What You’ll Be Doing

• Support the day-to-day coordination and response to individual rights requests, including subject access, erasure, rectification, restriction, portability, and objection requests.
• Liaise with stakeholders across the Group to obtain relevant information, review and collate documentation, and help prepare accurate and compliant responses.
• Maintain complete and accurate records of requests, correspondence, actions, and outcomes.
• Monitor deadlines and follow up outstanding actions to support timely responses.
• Recognise and escalate complex, sensitive, or high-risk matters appropriately.
• Help gather information and maintain records for Data Protection Impact Assessments, Legitimate Interest Assessments, and Registers of Processing Activities.
• Support due diligence reviews and data protection audits.
• Assist with updates to policies, procedures, processes, and Privacy Notices.
• Coordinate and track actions relating to the wider privacy programme.
• Support data protection awareness activities and other compliance work.
• Provide colleagues with basic guidance on individual rights request processes, escalating more complex questions when required.

Our Hiring Process

1. You’ve checked out our job ad.
2. It’s gathered your interest and you’ve applied using our easy application process.
3. If selected, you will be invited to attend an interview at our Leicester Head Office.
4. If successful, we make the offer and get the ball rolling.
5. Once in post, you can even recommend your friends to join us and earn a sweet referral bonus - for each one!

Requirements

• You will be highly organised, dependable, and comfortable managing multiple tasks and deadlines.
• You will have excellent attention to detail and understand the importance of confidentiality when handling personal data and sensitive correspondence.
• You will be confident communicating with stakeholders across different areas of the business, whether requesting information, following up actions, or providing clear process updates.
• You will also know when a matter requires specialist input and be comfortable escalating it appropriately.
• You will bring some experience of individual rights requests, particularly subject access requests, or previous experience within data protection, compliance, legal, customer service, or business support.
• A basic knowledge of UK GDPR, data protection legislation, and PECR is also required, as is a demonstrable interest in developing your knowledge and building a career within data protection and privacy.
• Experience using case-management, workflow-tracking, or document-management systems would also be helpful, together with confidence using Microsoft Office to maintain records and monitor deadlines.

Offers will be made against the £30,000.00-35,000.00 salary banding in line with a candidate's existing skills and experience, as well as interview performance. For transparency, offers in line with £30,000.00 would be considered suitable for candidates with some relevant data protection, compliance, or subject access request experience who still require guidance on less routine matters, with offers made at the upper end reserved for candidates with proven experience of managing most routine individual rights requests independently, escalating only complex, sensitive, or high-risk matters.

Our People

Simplify believes diversity brings benefits for our clients, our business, and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

About Us

Simplify is the UK’s leading conveyancing and property services business, comprising nine businesses which include some of the largest conveyancing law firms in the UK, two leading independent property services businesses, as well as being the market.