Information Officer

Location

Worcester, Worcestershire | United Kingdom

Job description

Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.

Information Officer

Worcester based with a balance of home and office working

£30,396 per year

35 hours per week – Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 17:00pm

12 month secondment opportunity available upon current line management approval

Temporary position for up to 12 months

We have an opportunity for an Information Officer to join our Data Protection team which sits within our wider Legal and Governance service, based in Worcester. The team of 4 is responsible for providing high quality advice, support and guidance on data protection and information regulations and legislation across Sanctuary. 

The role of Information Officer will include:

• Supporting to the company on day-to-day data protection issues including establishing, maintaining and refreshing compliance policies and procedures, guidance, documentation, toolkits, training and undertaking data protection audits
• Providing high quality advice, support and guidance on data protection and information regulations and legislation across the company, covering all aspects of data protection law and information law
• Providing advice to Sanctuary employees on the rights of data subjects, reviewing and advising on data processing agreements and data sharing arrangements, data transfer agreements, standard contractual clauses, technical and organisational measures and privacy notices
• Coordinating and supporting the data protection champion network across the Group.

Skills and experiences:

• Recent experience undertaking a similar role
• Excellent knowledge of data protection, particularly GDPR with attention to detail
• Some experience of Data Protection practices in a medium to large organisation
• Some experience of reviewing policies and procedures.
• Good communication skills
• Proficient user of Microsoft packages, including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams

Why work for us?

One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.

Our Benefits

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays (pro rata)
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
• £30,396 per annum

Closing Date: 13 March 2024

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

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Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. 
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.

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