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Data Protection Professional
2 days/week at home
A little flex time – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements depending on the role you apply for – explore your options with our recruiter during the application process.
Job Description
Job title: Data Protection Professional
Location: Preston. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role.
Salary: Circa £32,000 depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Support the Shared Services Personal Data Protection Lead (DP Lead) in ensuring the business is compliant with Personal Data Protection policy and meets GDPR regulations.
- Assist the DP Lead in undertaking data protection investigations, ensuring that all incidents, post recovery, have underlying root cause and corrective actions that drive prevention are tracked
- Analyse incident data and risks to determine if there are trends/ themes/ reoccurring themes pinpointing weaknesses in controls for further assurance focus
- Support the DP Lead with audits across Shared Services
- Facilitate and monitor the completion of Privacy Impact Assessments for new processing activities
- Support the DP Lead in ensuring appropriate training on data protection matters is available and is delivered appropriately
- Facilitate and monitor updates for the Processing Activities undertaken by Shared Services
- Manage incoming communications through team mailbox, assessing and directing as appropriate
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- An understanding of the importance of Personal Data Protection
- Desire to work towards a CIPM or CIPP/E qualification (if not already held)
- Knowledge of root cause analysis
- IT literate (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sharepoint) & comfortable learning the operation of new IT systems to support role delivery
- Knowledge of risk management
Desirable:
- Interest in Information & Records Management and Quality
- Experience in undertaking Personal Data Protection incident investigations and/or governance
- Knowledge and experience of information and data protection controls
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts.
The Quality Team:
The Quality Team works across the BAE Systems Shared Services business to drive a ‘right first time’ culture, focusing on prediction and prevention of problems before they can impact delivery. The team works closely with the Operational Excellence, Legal and other functional teams to ensure an integrated approach to continual improvement.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”
Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
Closing Date: 7th August 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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