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Junior Privacy Advisor

Location: Remote (with occasional travel to Doncaster, Nuneaton & Cowley)
Contract: Permanent, full time
Salary: £28,000, plus 30 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Job

As Junior Privacy Advisor your role will be to provide support, advice, and training to the Unipart Group, its clients and suppliers with regard to the processing and safeguarding of personal data across the group. This includes assistance with incidents and responses.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

Support team members with their existing projects, regularly picking up new pieces of work to continue your development
Monitor the group mailbox for any Enquiries, Permission Requests, Share Requests, Data Incidents and work through the relevant response processes in order to triage or respond to each request/incident as necessary
Own the process of cataloguing new inbound work and help to assign this to the most appropriate member of the team
Assist the Data Protection Manager with workload management and resource allocation for the team
Provide support to the ongoing ROPA project, both assisting with the administration of the project and undertaking additional responsibilities in line with skills and experience.
Assist the team to progress the Data Mapping project, ensuring regular reporting is available to monitor progress against internal KPIs
Assist the team with general administrative tasks, such as file management and organisation
About You

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

A team player
Self-motivated and a willingness to learn
Display both initiative and proactive mindset
Exemplary timekeeping and a professional communication style
Must be happy to work both under instruction of others, as well as independently
Experience in previous admin-related roles (or roles with admin responsibilities making up a large proportion)
Previous experience working in a data protection role, or in a role involving some data protection related responsibilities is a benefit, but not a requirement
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following roles: Data Protection Assistant, Data Privacy Coordinator, Information Governance Assistant, Privacy Coordinator, Compliance Assistant, Risk and Compliance Administrator, Data Security Assistant, Information Security Coordinator, Legal Administrator, GDPR Coordinator, Compliance Administrator, Privacy Support Officer, Legal Assistant, Records Management Assistant, etc.

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