# Senior Data Protection Advisor

**Company**: Department for Business and Trade
**Location**: Belfast, Northern Ireland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 44,913 - 53,230 per year
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate helps to deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day.

As a Senior Data Protection Advisor, you will support the department's operational data protection risk assurance function, ensuring personal data is handled lawfully, securely and responsibly while enabling the effective delivery of departmental priorities.

You will work in a small specialist team, provide expert advice on complex and high-risk Data Protection Impact Assessments, and work closely with stakeholders across Digital, Knowledge and Information Management, Legal and business areas to enable innovation, digital transformation and the responsible use of data, including emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

**Main responsibilities**

- Lead complex, high-profile and high-risk Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) reviews from triage to sign-off, providing authoritative risk assurance and practical mitigation for the Department’s most challenging processing activities

- Work with teams and suppliers to identify and mitigate data protection risks, making sure actions are taken and tracked using the right tools.

- Ensure DPIA recommendations and risks are clearly documented and the Record of Processing Activity (RoPA) for the processing is accurate.

- Liaise with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Data Protection Officer (DPO) when medium/high risks have been identified.

- Drafting/assuring privacy notices, data sharing agreements, and Article 28 clauses: coordinate with Cyber, Commercial and Technology subject matter experts.

- Lead or support ICO consultation (where required) and prepare clear, decision-ready risk products for senior governance forums (e.g., ARAC).

- Administrate BIST’s Data Protection Assurance platform, identifying and implementing improvements to meet business needs while ensuring compliance with data protection legislation.

- Line-manage junior analysts and provide key leadership within the Data Protection Team

**Person specification**

- Data protection expertise and risk assurance: Strong knowledge of data protection legislation, including UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and ICO guidance, with the ability to apply this expertise to complex DPIA reviews, identify and assess privacy risks, exercise sound professional judgement and recommend proportionate, practical mitigations. (Lead)

- Management skills with the ability to confidently support a team and to flexibly manage resources.

- Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

- An ability to build productive working relationships with colleagues, customers, and internal and external stakeholders.

- Possess strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex information to a variety of stakeholders.

**Benefits**

- Learning and development tailored to your role

- An environment with flexible working options

- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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## Skills

### Required
- Data Protection
- Risk Assurance
- UK GDPR
- Data Protection Act 2018
- ICO guidance
- Artificial Intelligence

### Nice to have
- Relevant professional qualification in Data Protection
- Knowledge of KIM profession and associated information legislation and standards
- Cyber risks or assurance frameworks

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