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Salary band: E
Contract type: Permanent – full time
Department: Data Privacy
Job Location: Cardiff
Proposed salary range: 41,000.00 GBP - 62,000.00 GBP

Purpose of the role:
Join us as a Senior Privacy Data Officer where you will report to the Data Protection Officer developing processes and systems to ensure the BBC handles personal data lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. In this role you will facilitate the development and maintenance of products and services to transform business capabilities and enable the next generation of Broadcast and Digital services.

Why join the team?
Be part of the Data Protection Office, a team of innovative individuals working together and with the wider organisation to develop new capabilities and technological solutions to organise data and shape a personal BBC for our audiences. We do this by providing advice and operational assistance with the practical implication of complying with relevant legislation, regulation and best practice.

Your key responsibilities and impact:

• Work with the DPO and Operational Privacy Manager to implement systems and controls to ensure compliance with relevant data protection legislation and regulation.

• Be proficient in the BBC's privacy by design process, providing technical and practical knowledge, insight and guidance to peers and colleagues pan-BBC.

• Support stakeholders to navigate compliant use of personal data for new products, services and changes to business processes.

• Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments and other privacy risk assessments, with a focus on high risk/complex processing activities.

• Drive a positive privacy awareness culture throughout the BBC

Your skills and experience

• Working in a related role that involves the practical delivery of privacy and assessment of risk into product or service design

• Practical knowledge and application of key data protection legislation (including PECR), and an awareness of upcoming regulatory changes that will impact BBC online products and processes, and internal business services

• Assessing and drafting complex risk assessments

• Drafting privacy notices/policies

• Working pro-actively collaboratively and business partnering across a diverse range of mid-senior level stakeholders

Desired but not required:

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note:

If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks;
Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

• Fair pay and flexible benefits specific to your location and contract type.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

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