The Insolvency Service
Information Rights Manager
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Job Summary
Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham. (Croydon and Stratford will only be available to existing employees of the Insolvency Service).
The Insolvency Service is a leading government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Information Rights Manager within our Information Governance team. We are responsible for handling the agency’s statutory responsibilities relating to information, such as Freedom of Information requests and Subject Access Requests.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 9 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability network group, Employee Assistance, Representatives, FACES Network Group, LGBT+, Mind Matters, Part Time Workers, The Shed - Men’s Network Group and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, through our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!
Job Description
The successful applicant will be expected to work 2-3 days per week in one of the Insolvency Offices nearest to their location.
The Insolvency Service is an Executive Agency of Department for Business and Trade (DBT). The service provides a range of important public services and enforcement activities associated with and arising from personal and corporate insolvency and corporate misconduct. DBT is the data controller for the Insolvency Service's personal data, alongside Official Receivers acting in their statutory role.
Reporting to the Head of Information Governance, the role of Information Rights Manager offers an exciting opportunity in an Agency that recognises the importance of managing, sharing and securing our valuable information assets.
You will manage a small Information Rights team focusing on data protection issues and will work closely alongside the Information Management and Information Security teams within Information Governance as well as with Information Asset Owners across the organisation to promote best practices.
We are seeking a strong individual with energy, enthusiasm and experience who will relish the opportunity and thrive in a challenging environment.
Responsibilities
As Information Rights Manager, you will support the Head of Information Governance, ensuring that the Insolvency Service is compliant with our legal obligations under information rights laws.
You will use your skills and experience to achieve this by:
- Working with colleagues in our parent department DBT (the data controller), forming part of the governance framework to ultimately support the CEO as Accounting Officer
- Establishing and leading a team who will strive to uphold the Information Rights of our customers, stakeholders and employees, being the Agency’s primary point of contact for data subjects
- Championing ‘privacy by design’ culture
- Bringing the Insolvency Service’s Information Rights Strategy to life by creating proportional, risk based policies, guidelines, and training requirements and by managing those risks and any resulting changes
- Monitoring GDPR compliance
- Engaging with internal stakeholders to understand the security measures behind the agency’s processing and managing responses to incidents
- Overseeing and reviewing the effective response to requests for Subject Access, Freedom of Information requests and delivering timely and high quality support and assurance on information rights issues across the agency and to its employees about their obligations under GDPR
- Advising on data sharing agreements, assessing the data protection impact of organisational changes, and maintaining the agency’s Records of Processing Activities
- Designing and delivering training for colleagues at all levels, including Information Asset Owners, Senior Management and third party processors.
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Person Specification
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to:
- Lead and manage a team, generating enthusiasm and confidence among team members and taking responsibility for their performance and development
- Work effectively and maintain high quality standards whilst under pressure, managing conflicting priorities and delivering to timescales
- Approach problem solving creatively and logically, identifying critical issues with ease, including technical and project risks, and designing mitigating solutions
- Build and maintain positive business relationships with a wide range of people using strong interpersonal and client-handling skills
- Engage and elicit information from stakeholders at all levels
- Demonstrate knowledge of UK and EU data protection law and practice
- Apply risk management principles to identify, prioritise and resolve issues effectively
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of Privacy by Design and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
- Hold, or be willing to work towards, a relevant professional qualification such as the British Computer Society Certificate in Data Protection (Practitioner level), PDP Data Protection or Freedom of Information Practitioner, or Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) (desirable).
Essential Criteria
Candidates must be able to demonstrate:
- Dedicated experience in the field of GDPR, LED and/or UK Data Protection
- A background in managing and implementing regulatory and/or international standards
- Risk management experience, using recognised risk management methodologies
- The ability to deliver against legislative responsibilities
- Experience of working in role dedicated to freedom of information and/or records management, ideally aligned with the GKIM framework or equivalent such as Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) or one of its derivatives
- Security or information risk experience, ideally with accompanying qualification, such as information security management principles certificate holder
- Experience of leading and managing a team, including responsibility for team performance and development.
Further Information
Proof of qualification(s) held will be required at interview.
Please note: This vacancy is advertised across 11 locations; however, Stratford and Croydon are only available to current Insolvency Service Staff. The advertised salary includes London weighting, which is only applicable to internal candidates.
National Security Vetting (NSV) will be conducted prior to undertaking this role.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
Alongside your salary of £48,429, Insolvency Service contributes £14,029 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).
We Want You To Have a Good Work-life Balance And Want To Support You In All That You Do, So We Offer a Great Benefits Package Including:
- Flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
- Full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service
- In addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
- Competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
- 5 days paid leave for learning and development
- 5 days paid for volunteering
- A Cycle to work scheme
- Staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life
Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where the employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take-home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution; and your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. For more information, visit www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
As part of the sift process, you will be asked to complete:
- CV
- Personal Statement
- Behaviours
- Behaviour 1 – Communicating and Influencing
- Behaviour 2 - Making Effective Decisions
Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the CV, assessing candidates against the essential criteria. Only those who meet the essential criteria at this stage will proceed to a full assessment of their application. If a candidate does not meet the minimum requirements during the initial sift, the remainder of their application will not be reviewed. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.
Where high volumes of strong applications are expected or received, we may raise the ‘benchmark’ minimum score required at the sift stage. If a high volume of candidates meet the benchmark score, we may further raise the score required for interview selection. Scores will be applied fairly and consistently.
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