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Information Governance and Data Protection Officer, Belfast

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Belfast, United Kingdom

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Other

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Yes

Job Reference:

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

Job Description:

Your new company

A public sector organisation is recruiting an Information Governance and Data Protection Officer. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring the organisation's compliance with data protection regulations and fostering a culture of privacy. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to assess, implement, and manage data protection measures and policies.

Your new role

• Serve as primary point of contact for all data protection and privacy-related matters.
• Liaise with regulatory authorities and act as the organisation's representative for privacy matters and lead incident response efforts in the event of data breaches or privacy incidents.
• Raise awareness of and promote a positive data protection culture including training of staff.
• Advise business areas on requirements of the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and the risks associated with data processing operations, considering the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing.
• Take a lead on systems transformation to optimise the management and secure storage and retrieval of data and corporate information through, for example, the migration to Content Manager and other such initiatives in line with best practice.
• Assist business areas in implementing appropriate data sharing agreements with external partners and stakeholder organisations, and assess data sharing agreements from other parties.
• Review and update data protection, governance and information assurance policies and provide training to staff as required.
• Lead on responses to and disclosure of all requests in accordance with statutory deadlines and advise on complex requests.
• Review, update and monitor records management and retention to ensure compliance with legislation and best practices.
• Facilitate reviews and updates of the Corporate Risk Register and support the organisation’s Risk Management Strategy.

What you'll need to succeed

• A degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Desirable - Data Protection Officer certification.
• Minimum of three years' NI Public sector data compliance experience, preferably within a regulatory environment.
• Experience with data protection impact assessments.
• Experience supporting governance projects to improve records management activities.
• Demonstrable experience managing GDPR, FOI, SAR, and EIR requests within compliant timescales.
• Practical knowledge and ability to interpret legislation and complex decision notices is desirable.

What you'll get in return

• Hourly rate of £ (Salary of £34,834)
• 6 months initially (possibility of extension)
• Hybrid working: 2 days in office, 3 remote.
• Flexible working scheme