Legal Officer (Property & Contracts) - Council

Spinwell Global Limited; Basildon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Spinwell Global Limited is recruiting a Legal Officer (Property & Contracts) for a short-term contract in Basildon, with hybrid working and a minimum of three days on site each week.

You'll support the Information and Compliance Manager and the Data Protection Officer, advising on data privacy, reviewing policies and contracts, and maintaining processing activity logs while ensuring compliance with data protection legislation in a public sector setting.

Qualifications

• Relevant qualification and knowledge of Data Protection Act and UK GDPR
• Understanding of local and national government legislation
• Excellent IT skills, including SharePoint, Outlook Word and Excel
• Experience working in a local authority environment or data protection functions
• Experience handling public enquiries with high customer service
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for diverse audiences
• Team player with collaborative problem-solving approach
• Ability to build relationships with partner organisations

Responsibilities

• Assisting the Information and Compliance Manager and the Data Protection Officer in managing compliance with data protection laws
• Advising on data privacy matters and risk in processing operations
• Reviewing procedures, policies, privacy notices and contracts relating to processing of personal information
• Monitoring compliance with data protection audits
• Maintaining a register of processing activities and data lifecycle compliance
• Establishing, testing and monitoring the data breach response process
• Maintaining a log of data privacy incidents and follow-up actions
• Maintaining a log of complaints and actions taken
• Assisting in development and delivery of staff training on policies and obligations

Skills

Data protection

UK GDPR

Public sector experience

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

SharePoint

Outlook

Word

Excel

Job description

Role: Legal Officer (Property & Contracts) REF 24361
Contract Length: 2 months initially
Location: Hybrid/Basildon - minimum 3 days per week onsite
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: 35 per hour
Security Clearance: BPSS

About the Role

Spinwell is recruiting for a Legal Officer an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting the Information and Compliance Manager and the Data Protection Officer in managing and maintaining the compliance with data Protection and Freedom of information legislation.
• Advising on matters related to data privacy legislation and having due regard for risk relating processing operations, nature, scope, context and purpose of processing.
• Assisting in the review of procedure, policies, privacy notices, and contracts relating to processing of personal information.
• Assisting in the monitoring of compliance with data protection of related audits
• Assisting in the maintenance of a register of processing activities and data life cycles, ensuring that each is compliant with legislation
• Assisting in the establishment, testing, and monitoring of the data breach response process.
• Maintaining a log of any data privacy related incidents together with tracking resulting actions.
• Maintain a log of complaints received, and action taken.
• Assisting in the development and delivery of training as required to ensure that staff are adequately informed of policies and their obligations

Essential Skills and Experience

• Relevant qualification and knowledge of Data Protection Act and UK GDPR
• Understanding of local and national government legislation
• Excellent IT skills, including SharePoint, Outlook Word and Excel
• Experience working in a local authority environment, or experience of data protection functions in a relevant public or private organisations
• Experience of handling public enquiries to provide a high level of customer service
• Experience of working in a dynamic and complex environment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with ability to communicate to different audiences including elected members, officers of a public sector organisation and the public.
• A good team player with enthusiastic and collaborative approach to problem solving to ensure high performance across the team.
• Able to build and maintain relationships with colleagues in partner organisations.
• Focus on excellent customer service
• Ability to deal appropriately

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Degree in relevant fields
• Self-motivated and able to organise own and others' workload to meet deadlines.
• Experience with interacting with the data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR and Freedom of Information (FOI).

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