Information Governance Officer

Job Description

Base salary: £41092 pa to £48344 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits – see our Benefits section on the website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

• Define, implement, and monitor a governance framework to guide the use of data across HS2.
• Develop HS2's IT information governance & assurance approach, focusing on treating data as an asset and maintaining wider organisational compliance.
• Assure continuation of standard approach for the technical assessment of HS2 information systems against information assurance policies and business objectives.
• Develop information assurance policy, standards and guidelines.
• Provide advice and guidance to ensure adoption of and adherence to information assurance architectures, strategies, policies, standards and guidelines.
• Contribute to the development of organisational strategies that address the evolving business risk and information control requirements.
• Identify typical data risk indicators and plan for prevention measures, leveraging HS2's available data.
• Recognise decisions that are beyond their scope and responsibility level and escalates those decisions accordingly.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

• Information management. Ability to plan, implement and control the full life cycle management of digitally organised information and records.
• Information security. Ability to define, operate and maintain a framework of security controls. Can also identify and communicate security risks that arise from technical solution architectures.
• Information assurance. Ability to review and perform risk assessment and treatment plans against managing risks related to the use, storage and transmission of data and information systems.
• Governance. Ability to define and operate a framework for making decisions, managing stakeholder relationships, and identifying legitimate authority for IT.
• Data management. Ability to develop, implement and assess the integrity of plans, policies, and practices that control, protect and optimise the value of data assets. Can also provide advice on the transformation of data from one format to another.

• Knowledge of various information assurance policies and standards, with a focus on industry trends.
• Knowledge of data storage tools used in HS2 projects.
• Knowledge of digital information technology, trends, and the opportunities they present.

• Experience in translating business requirements into engineered solutions aligned with architectural standards, in particular analytics solutions.
• Experience managing data as an asset inside a major organisation with similar compliance and risk management constraints.
• Experience in setting and complying with information policy directives.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship licence from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time‑bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre‑employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

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