Information Governance Trainee

**About us**

We are agile, engaging and collaborative.

Our work environment includes:

- Growth opportunities
- Work-from-home days
- **About the Role**

**Key duties and responsibilities**:

- Support the Lead Consultant and/or Consultants to complete client work;
- Work well under instructions and within agreed timelines;
- Conduct research and interpret legislation, regulations and/or guidance and provide a digest to fee earners;
- Study, attend classes and take any necessary exams to develop your knowledge base;
- Empower our clients to develop and support their solutions - so they can be self-sufficient adopters of the latest technologies;
- Bring your technical expertise to the client, wherever they are. You’ll help them to develop and maintain cutting-edge solutions, so they remain competitive;
- Perfect your consulting skills to a high standard and professional level, ready to work with our prestigious clients;
- Aim to provide the company and its client’s with relevant and up-to-date advice on information security matters in any given project;
- When ready, provide consistent and high quality guidance and advice to clients on data protection and information security matters;
- Support the Data Protection Consultants in delivering training and communication to key stakeholders;
- Work with the business to deal effectively with issue management and data protection matters and if required this will include complaints from customers and employees;
- Data Protection Act 2018;
- UK GDPR;
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR);
- Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR);
- Any new or developing data protection regulations. Lead and promote data protection and information security compliance across our client’s business;
- Maintain Records of Processing documents;
- Manage and maintain the company’s data protection policies and procedures;
- Lead data protection by design and conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) where appropriate;
- Manage personal data breaches;
- Where appropriate, conduct data protection and information security training;
- If required, assist in reviewing and negotiating contracts with data controllers and data processors;
- Monitor third party governance risk and compliance.

**The perks**
- For the right person, the opportunity to enter into a structured training programme paid for by the company to expand your knowledge base and develop all the skills you will need to be successful in this role.
- Competitive salary and opportunity for this to increase post-training.
- Pension scheme.
- To be part of a up and coming consultancy outfit where the sky is the limit.
- Help clients to realise the potential of their data and how to use it to benefit all humans.
- Enable the NHS and leading universities to conduct cutting edge research so they can improve patient’s lives and battle pandemics.
- Continued support to help you fulfil your potential - you’ll keep advancing your technical skills throughout your career with us.

**What we need from you**
- Loyalty and integrity.
- Minimum - An undergraduate degree (2.1 or higher).
- A genuine passion for law and technology.
- Discipline to be able to work remotely and fulfil your duties.
- Enthusiasm and willingness to learn tonnes of new skills and new technologies.
- A willingness to advance the companies goals and the realisation what benefits the company will benefit your ongoing growth (both financial and wellbeing).
- Excited at the prospect of working somewhere new (travel expenses covered) - part of the job is working wherever the customer is (when things return to “normal”).
- A go-getter with a can-do attitude.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Graduate, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Performance bonus

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London