Temporary Governance Officer/Admin Job Ref: Bournemouth 5258892
Pay Rate: £15.18 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 1-2 months
City: Bournemouth, Dorset
Fully remote The purpose of the role is to provide expertise and support to management by managing and collating governance information and assessing performance against corporate frameworks to ensure that services meet a range of robust information governance standards.
Key Responsibilities: Assess current service compliance against well-defined information governance standards, performing regular checks and audit activities to enable compliance in GDPR, Freedom of Information Act and other relevant codes of practice. Co-ordinate the process for requests for information within the service by circulating them to the appropriate officers and collating responses, ensuring that the information supplied to the requester is returned within the relevant legislative timescale and is compliant. Maintain records and registers in accordance with defined information management criteria to ensure services remain compliant with information governance frameworks. This will include maintaining an Information Asset Register, and supporting the development and implementation of a records management process. Undertake investigations into internal data protection breaches to provide reports, documentation, and recommendations for promoting best practice to management so that lessons can be learned, and future breaches minimised. Manage the process of privacy notices, fair processing statements and consent, and conduct privacy impact assessments ensuring senior managers receive guidance regarding privacy requirements. Qualifications: NVQ Level 4 or HND in Data Protection, Law, and Information Governance, or equivalent. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Knowledge of GDPR, practices, and legislation. Experience in tracking and responding to FOI requests. Experience in responding to SAR requests and redacting file notes. Practical working knowledge of relevant data protection acts and codes of practice. Knowledge of corporate information governance framework, standards, policies, and processes. Experience of managing confidential and sensitive personal data and producing and presenting clear summary information and reports. Experience of preparing guidance and information, and contributing to the development of processes to meet defined information governance standards. Ability to provide information to others and communicate information and outcomes in a clear manner. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). #J-18808-Ljbffr