Head of Data Privacy

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

- 382271

**Salary**:

- £67,126 - £71,795
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Grade 6

**Contract type**:

- Permanent
Loan
Secondment

**Length of employment**:
**Business area**:

- CO - Digital

**Type of role**:

- Architecture and Data

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- Bristol, Manchester

About the job

**Job summary**:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cabinet Office as the Head of Data Privacy.

This role is based within Cabinet Office Digital, where you will lead a team of data privacy and compliance professionals within our Data Function who provide a range of data privacy and compliance services, advice and assurance across the Cabinet Office.

As Head of Data Privacy, you will report to the Cabinet Office Chief Data Officer and become part of their influential leadership team. This will provide you with opportunities to contribute your expertise to thought-leading change initiatives and transformation programmes, and help drive forward the implementation of our Data Strategy which is taking the Cabinet Office on a journey towards data maturity and our vision for a ‘data confident Cabinet Office’.

You will also become part of the wider leadership cadre for CO Digital, supporting the commitment to putting user needs at the heart of everything we do, as we digitally enable and transform the Cabinet Office. This includes shaping and delivering digital and data services that both enhance user experience and augment outcomes, in line with strategic objectives to realise significant productivity and efficiency gains. As Head of Data Privacy you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that CO Digital’s approach to data privacy and compliance upholds the highest standards, whilst also taking opportunities to streamline our delivery to ensure we best meet the needs of the organisation and the expectations of the public we serve.

**Job description**:
As Head of Data Privacy, you will be responsible for ensuring Cabinet Office compliance with all data protection laws and regulations through the leadership, development and delivery of the data privacy target state outcomes in the Cabinet Office Data Strategy; by ensuring that clear organisation-wide policies, standards, guidance, training and procedures are in place and managed well to safeguard our employees' and stakeholder/customer personal information.

You will be responsible for the alignment of data privacy activities with wider organisational objectives and risk management policies. You will ensure that robust audit and monitoring processes are designed and operated effectively to identify, and communicate, data privacy risks and mitigation strategies to senior leaders and other stakeholders/external bodies. You will oversee the response to data privacy incidents, including investigation, reporting, and remediation.

You will be responsible for promoting a culture of data privacy awareness as part of building a more mature data culture. Working across the Cabinet Office and with digital delivery projects and change programmes, you will ensure security and compliance are built into product and technology ‘by design’; that data privacy is integrated into business processes so our valuable data assets are protected.

**Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:

- Providing strategic direction and leadership for the data privacy across the department and contributing to the leadership and management of the Data Function as part of the SMT.
- Management of core services such as DPIAs, self assessments, staff training, advisory service to business units and technology to support data privacy services with direct line management of 4 G7 Data Protection Managers and HEO.
- Working with peers and senior managers across the Cabinet Office to align data practices, procedures on Data Protection and measure performance of CO management units Data policy compliance.
- Monitor and assess compliance with data protection laws and internal policies through carrying out audits and self assessments.
- Manage Data Privacy governance structures, such as operational controls and wider assurance processes.
- Development of Data Risk Management framework looking across the department to convergence opportunities and the wider Op Model work in CO Digital
- Working with the Data Protection Officer to seek guidance on Legal & Regulatory data compliance topics and & provide escalation of issues on Data and Data Protection.
- Design and implement an optimal operating model/system to support the wider data culture change by supporting the various disciplines of data across Third Party Contract Management, Cyber and Security, Information Management, Knowledge and Records Management & Data Management.
- Provide direction and maintain the CO