Website Register & Compliance Specialist in London

Full Time / Fixed Term - 6 months

Workplace: Leeds, Manchester or London. The expectation is 2 days in the office.

Role Summary

The Website Register & Compliance Specialist is a focused, 6-month contract role responsible for establishing, designing, and launching the organisation’s centralised website asset register and digital web footprint governance process. Reporting to the Data Governance Lead, this role serves as the project lead to ensure all corporate web properties are identified, thoroughly documented, and brought into legal and technical compliance. Operating on a 'hub and spoke' model, you will build the strategic centre—writing the initial frameworks, designing the registration workflows, and establishing compliance playbooks—while engaging and up-skilling local business units to ensure they can maintain operational compliance once the contract concludes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Website Asset Management Framework Establishment: Design and implement the central oversight framework for all websites owned or managed by the organisation in accordance with legal, technical, and company requirements.
• Enhance the Centralised Website Register: Map out, audit, and build a dynamic, scalable inventory of all web assets, documenting critical information such as business owners, hosting locations, active/inactive status, and purpose.
• CMP Audit & Integration: Review and support the auditing and standardised implementation of Consent Management Platforms (CMPs) and cookie banners across discovered sites.
• Process Design & Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Brand Protection (Domains Registry), Cyber Security, Technology, and Data Privacy to design, develop, and embed a smooth, permanent operational process for joined up Domain and Website asset management.
• Pre-Deployment Workflow: Define and embed a clear compliance gatekeeping check for internal business units and marketing teams to ensure future web assets, third-party tags, and tracking scripts undergo compliance checks prior to deployment.
• Policy and Standards: Support the embedding of website compliance standards, asset registries, and digital governance playbooks for BAU (Business As Usual) adoption.
• Training & Handover: Educate key stakeholders and hand over documentation to permanent colleagues to ensure long‑term tracking compliance.

Essential skills

• Proven experience in establishing or implementing Web Governance frameworks, Digital Compliance processes, or Digital Asset Registers, ideally in a contract or project-delivery capacity.
• Solid understanding of data privacy frameworks (e.g., UK GDPR, PECR) specifically as they relate to electronic privacy, tracking cookies, and online user consent.
• Hands‑on experience with website auditing tools, Consent Management Platforms (e.g., OneTrust, Cookiebot), and digital asset register setups.
• Exceptional ability to influence and drive operational change quickly across diverse teams (marketing, IT, product owners) without direct line management authority.
• Direct experience translating complex privacy/technical requirements into simple, user‑friendly business workflows and forms.
• Experience creating clear training materials, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and handover documentation to ensure the process survives post‑contract.
• Proven ability to manage relationships and drive accountability with key technical and non‑technical stakeholders rapidly.
• Experience identifying and triaging website compliance risks, with the ability to articulate these risks clearly to the Data Governance Lead.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating complex digital concepts for both technical developers and non‑technical business leaders.

Desired skills

• Previously delivered digital compliance or register projects within media or public services.
• Experience working with coding languages e.g., Python / SQL and repositories e.g., GitHub (to build, customise, or script website auditing tools).
• Hold relevant industry qualifications in Digital Governance, Data Management (e.g., CDMP), or Privacy/Compliance (e.g., CIPP/E).
• Familiarity with project management and ticketing tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) to map workflows and compliance intake requests.
• A broad understanding of wider information security and privacy frameworks—specifically the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to ensure the newly established digital web governance aligns with broader corporate information security goals.