Data Protection Officer

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced individual to join the team as a Data Protection Officer

This is a full time role working 40 hours Monday - Friday.

**What do we offer?**
- £40,000 - £48,000 per annum
- We offer amazing benefits such as enhanced family leave policies, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, Pet lovers Friday, enhanced sick pay, study support and much much more.
- We also offer enhanced annual leave including your birthday day off and a day off when you buy your house - we believe that you deserve to celebrate special moments with your loved ones. Family always comes first at ub

**What will you do?**
- Upholding and enhancing processes for handling data privacy requests.
- Monitoring the Data Controller mailbox and collaborating with stakeholders to address queries.
- Identifying and escalating complex privacy-related queries.
- Maintaining process inventories and facilitating regular reviews.
- Conducting reviews of cookie practices on urbanbubble websites and ensuring compliance.
- Ensuring a deep understanding of data protection requirements across the business.
- Evaluate the existing data protection framework to identify areas of non or partial compliance, and rectify any issues
- Facilitating the annual review and approval of Data Protection policies to ensure ongoing compliance.
- Supporting with incident management
- Serve as the contact point for the ICO (or other relevant supervisory authority) on all data protection issues, including data breach reporting
- Provide expert advice and educate employees on important data compliance requirements
- Inform and advise the organisation and its employees of their data protection obligations
- Monitor compliance with the GDPR and internal data protection policies and procedure, through quality and audit checks, with appropriate remedial action taken
- Oversee the assignment of responsibilities across the organisation, embedding this as the cultural norm
- Devise training plans and material to ensure the right level of knowledge and competence exists

**What we are looking for?**
- Experience with UK GDPR and the ability to interpret large and complex data sets.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Microsoft Purview (desirable)
- Proven experience in a privacy role, with excellent technical and people skills.
- Significant experience in managing records, information and data protection.
- Comprehensive understanding of the business-critical nature of information assets
- Understanding of how to build, implement and manage data protection programmes is essential
- Ability to assist colleagues to fully utilise, store and protect information assets, in line with legislation.
- Excellent project management skills
- Experience in legal, audit and/or risk management.
- A solid understanding of current data protection law and a good, working understanding of the requirements of GDPR and the Public Records (Scotland) Act

**Desirable qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related field is advantageous
- A foundation level Data Protection qualification/certificate.
- CIPP/E, CIPT, CIPM, or other relevant certifications

**We’re not your usual property company. We’re the North West’s leading property managing agent.** At urbanbubble, we’re redefining the way properties are run through community building, customer care, and innovation. Thanks to our team, that delivers outstanding customer experiences, we’re proud to serve 14,000 residents and growing. We’re looking for bold, ambitious, resourceful team members to manage and create communities. We want to unlimit what our customers expect, whilst unleashing your true potential. So, what do you say - interested?

**urbanbubble **requires people who are professional, hardworking, innovative, and passionate; who are effective in their roles, and who truly engage with the customer.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and invite applicants to contact us to identify any additional support you may need during the recruitment process.