Hybrid Information Governance Assistant: Data Requests

thefutureworks; West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

thefutureworks is supporting Coventry University to recruit for an Information Governance Assistant. This role will provide support services and facilitate the efficient operation of the Information Governance Unit within the wider Legal and Governance team, including proactively managing a heavy workload, particularly in responding to data subject access and freedom of information requests.

The successful candidate will face challenges associated with managing heavy workloads and frequent

Responsibilities

• Dealing with data subject access requests, freedom of information requests and other requests for information, responding to data breaches, completing data protection impact assessments and compliance reports, and responding to general enquiries.
• Produce correspondence on behalf of the Information Governance Unit, including corresponding directly with data subjects, individuals making freedom of information requests, third parties submitting disclosure requests, and internal clients and stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that the information governance suite of template documents is kept up to date.
• Provide a significant contribution to the preparation, collection and collation of documents for external and internal audit and review.

Job description

thefutureworks is supporting Coventry University to recruit for an Information Governance Assistant. This role will provide support services and facilitate the efficient operation of the Information Governance Unit within the wider Legal and Governance team, including proactively managing a heavy workload, particularly in responding to data subject access and freedom of information requests.

The successful candidate will face challenges associated with managing heavy workloads and frequent