Details:
- Location: Gillingham Medway
- Date: 3 days ago
Description:
Role: Senior Information Governance Officer
Contract Length: TBC
Location: Medway - hybrid or fully remote for the right candidate.
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Information Governance Officer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR INFORMATION GOVERNANCE OFFICER
The Senior Information Governance (SIG) Officer will report to the Head of Information Governance as part of a team responsible for ensuring that the Council is compliant with Information Laws; this includes but is not limited to the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), UK-GDPR, the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI), the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
The primary role of the post holder is to support the overall development, management and delivery of the Council’s IG Strategy and work programmes; to oversee data processing practices, ensuring that they meet all statutory requirements, the provision of advice, guidance, and auditing ensuring compliance with the legislations and any requirements of the Information Commissioner, as the Supervisory Authority.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR INFORMATION GOVERNANCE OFFICER
* Previous experience of working in Information Governance roles
* Previous experience of managing privacy, risk and data impact assessments
* Extensive experience in handling data breaches, complaints and assisting with the ICO requests
* Understanding of ROPA and its management
* Experience in writing data sharing/processing agreements.
If you are a Senior Information Governance Officer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.
Applying to this or any other vacancy advertised by Spinwell Ltd constitutes an agreement for Spinwell Ltd to hold your details for 24 months for the purpose of assessing suitability for the advertised position and to make you aware of any other positions deemed suitable of which You will make you aware by means of either email, text or phone. In line with GDPR regulations you are able to request your details be removed from the company data at any time by emailing us