Senior Data Protection Lawyer

BBC Group and Public Services; London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Data Protection Lawyer to join their dynamic team in London. This role involves providing expert legal advice on data protection and privacy legislation, contributing to the development of legal strategies, and managing a diverse workload. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years PQE, a strong academic background, and experience in the media sector. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this organization offers unrivalled training opportunities and a flexible working environment, making it an exciting place to advance your legal career.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

25 Days Annual Leave

Defined Pension Scheme

Discounted Health Care

Training and Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Legally qualified with expertise in data protection and privacy legislation.
• Experience in media law and application of UK GDPR.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on data protection and privacy legislation.
• Manage complex legal workload and supervise junior team members.

Skills

Data Protection Law

Privacy Legislation

Analytical Skills

Legal Advice

Negotiation Skills

Education

Qualified Lawyer (5+ years PQE)

Strong Academic Background

Job description

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Senior Data Protection Lawyer

Legal & Rights Management

Permanent - Full Time

London, GB, W1A 1AA

BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST

Job Closing Date: 20/05/25

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Senior Lawyer with expertise in all data protection law and privacy legislation relevant to the BBC to join our Commercial, Data Protection and Technology Legal team, based in our London W1 office. The role will report to the Legal Director, Commercial, Data Protection and Technology Legal team.

The BBC Legal Division is led by the BBC’s General Counsel and provides legal assistance & advice across the BBC. Our overall structure is like that found in private practice firms and we support on a wide range of diverse matters. Whilst this means the work can be challenging and relatively fast-paced at times, we are open to discussing agile ways of working to support our staff, where appropriate and in line with our flexible working policies.

Main Responsibilities

As Senior Lawyer you’ll provide senior level, commercially aware, in-depth legal advice on all aspects of data protection and privacy legislation relevant to all activities in the BBC including its application to transactional matters. You’ll also contribute to the development of the BBC’s legal strategy in respect of data protection and privacy. You will manage your own complex legal workload independently and will be responsible for work allocation to other members of the DP legal team based on risk level and urgency. You will supervise and develop more junior members of the team.

Are you the right candidate?

To be successful in this role, you will be legally qualified with a minimum of 5 years PQE gained within a leading law firm or chambers and/or specialist in-house team. You will possess a strong academic background and a significant level of knowledge of and experience in the application of the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. Experience of the media and demonstrable understanding of the acts and regulations and their implications for the media is required.

Confident to apply high level analytical skills to evaluate legal risk, you will use sound judgement based on the facts and information available to provide accurate, timely, practical and commercially focused legal advice to a wide range of stakeholders. You will have a proven ability to provide clear and succinct guidance to support policy and be able to lead negotiations and drafting on complex data sharing matters. As an effective, articulate communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, you will possess demonstrable experience of influencing key decision makers, underpinned by your resilient, pragmatic approach and ability to build and maintain effective client relationships at all levels, in a dynamic environment.

Highly organised and resilient you'll be comfortable managing a diverse workload to tight deadlines, often under pressure. You will be experienced in delivering training and presentations to a variety of audiences. You'll also need experience of supervising the work of more junior members of the team and working collaboratively alongside lawyers from other subject areas and the DPO team.

Why the BBC?

There is no other organisation like the BBC.

As the world’s largest and longest-standing public service broadcaster, we have a unique role that informs culture and democracy in the UK and overseas.

Attracting and retaining the very best talent is at the heart of delivering for our audiences. We are looking for people who are excited to help us build a culture that is creative, inclusive and full of opportunity, regardless of gender, disability, gender reassignment, race, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partnership, age, religion or belief.

We believe in providing equal opportunity and treatment for everyone and are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. Please do contact us if you need to talk through any support or reasonable adjustments, such as subtitles over zoom, extra time, or whatever will meet your needs at [e-mail].

Package Description

Band: E
Contract type Permanent
Location: London based with some hybrid-working
Job title: In-house title is Senior Lawyer
Salary: £95,000 to £105,000 pa (plus London Weighting £5,319pa), dependent upon experience

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.