybersecurity or data privacy. Though we are also open to newcomers into the field.
- You have a software engineering or relevant background and a demonstrated interest in cyber security, data privacy etc.
- You are currently enrolled as a student or graduated within the last 12 months from a Dutch or equivalent university.
- You are eligible to work in the Netherlands. We don’t support visa applications for applicants from outside the EU.
- You are able to commit to a full-time (40 hours) and six month internship.
- This is a paid internship. The monthly reimbursement will be 1.000 EUR.
- You can do the internship by living in another city in the Netherlands and commuting to the office 1-2 days per week. SkillLab covers your train commuting expenses to Amsterdam.
- We accept applications on rolling basis and we envision a start date in September 2025.
- You will have a personal learning budget to invest in your professional development.
- You will have access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
- You will have access to a monthly flexible budget of benefits via Alleo app. You can spend this budget on a large selection of providers, ranging from gym memberships to bike subscriptions and online stores.
- You will join our bi-annual company offsite retreats in different locations like Belgium, the Netherlands etc.
- You apply for the role and we review your profile.
- We will invite you for a short screening call.
- We will invite you for a 60min interview if we find that you are a good fit. The interview will involve you preparing a short assignment.
- We will offer you the internship and discuss logistics, if we think that you are the ideal candidate for the role.
- This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the internship position and may be subject to change based on the organization's requirements and priorities.
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