Director of Ico Legal Service

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Information Commissioner's Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 294520**Salary**:

- £79,804 - £102,949- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Other**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- ICO - Legal**Type of role**:

- Legal Services**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- London (region), North West England, ScotlandAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the independent regulator of information rights. In a data-driven world, we provide advice, guidance, and support to organisations enabling compliance with their obligations, as well as protecting individuals and their personal data.

As an employer, we are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives and careers of our people, and we empower you to be curious, impactful, collaborative and respectful.

**Job description**:
Our Legal Enforcement Directorate works with teams across the ICO to bring enforcement action for breaches of data protection law.

The role will involve:

- Managing, and providing legal advice in relation to, high profile data protection enforcement cases.
- Producing high quality legal analysis on a range of data protection law issues.
- Drafting provisional and final decisions (including notices of intent, enforcement notices and monetary penalty notices).
- Presenting legal and strategic advice to the Commissioner and other senior ICO decision makers.
- Working alongside the ICO’s litigation team to provide substantive input on appeals of the ICO’s enforcement cases and on ICO interventions in high profile data protection litigation.

Reporting to, and supporting, the General Counsel, you will work with fellow Legal Directors to provide strategic leadership to the legal teams which lead enforcement action on behalf of the ICO.

Working closely with other senior leaders to develop and implement the ICO’s Enforcement strategy, you will ensure action is taken which is effective, proportionate and enhances compliant privacy and information rights practice by organisations.

As a member of the ICO’s Senior Leadership Team, you will support and collaborate closely with other senior leaders to ensure the ICO is run, managed, and governed in line with our corporate vision and values, and adheres to the obligations placed on the organisation as an eminent regulator and service provider. You will:

- Provide senior leadership to an effective legal function which covers both criminal and civil matters, ensuring that lawyers are well managed.
- Ensure that enforcement action and appeal cases are taken forward in a manner which is robust, proportionate, encourages compliant information rights practices, and dis-incentivises deliberate or negligent breaches of information rights law by individuals and organisations.
- Provide high-quality legal advice and support to senior managers, lawyers and other colleagues, providing challenge and technical input where appropriate.
- Ensure proper governance, quality, and ethical standards are met during the course of investigations.
- Develop and implement national and international partnerships with law enforcement bodies and data protection authorities to achieve effective cross-jurisdiction investigations and enforcement action.
- Take responsibility and be accountable for achieving the ICO’s strategic priorities, translating these into clear and deliverable objectives for the departments within the directorate and providing the energy and drive to achieve them.
- Manage strategic relationships, both within and external to the ICO, in particular negotiating and influencing others to achieve desired outcomes.
- Make effective, confident and timely decisions, involving relevant Heads of Department, technical experts and consulting others where needed, articulating options and making recommendations for preferred courses of action.
- Lead and inspire teams across multiple disciplines, communicating effectively to achieve staff engagement and being a visible and credible leader.
- Champion the development of staff, creating an inclusive environment which values diversity, encourages learning and development and identifies and acts where capabilities need to be improved.
- Use initiative, be innovative and seek opportunities for strategic change to deliver world class services. Seek, encourage and recognise ideas and have the courage to take risks and change how things are done, challenging the status quo appropriately where required.
- Represent ICO and its values effectively at senior level in engagements and presentations nationally and internationally for the Commissioner, undertaking some travel across the UK and EU to ensure organisational goals are delivered.
- Support, and where necessary deputise for, the General Counsel or other senior staff members, maintaining a strong insight and under

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