Senior Policy Officer, Innovation Hub
Temporary appointment, expected to last until July 2021
Salary £36,851 - £47,464, plus pension and excellent benefits
The ICO is looking for a Senior...
Temporary appointment, expected to last until July 2021
Salary £36,851 - £47,464, plus pension and excellent benefits
The ICO is looking for a Senior Policy Officer to join the Innovation Hub within our Innovation Department. The Innovation Hub works collaboratively with businesses, regulators and other organisations to provide advice on the development of innovative products and services. Taking a proactive approach to privacy issues, the team offers a steer to innovating firms on good data protection practice where the novel nature of emerging data-driven technologies may result in uncertainty in how the legislation should be interpreted or applied.
This is an exciting opportunity to help us shape the development and use of ground-breaking technologies and approaches, and influence information rights practices of innovative businesses and start-ups.
About the ICO
The ICO is the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.
The ICO’s work is interesting and immensely rewarding – it is of national importance and increasingly in the public eye. We are at the forefront of information rights policy development, providing direct advice to the public, and enforcing the UK’s data protection and freedom of information laws. We hold a unique position as a regulator across the whole of the private, public and third sectors.
About the Innovation Department
The Innovation Department is responsible for leading the ICO’s work on the privacy and data protection issues arising from new and innovative uses of personal data. It deals with some of the most high profile issues of the day, from the increasing amount of personalisation and profiling taking place in online environments, to the assessment of risk when deploying new and novel technology. The department plays an important role engaging with government, regulators, industry, and leading academics. Our role is to influence stakeholders and support innovators taking a data protection by-design approach to the development of new products and services.
About you
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of working with complex information which could include legislation or operational rules and procedures. Experience of applying data protection or associated legislation will be an advantage.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to analyse complex issues and formulate clear and persuasive arguments for a range of audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate and maintain good relationships with senior officials in assigned stakeholder areas.
How to apply
Please click APPLY to visit the Vacancies page of our website, and submit your CV and covering letter (saved and uploaded as one single document) explaining how you meet the 3 criteria detailed in the ‘About you’ section of the advert, and also outlining your other relevant skills and experience.
The ICO is committed to Equal Opportunities in employment and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Kindly also complete the equal opportunities section only of the application form.
Closing Date
Applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Sunday 22 November 2020.
Please note if you are appointed to work with the ICO you will be required to complete security clearance processes. These include identity and qualification checks and a Basic Disclosure level check of unspent criminal convictions.
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