Information Compliance Officer
Dorset Council
Dorchester DT2, UK
Published 1 week ago
Business Compliance
About The Role
The Information Compliance Team sits within the Assurance Service at Dorset Council. We coordinate the council's responses to information requests, including Subject Access Requests (SARs) for personal data, Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests, in accordance with statutory timescales. We also have a team of SAR Review Officers, who focus on reviewing and preparing Children's Services records for disclosure in response to SAR requests. The team is also tasked with maintaining a register of data breaches, and to provide advice to services to ensure the organisation properly responds to and learns from incidents.
The role is an opportunity to gain a broad insight into the wide range of services that make up the council, and will involve working with many different teams and personnel at all levels of the organisation. You will be required to help services efficiently respond to information requests and help ensure information risk events are appropriately managed. The role could be performed on a job-share basis, with flexible family-friendly hours. Whilst based at County Hall in Dorchester, where possible we support a flexible approach to working, enabling a mix of home and office-based working.
You will support the team managing information risk events (e.g. personal data breaches) and information requests. This will include recording and maintaining caseload records and liaising with services for responses. You may be required to help produce reports and assist the team in capturing lessons learnt from cases that have arisen.
Duties include:
Further Information
For any queries, please contact [email protected] , or [email protected] .
This is a part time role at 21 hours per week.
This post requires you to have access to sensitive information. It will be subject to a Basic Criminal Records Check. See our policy on the employment of ex-offenders .
About Us
We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.
At Dorset Council we:
We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.
We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.
We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours . We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
If appointed, the personal information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .
This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.
We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.
Find out more about how to apply .
The Information Compliance Team sits within the Assurance Service at Dorset Council. We coordinate the council's responses to information requests, including Subject Access Requests (SARs) for personal data, Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests and Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) requests, in accordance with statutory timescales. We also have a team of SAR Review Officers, who focus on reviewing and preparing Children's Services records for disclosure in response to SAR requests. The team is also tasked with maintaining a register of data breaches, and to provide advice to services to ensure the organisation properly responds to and learns from incidents.
The role is an opportunity to gain a broad insight into the wide range of services that make up the council, and will involve working with many different teams and personnel at all levels of the organisation. You will be required to help services efficiently respond to information requests and help ensure information risk events are appropriately managed. The role could be performed on a job-share basis, with flexible family-friendly hours. Whilst based at County Hall in Dorchester, where possible we support a flexible approach to working, enabling a mix of home and office-based working.
You will support the team managing information risk events (e.g. personal data breaches) and information requests. This will include recording and maintaining caseload records and liaising with services for responses. You may be required to help produce reports and assist the team in capturing lessons learnt from cases that have arisen.
Duties include:
- Processing SARs, FOIs and EIRs at first contact, through to completion
- Investigating data breaches
- Logging Police requests
- Office based admin duties e.g. scanning and printing
- pro-active and flexible
- confident exercising their own initiative in solving problems
- ability to assess, manage, and prioritise conflicting work priorities
- accuracy, attention to detail and an analytical mindset
- excellent IT skills and a digital mindset
- good organisational skills
- strong communication (written and oral)
Further Information
For any queries, please contact [email protected] , or [email protected] .
This is a part time role at 21 hours per week.
This post requires you to have access to sensitive information. It will be subject to a Basic Criminal Records Check. See our policy on the employment of ex-offenders .
About Us
We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.
At Dorset Council we:
- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success
- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression
We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.
We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.
We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours . We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
If appointed, the personal information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .
This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.
We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.
Find out more about how to apply .