Senior Data Protection Officer

4 days ago


Stroud, United Kingdom Ecotricity Full time

**Location**:

- Stroud**Salary Details**:

- £45,000- £50,000 DoE**Advertising End Date**:

- 28 Jun 2024**About The Role**

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Ecotricity are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Data Protection Officer (DPO) to continue to meet our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The Senior DPO will ensure the monitoring of compliance against data practices internally across the Green Britain Group to ensure the business complies with the applicable requirements under the GDPR, with responsibilities for ensuring adequate staff training, data protection impact assessments, and Data Protection internal audits.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**

Within the role, you will be expected to work closely within the Regulatory Team including Regulation, Internal Audit along with Legal, Risk and Information Security.
- The Senior DPO will be the primary contact for all supervisory authorities and individuals whose data is processed by the organisation.
- Develop, enhance, and monitor policies and standards required by the business to ensure compliance with the GDPR.
- Monitoring changes to the UK privacy laws and effectively filter into the Group as appropriate.
- Ensure all relevant aspects of GDPR and any changes are embedded successfully into the Group.
- Work with key internal stakeholders across the Group for oversight of key data related projects to ensure compliance, and where necessary, ensure that privacy impact assessments are completed.
- Ensure all business queries are effectively actioned in a timely manner.
- Manage the Data Protection message implementing a monthly Data Protection Steerco for all key stakeholders developing initiatives to ensure active engagement with all key internal stakeholders.
- Conduct ongoing reviews and provide recommendations of the Groups privacy governance framework.
- Coordinating and conducting data privacy audits across the relevant Group organisations.
- Review and enhance Data and Privacy training [induction and fresher] across the Group.
- Review proposed appropriate supplier contracts to ensure compliance with GDPR.
- Ensure that all Records of processing activities are maintained and accurate in accordance with the ICO guidance.
- Ensure all IT systems and procedures comply with the relevant data privacy and protection law, regulation and policy (including in relation to the retention and destruction of data). Provide advice and guidance with mitigations where appropriate.

**About You**

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**Required knowledge and skills**
- Indepth knowledge of EU data privacy and data protection regulation, with an understanding of major privacy frameworks in addition to changes to the worldwide data protection legislation.
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with people at all levels within the organisation.
- Effective change and project management skills, with great time management skills and the ability to handle multiple deadlines prioritising as necessary.
- Excellent written and presentation skills.
- Detail orientated to support in the implementation of improvements.
- Ability to work independently, implementing discretion when making majority of decisions, while exercising leadership, and influence change.
- Manage the workload within the Data Protection team.
- Experience in managing policies, process mapping and development and implementation of Data Protection training.

**Work Experience**
- Solid experience within a compliance, legal, audit and/or risk function, with recent experience in privacy compliance.
- Educated to Degree level or the relevant experience.
- Certified Data Protection Officer (C-DPO)

**About Us**

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**What's in it for you...**

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including gym, shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

**Flexibility statement**

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity
- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain
- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too
- we build wind



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