Data Protection Team Specialist

• Location: London (2 days a week in office near Camden, rest remote)
• Salary: £47,463 to £53,265 plus excellent benefits
• Job Type: Full-time

The successful candidate will act as a subject matter expert and support our Data Protection Officer.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Lead the Data Protection DPIA process on projects requiring Data Protection input and coordinate projects related to data protection.
• Manage team input to ensure broad understanding and business buy-in to the value of DPIAs, ensuring that agreed mitigating actions are effectively deployed.
• Create and maintain project records to meet Accountability Requirements.
• Assist with a risk-based compliance programme, mapping out priority areas and allocating responsibilities.
• Produce reports and KPIs to reflect workload and performance.
• Lead the team to ensure the service is responsive, high quality, and provides clear & consistent advice.
• Support the Team Leaders in training and development, and motivate the team to ensure an effective and efficient support service.
• Provide cover for Team Leaders where required, assisting with broader compliance activities such as breach management.
• Identify and deploy creative solutions to raise and maintain the profile of the team, ensuring privacy practices and policies are communicated and understood across the Group.
• Support the DPO in monitoring, reporting, and delivering the ongoing compliance regime.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience managing data protection related projects and working on data protection compliance programmes.
• Sound experience offering data protection advice on a broad range of topics, including breach management.
• Thorough understanding of existing data protection and privacy legislation, with excellent analytical skills to apply legislation practically.
• Experience creating high-quality documents, diagrams, and models, and maintaining records and Accountability documentation such as DPIAs and ROPAs.
• Good understanding of the Affordable Housing Sector.
• Current and relevant professional data protection qualification.
• Strong problem-solving ability, excellent communication and influencing skills, and ability to describe technical issues understandably to diverse audiences.
• Experience working to deadlines, prioritising complex tasks, and working autonomously as well as within a team.
• Experienced presenter.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary range.
• Hybrid working model with flexibility.
• Opportunities for professional development and training.
• Supportive team environment.