Information Governance Officer

Base salary: £41092 pa to £48344 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities. 

As the Information Governance Officer you will be responsible for leading governance and assurance activities, ensuring that data standards and policies are being adhered to across HS2. The role supports the development of a holistic approach to manage data as an asset inside HS2 IT.

About the role:

• Define, implement, and monitor a governance framework to guide the use of data across HS2.
• Develop HS2's IT information governance & assurance approach, focusing on treating data as an asset and maintaining wider organisational compliance.
• Assure continuation of standard approach for the technical assessment of HS2 information systems against information assurance polices and business objectives.
• Develop information assurance policy, standards and guidelines.
• Provide advice and guidance to ensure adoption of and adherence to information assurance architectures, strategies, policies, standards and guidelines
• Contribute to the development of organisational strategies that address the evolving business risk and information control requirements.
• Identify typical data risk indicators and plan for prevention measures, leveraging HS2's available data.
• Recognise decisions that are beyond their scope and responsibility level and escalate those decisions accordingly.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About you:

Skills:

• Information management. Ability to plan, implement and control the full life cycle management of digitally organised information and records. 
• Information security. Ability to define, operate and maintain a framework of security controls. Can also identify and communicate security risks that arise from technical solution architectures. 
• Information assurance. Ability to review and perform risk assessment and treatment plans against managing risks related to the use, storage and transmission of data and information systems.
• Governance. Ability to define and operate a framework for making decisions, managing stakeholder relationships, and identifying legitimate authority for IT.
• Data management. Ability to develop, implement and asses the integrity of plans, policies, and practices that control, protect and optimise the value of data assets. Can also provide advice on the transformation of data from one format to another.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of various information assurance polices and standards, with a focus on industry trends.
• Knowledge of data storage tools in used in HS2 projects.
• Knowledge of digital information technology, trends, and the opportunities they present.

Type of Experience:

• Experience in translating business requirements into engineered solutions aligned with architectural standards, in particular analytics solutions.
• Experience managing data as an asset inside a major organisation with similar compliance and risk management constraints.
• Experience in setting and complying with information policy directives.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.