Data Protection Specialist in Leicester

If you have experience working within data protection, compliance, legal administration or a closely related field and are looking to develop your career within a large and complex organisation, then keep reading!

Working as part of our Data Protection team, you will help co-ordinate and respond to individual rights requests accurately, securely and within the required timescales. You will work with colleagues across the Group to gather and review relevant information, maintain clear records and ensure actions are followed through. You will manage routine activity with appropriate guidance, escalating complex, sensitive or higher-risk matters to the Group Head of Data Protection or other specialist colleagues. Alongside individual rights requests, you will support the wider privacy programme, helping to maintain data protection documentation, coordinate compliance activity and track actions across the business. Organisation, attention to detail and sound judgement will be central to your success, particularly when handling confidential information and competing deadlines.

Most of the duties for this role can be completed remotely (within the UK), however occasional office presence will also be required, and so a willingness and ability to travel when needed is important. Our Head Office is in Leicester and is the main focal point of activity. Additional key sites include Northampton, Colchester, Leeds, Manchester, Southport, and Cambridge.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted the week commencing the 10th August with interviews scheduled to take place at our Leicester Head Office the following week.

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary of £30,000.00-35,000.00
• 25 Days' Holiday increasing with length of service Plus 8 Days' Public Holiday
• Pension
• Option To Buy Or Sell Holiday
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Pay
• Free Conveyancing Legals
• GP-24 Hour Service
• Retail Discounts Plus Many More!

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

You will support the day-to-day co-ordination and response to individual rights requests, including subject access, erasure, rectification, restriction, portability and objection requests. You will liaise with stakeholders across the Group to obtain relevant information, review and collate documentation, and help prepare accurate and compliant responses. You will also:

• Maintain complete and accurate records of requests, correspondence, actions and outcomes
• Monitor deadlines and follow up outstanding actions to support timely responses
• Recognise and escalate complex, sensitive or high-risk matters appropriately
• Help gather information and maintain records for Data Protection Impact Assessments, Legitimate Interest Assessments and Registers of Processing Activities
• Support due diligence reviews and data protection audits
• Assist with updates to policies, procedures, processes and Privacy Notices
• Coordinate and track actions relating to the wider privacy programme
• Support data protection awareness activities and other compliance work
• Provide colleagues with basic guidance on individual rights request processes, escalating more complex questions when required

REQUIREMENTS

You will be highly organised, dependable and comfortable managing multiple tasks and deadlines. You will have excellent attention to detail and understand the importance of confidentiality when handling personal data and sensitive correspondence. You will be confident communicating with stakeholders across different areas of the business, whether requesting information, following up actions or providing clear process updates. You will also know when a matter requires specialist input and be comfortable escalating it appropriately. You will bring some experience of individual rights requests, particularly subject access requests, or previous experience within data protection, compliance, legal, customer service or business support. A basic knowledge of UK GDPR, data protection legislation and PECR is also required, as is a demonstrable interest in developing your knowledge and building a career within data protection and privacy. Experience using case-management, workflow-tracking or document-management systems would also be helpful, together with confidence using Microsoft Office to maintain records and monitor deadlines.

Offers will be made against the £30,000.00-35,000.00 salary banding in line with a candidate's existing skills and experience, as well as interview performance. For transparency, offers in line with £30,000.00 would be considered suitable for candidates with some relevant data protection, compliance, or subject access request experience who still require guidance on less routine matters, with offers made at the upper end reserved for candidates with proven experience of managing most routine individual rights requests independently, escalating only complex, sensitive, or high-risk matters.

OUR PEOPLE

Simplify believes diversity brings benefits for our clients, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

ABOUT US

Simplify is the UK’s leading conveyancing and property services business, comprising nine businesses which include some of the largest conveyancing law firms in the UK, two leading independent property services businesses as well as being the market.