Data Protection Specialist

Job Description

Circa £60,000 per annum, dependent on skills and experience Permanent and 30- 37 hours (open to considering full or part-time)Hybrid: Huntingdon and Home-working Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be Lancaster House in Huntingdon.Join our team and make a difference An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Data Protection Specialist to join our legal team here at Anglian Water. As the largest Water and Water Recycling company in England and Wales by geographic area, compliance with data protection legislation is centralto our business and we are committed to protecting the information of almost 7 million customers and our 5000 employees.As a Data Protection Specialist, you will work with our Legal Compliance Officer within our Legal Compliance Team to champion data protection and privacy across the business, contributing to, supporting and developing our culture of data protection and privacycompliance. This will include providing high quality and pragmatic data protection and privacy advice, as well as supporting our people to adopt best practice and comply with data protection and UK GDPR legislation, and other relevant legislation such as thePrivacy & Electronic Communications Regulations. Your pro-active nature and sound knowledge of data protection legislation will be key here in enabling you to work collaboratively and pragmatically with the business to facilitate compliant business activities.You will also play a key role in assisting our Legal Compliance Officer in supporting the completion and legal reviews of Data Protection Impact Assessments(DPIAs). You will be responsible for ensuring legal reviews of relevant DPIAs are carried out in anaccurate, timely and pragmatic manner, while always promoting the concept of privacy by design and by default.As a valued employee, youll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme - we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Lots of great discounts
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Paid time off when youre physically and mentally unwell
• An excellent Family Leave package - to help you support your family

What does it take to be a Data Protection Specialist

• You will either be a qualified Solicitor or Barrister (with a track record in carrying out DPIAs and experience in the application and implementation of Privacy by Design and by Default), OR an experienced Data Protection professional possessing a data protection& privacy professional qualification (e.g. BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection or equivalent).
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of UK data protection legislation and statutory regime, with a proven history of working in the field of data protection.
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills, experience of working successfully across business functions, managing key stakeholders and ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Ability to work autonomously, work well under pressure, be flexible and comfortable with ambiguity and managing a number of tasks at the same time working to tight deadlines.
• Pro-active and excellent problem solving skills.

Opportunities are open to all suitably qualified candidates.Why Anglian Water Anglian Water is not your typical water company. Just take a look at our Love Every Drop strategy that underpins everything that we do and youll start to get a feel for our culture. Its collaborative, innovative and inspiring. We put people at the heartof our business and we truly love what we do! If you care about excellent customer service, your career and the environment, then we want to hear from you. We believe that equal opportunities means inclusion, diversity and fair treatment for all.Closing date: Wednesday 21st September

Keyskills :
data protectionlegal complianceGDPR