Data Protection Associate

6 days ago

Reading, United Kingdom Project People Full time

**Data Protection Associate**

**Glasgow or Reading**

**Hybrid working (2 days/week in office)**

**06 months contract**

As part of the Data Protection team, the Data Protection Associate will provide support to facilitate client's compliance framework, including policies, processes, procedures and controls, in place to operate in line with its legal and regulatory obligations in relation to data protection.

There is a requirement to work on rota across weekends and bank holidays

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**Purpose of Role.**

Work through the increased number of Data Subject Access requests (DSARs) and Data Breach Reports that have arisen from fraud cases.

The client has seen a large increase in the number of people requesting DSARs and as such require someone to come in and help with collecting all the data, which will mainly be bills, and web chats (cases that are more complicated will be escalated to a specialist team)

Must have worked with DSARs in a B2C environment
- Assist the DPO and Deputy DPO in the development of appropriate policies and help influence key stakeholders to buy in to the policies, identifying and addressing gaps in compliance.
- Conduct GDPR compliance reviews with the DPO / Deputy DPO.
- Oversee and manage the public facing customer communication inbox, tracking activity, escalating issues and overseeing the successful completion of associated tasks.
- Support the DPO with the management of data breach prevention in the event of non-compliance. Ensure breaches are adequately controlled, escalated and addressed.
- Manage and oversee recording and mitigating any identified risk/non-compliance.
- Collaborate with the wider Risk and Compliance Team supporting ongoing team activity and developing team knowledge on GDPR.
- Maintain a DP knowledge base on the intranet.
- Liaise with customers where necessary or required.

**Qualifications**
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential; a people person skilled at building and maintaining relationships both internally and externally.
- Strong analytical and guidance/report writing skills - ability to perform detailed analysis and write clear concise reports and advisory briefs.
- Proven ability to implement change and manage processes.

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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