Data Protection Lead - London, United Kingdom - Department for International Trade

Department for International Trade

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London, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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- £38,052 - £45,354

National: £38,052 £41,912; London: £41,553 £45,354
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DIT
Trading System: Export Control
Type of role:
Commercial
Knowledge and Information Management
Project Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Darlington, LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

The Department for International Trade (DIT) helps businesses export, drives inward and outward investment, negotiates market access and trade deals and champions free trade.

The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU) is based in DIT and brings together operational and policy and operational expertise from DIT with advisory teams from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

We regulate military and other sensitive exports such as dual-use items.

This is done through a licensing system, ensuring UK exports are consistent with our national and international obligations and standards.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future direction of a high-profile team with a challenging and very interesting agenda.

The Unit is undergoing a digital transformation which brings with it significant potential business benefits, but in a complicated and challenging context.

This role is located within the data and statistics team.

As data protection lead, your primary role will be to manage ECJUs data protection responsibilities, ensuring we comply with the necessary data protection legislation, establishing/maintaining positive working relationships between ECJU and the central Data Protection and GDPR team and a range of other relevant stakeholders (including Information Asset Owners; other government departments; privacy and data protection campaign/advocacy groups; etc.).

Alongside this, you will provide some project and contract management support for the legacy licencing system as we transition to a new platform.

You will need to be a proactive self-starter, well organised and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders. It is a challenging role that offers an opportunity to learn new skills. Project and contract management experience isn't essential, but data protection experience is required.

We welcome flexible working requests as part of this role.

Job description:

Reporting directly to the Grade 7 Head of Data, you will lead the day-to-day ECJU data protection function and provide strategic project and contract management support for the legacy licencing system (SPIRE) as we transition to a new platform (LITE).

Key responsibilities include:

Establishing and maintaining a robust governance framework within ECJU that will support compliance with data protection legislation.
Working collaboratively with colleagues in the Knowledge and Information Management teams, including the Data Protection and GDPR team, to ensure data protection compliance is integrated into ECJU policies, standards and procedures.
Ensuring all data collection, processing and sharing on the legacy licencing system (SPIRE) is compliant with data protection legislation.
Working collaboratively with the LITE project to ensure we remain compliant with data protection legislation as we transition to the new licencing platform.
Provide support to ECJU Information Asset Owners/Managers in fulfilling their obligations, including commitments such as keeping an ECJU Information Asset register up to date.
Ensuring the necessary data sharing arrangements are in place for sharing commercially sensitive data and/or personal data across ECJU, DIT and other government departments.
Raising awareness of the importance of data protection across ECJU via a range of activities including workshops, teachins and 121 sessions.
Identify and manage data protection related risks, ensuring these are captured on the necessary risk registers and are understood in full.
Providing project management support for the SPIRE system when working with operational colleagues across ECJU, ensuring any required developments, fixes etc. are fully understood and specified, and where required these are costed, planned, and rolled out to the live system.
Working with finance colleagues within ECJU and wider DIT to ensure the SPIRE supplier is paid when required, and monitor/forecast spend under the contract.
Working with commercial colleagues within DIT to provide contract management support for the existing SPIRE contract, ensuring the contract is in place and fit for purpose until LITE (the new licencing platform) is fully operational.
Working with the LITE project to support and ensure dual running of the two systems alongside one another.