HM Revenue & Customs
Data Governance Lead
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Job summary
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Data and Risking Services provides digital solutions to help HMRC manage risk, intelligence and compliance effectively. The team ensures that critical processes are supported by secure systems, smart tools, and innovative solutions that maximise resources and strengthen HMRC's ability to tackle risk and reduce the tax gap.
The Data Governance Lead will report to the Senior Data Governance Lead within the Data and Risking Services Corporate Centre. The team are responsible for ensuring appropriate data governance models are in place for ingesting and sharing of data both internally and externally. The team manage the data governance of cross government data exchanges, ensuring data sharing is legal, proportionate and in line with Data Protection regulations.
You will lead the end-to-end data lifecycle, supporting the movement of bulk data by preparing relevant data transfer documentation, such as Process Memorandum of Understanding (pMoU), Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and Certificate of Review and Assurance CoRA, and engaging with all relevant stakeholders (internal and external).
Job Description
Your duties will include:
- Drafting and development of data exchange documentation - Memorandum of Understanding, Data Protection Impact Assessment and Certificate of Review & Assurance. This will include engagement with cross-government stakeholders, Security & Information Business Partners, Data Analysts and HMRC Central Policy when required, to prepare documentation, checking for accuracy prior to data transfer.
- Ensuring all data exchanges and retention are UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) compliant.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to resolve data exchange issues and security incidents.
- Ensuring compliance with Data Security and External Data Exchange Team (EDE) policies by working with Security & Information Business Partners and external stakeholders to complete assurance checks on data exchanges and data handling, capturing, and escalating any issues as required.
- Proactively sharing knowledge and best practice with data governance colleagues and updating relevant documentation and Team guidance.
- Maintaining management information on data exchanges, including benefit realisation data and responding to demand-led MIS requests as required.
- Responding to any ad-hoc requests received for Data Acquisition, working closely with relevant colleagues within that area.
Person specification
We are looking for someone who has an understanding of data governance models and UK GDPR, and is passionate about data security.
You will have the personal drive, initiative and ability to work with minimal supervision and at pace, often engaging in high profile cross government exchanges.
You will be confident building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across HMRC and other government departments to develop and deliver important data exchange documents and will be able to work flexibly to tight deadlines.
Essential Criteria
To be considered for this role, your application must demonstrate all of the following:
- Experience of drafting and development of data exchange documentation including Process Memorandum of Understanding (PMOU), Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA), Record of Processing Activity (ROPA) and Certificate of Review and Assurance (CoRA).
- Demonstrable understanding of GDPR principles relating to data security.
- Experience of conducting assurance or compliance activity.
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Further Location Information
Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a 'Further Location Preferences (optional)' field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.
Office Closures
If your location preference is for the following site, it's important to note that this is not a long-term site for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
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The Site Is
Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £37,682, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,916 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
To find out more about HMRC benefits and find out what it's really like to work for HMRC hear from our insiders or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service
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Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide:
- A name-blind CV with a 500-word Job History section. Provide relevant details from the last 3 roles, plus any others you feel are relevant, and include a brief description of your responsibilities and achievements, aligned to the key responsibilities for this role.
The Job History section does not restrict wordcount - anything over the specified wordcount will not be reviewed, resulting in information you feel is relevant not being assessed.
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- A Personal Statement up to 750-words. Use this to provide evidence to demonstrate how you meet the Essential Criteria, and working examples and outcomes that demonstrate how your experience aligns with the requirements of the role, including the key responsibilities.
Sift
If we receive a large number of applications, an initial sift may be conducted on the Personal Statement only.
At full sift your CV and Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
During the panel interview, you will be assessed on Behaviours and Experience.
Behaviours: we recommend that you review the Success Profiles framework and consider working examples and outcomes that demonstrate the Behaviours listed above. A typical example of a Behaviour question might be 'Tell us about a time where you've had to deliver a difficult message'. We will assess the following Behaviours:
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
Experience: you will be asked specific questions to assess your experience in a particular aspect of the role. An example of a typical Experience question is "Can you tell me about a time you have been involved in governance development, what was your role and what was the end result?"
Interviews will be held via video link (MS Teams) with a panel of up to 3 people and will last up to 60 minutes. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk - Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example - 'Please re-open my application - [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]'.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
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