Data Protection Support Officer – (Ref: 5320)

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

This position can be based at  London or National

The MMO CV Template must be used. Applications made not using the template will be rejected. 

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Driven by government’s aim for clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas, MMO’s purpose is to protect and enhance our precious marine environment and support UK economic growth by enabling sustainable marine activities and development.

We are the independent regulator for England’s seas, professionally delivering service-focussed outcomes for our customers.

We are a team of around 400 people and combine our Newcastle upon Tyne and London operations with a local presence around the English coastline in Brixham, Beverley, Harwich, Hastings, Lowestoft, North Shields, Hayle, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Preston, Scarborough, Shoreham, Whitehaven.

We also have colleagues based in Defra offices, including Bristol, Cambridge and York where we share office space.

More information about our work is on the GOV.UK website and you can read the MMO’s Story here.

Job description  

The MMO CV Template must be used. Applications made not using the template will be rejected. 

This dynamic and engaging role offers the right candidate the opportunity to support all areas of our diverse organisation to work with personal data, consistently, confidently, and in compliance with legislation. The wide-ranging work includes working with colleagues improving the marine licensing process, send surveys to marine plan stakeholders, and planning international data transfer with overseas territories.

The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) Team supports the MMO Senior Responsible Owner (Director of D&A) in discharging their responsibilities for information risk. The team leads the MMO’s information security, data protection, technical assurance, and information management functions.

In this role, you will: 

• Provide specialist data protection knowledge within the MMO.
• Support MMO’s Data Protection Manager, MMO colleagues, stakeholders, SRO, and Information Asset Owners (Directors) in identifying, documenting, and managing/mitigating information risks.
• Cover for the Data Protection Manager when needed, engaging with Senior Stakeholders.
• Use own expertise to develop guidance documents on data protection, including DP policies, processes, training, and communications.
• Develop MMO’s data protection reporting and escalation mechanisms for data protection related issues, including data protection breaches.
• Liaise with subject matter experts across Defra Group including the Data Protection Officer and be able to make own judgement on how MMO data protection should align and deviate.
• Provide additional support to records management and information security assurance across MMO.
• actively engage in continuous improvement and documentation of the team’s services and evolving ways of working.   

For full details, please see the Candidate Pack attached.

FAILURE TO USE THE MMO CV TEMPLATE ATTACHED WILL RESULT IN YOUR APPLICATION NOT BEING SIFTED.

Please refer to Job Description

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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Job contact :

• Name : Alex Rea
• Email : alex.rea@MarineManagement.org.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : defra-recruitment-enquiries@gov.sscl.com