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Data Protection Partner
We are currently looking for an experienced Data Protection Partner to join our Data Protection Team. You'll be aligned to a specific functional or departmental area - partnering to ensure alignment with the service wide data protection strategy and risk appetite and ensuring we comply with our legal obligations
Contract: Fixed term contract 12 months
Working hours: 35 hours per week is full time. Where possible, we are open to considering part time/flexible working patterns. Please let us know in your application your desired working pattern.
Salary: Circa £52,000
Reporting to: Data Protection Officer
London docklands
O ur permanent hybrid policy sees us all working at least four days across a fortnight in the office.
You'll be an expert in the field of data protection and have a strong knowledge of the legislation, feeling confident to provide solutions-focused data protection subject matter expertise, work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate data protection risks and identify migrating controls, build strong relatonships with senior leaders, and embed privacy by design into all activities.
You'll be able to juggle and prioritise different pieces of work by balancing relationship management and privacy advice and support on major projects against providing advice on smaller privacy impact assessments (PIAs), managing our data protection training programme, policies and procedures and our data protection dashboard. As well as contributing to our response to potentially high-risk data breaches, ensuring we take prompt action to minimise the consequences of breaches, and learn from our mistakes.
Key responsibilities
Providing solutions-focused data protection subject matter expertise on projects, workstreams and other activities across the Service
Working in partnership with other teams across the Service to help evaluate and understand data protection risk on projects, workstreams or other activity, and the associated mitigating controls, to ensure that privacy impact assessments and data protection impact assessments identify and minimise the data protection risks
Managing risks and issues and communicating those that impact on data protection work to the relevant projects or areas of the organisation
Using our privacy management tools to create accurate and timely data protection dashboards and reports on key data protection performance indicators for the DPO, our data protection governance committees, the executive committee and Board
Actively managing our data protection training programme and ensuring it is kept up to date and aligned with our data security and data quality training programme
Identifying gaps in existing data protection policies, feeding these back to the DPO and Deputy DPO to ensure our policies, procedures, privacy notices and guidance notes remain up to date
Actively managing our policy, procedures and tools for tracking privacy and data protection impact assessments
Working in partnership with our records management and information governance teams to ensure that our formal, documented Records of Processing (ROPA) is regularly reviewed
Contributing to our response to potentially high-risk data breaches, ensuring we take prompt action to minimise the consequences of breaches, and learn from our mistakes
Caring about the confidential and personal data you'll be handling - and treating information like this with discretion and sensitivity
Keeping abreast of data protection legislation and news to assist with keeping the role relevant and the application accurate
Helping the whole organisation comply with relevant legislative and statutory requirements for data protection - including through training, promoting good practices and improving awareness of relevant policies and procedures
To be considered for this role, you'll need to show us that you've got the skills and capabilities. You'll have to meet the following minimum criteria:
Minimum Criteria
Demonstrate experience managing risks and issues and communicating the impact to relevant stakeholders
Experience of influencing and persuading at a senior level - and experience of stakeholder management
Be an outstanding communicator and listener with the ability to collaborate and build great working relationships with your stakeholders
Have strong prioritisation skills and able to effectively manage user expectations
Demonstrate the skills and knowledge required for the role
Why Financial Ombudsman Service?
We are a values led organisation. Our values define our culture, influence our decisions, and underpin our vision and strategy. They set out how we play our PART through Purpose, Ambition, Respect and Trust. You can learn more about our values here:
We also offer an attractive, competitive salary and flexible benefits to suit our people. Here's a list of some of the many benefits and perks you can get for working with us:
How do I apply?
Applications need to be submitted by 23:59 Monday 22nd January 2024
Successful applications will be invited to interview week commencing 29th January 2024
Due to high application numbers this advert may end earlier than the date specified, so please don't delay and apply now!
A full job profile is available on request and will be provided to candidates shortlisted to the first stage of the assessment process.
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We view diversity as fundamental to our success and welcome applications from underrepresented groups across all communities.
We're committed to being a great place to work- attracting and developing people from the widest possible range of backgrounds. We want everyone to perform at their best and feel able to be themselves. We understand that if we're diverse and inclusive, we'll better understand different perspectives, which is fundamental to our job resolving financial complaints.
We welcome applications from Black and other ethnic minority candidates, and female candidates, for all positions and particularly so for senior leader positions as they are under-represented within the Financial Ombudsman Service at this level.
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