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Data Privacy Programme Management Training Course

Equips privacy leaders to design, run and mature an enterprise privacy programme, from governance and data inventories to impact assessments and subject rights.

DPGP · Data Privacy, Governance & ProtectionAll Levels#2561ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Data, Analytics & Digital TransformationCategories:Data Privacy, Governance & Protection

Course Overview

This advanced practical course focuses on designing, implementing, and managing enterprise data privacy programmes that translate privacy requirements into effective governance, operational controls, and measurable business practices. It addresses the management structures, policies, processes, roles, and capabilities required to establish a sustainable privacy programme. Participants will examine privacy programme strategy, governance structures, regulatory obligations, data inventories, privacy risk management, impact assessments, data subject rights, third-party privacy, incident management, and privacy by design. The programme emphasizes practical coordination between privacy, legal, compliance, information security, technology, procurement, HR, and business functions. The course also addresses privacy programme maturity, performance measurement, reporting, resource planning, awareness, training, and continuous improvement. Participants will work through practical scenarios to assess privacy risks, prioritize initiatives, establish programme controls, and manage privacy activities across the data lifecycle.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyse the strategic components of an enterprise data privacy programme.
  • Assess current privacy governance, capabilities, processes, and maturity.
  • Establish appropriate privacy roles, responsibilities, accountability, and decision rights.
  • Develop privacy policies, standards, procedures, and operating controls.
  • Map personal data processing activities and identify critical privacy risks.
  • Apply privacy risk assessment and privacy impact assessment methodologies.
  • Integrate privacy requirements into business, technology, procurement, and project processes.
  • Establish effective processes for managing data subject rights and privacy requests.
  • Develop third-party privacy management and contractual control mechanisms.
  • Strengthen privacy incident, breach, escalation, and response processes.
  • Establish privacy programme metrics, reporting mechanisms, and maturity assessments.
  • Develop a practical roadmap for implementing and continuously improving the privacy programme.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for Data Protection Officers, Privacy Officers, Privacy Programme Managers, Data Governance Managers, Compliance Managers, Legal and Regulatory Professionals, and information security leaders responsible for privacy management. It is also suitable for CIOs, CISOs, Chief Data Officers, Risk Managers, Internal Audit professionals, IT managers, procurement and vendor management teams, HR professionals, project managers, and business leaders involved in handling personal data. The programme is particularly relevant to organizations establishing, restructuring, or strengthening enterprise privacy programmes and seeking to integrate privacy governance with broader data, security, risk, compliance, and digital transformation initiatives.

Learning Outcomes

  • Assess the maturity and effectiveness of an existing privacy programme.
  • Define an enterprise privacy programme structure aligned with organizational objectives.
  • Establish privacy governance roles, responsibilities, and accountability.
  • Develop and maintain privacy policies, procedures, and operational controls.
  • Identify personal data processing activities and associated privacy risks.
  • Conduct structured privacy risk and impact assessments.
  • Integrate privacy controls into projects, systems, processes, and business operations.
  • Establish effective workflows for data subject rights and privacy requests.
  • Evaluate third-party and supplier privacy risks and control requirements.
  • Develop coordinated privacy incident and breach management processes.
  • Establish meaningful privacy performance indicators and management reporting.
  • Develop a prioritized privacy programme roadmap with measurable implementation milestones.

Course Outline

Day 1

Privacy Programme Strategy, Governance & Operating Model

  • Strategic role of enterprise data privacy programmes.
  • Privacy programme objectives, scope, and operating principles.
  • Privacy governance structures and organizational models.
  • Roles of privacy, legal, compliance, security, data, and business functions.
  • Defining accountability and decision rights.
  • Privacy policies, standards, procedures, and control frameworks.
  • Assessing privacy programme maturity and capability gaps.
  • Building the privacy programme operating model.
  • Practical Application: Conduct a privacy programme maturity assessment and design a governance and operating model for a target organization.
Day 2

Data Mapping, Privacy Risk & Impact Assessment

  • Personal data and processing activity identification.
  • Data inventories and records of processing activities.
  • Data flows and lifecycle analysis.
  • Identifying privacy risks across business processes and technologies.
  • Privacy risk assessment methodologies.
  • Privacy impact assessment principles and implementation.
  • Risk prioritization and treatment planning.
  • Data minimization, purpose limitation, retention, and access controls.
  • Monitoring privacy risks across the data lifecycle.
  • Practical Application: Develop a data processing map and complete a structured privacy risk and impact assessment for a selected business process.
Day 3

Privacy Operations, Data Subject Rights & Third-Party Management

  • Managing privacy requests and data subject rights.
  • Request intake, verification, workflow, response, and escalation.
  • Privacy by design and privacy requirements within projects.
  • Integrating privacy controls into technology and business processes.
  • Third-party and supplier privacy risk management.
  • Privacy requirements in contracts and service arrangements.
  • International data transfers and cross-border processing considerations.
  • Records, evidence, documentation, and audit readiness.
  • Practical Application: Design an end-to-end workflow for privacy requests and develop a third-party privacy assessment and control framework.
Day 4

Privacy Incidents, Compliance Monitoring & Programme Performance

  • Privacy incident identification and classification.
  • Data breach response and escalation processes.
  • Coordination between privacy, security, legal, communications, and management teams.
  • Investigation, documentation, and corrective actions.
  • Privacy compliance monitoring and assurance.
  • Internal assessments, audits, and evidence management.
  • Privacy programme metrics and key performance indicators.
  • Executive reporting and privacy dashboards.
  • Continuous monitoring of programme effectiveness.
  • Practical Application: Manage a simulated privacy incident from initial identification through assessment, escalation, response, corrective action, and management reporting.
Day 5

Privacy Programme Transformation, Resources & Continuous Improvement

  • Building a sustainable privacy programme.
  • Prioritizing privacy initiatives according to risk, business impact, and regulatory requirements.
  • Resource, budget, and capability planning.
  • Privacy awareness and organizational training.
  • Stakeholder engagement and privacy culture development.
  • Privacy technology and automation opportunities.
  • Programme performance reviews and maturity improvement.
  • Developing implementation phases and measurable milestones.
  • Establishing continuous improvement mechanisms.
  • Final Workshop: Develop a complete data privacy programme roadmap covering governance, data mapping, risk management, privacy operations, third-party controls, incident management, performance measures, resources, priorities, and implementation milestones.

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Madinah · 2 – 6 Nov 2026 · Classroom

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