We are seeking a Data Protection Business Partner – Maternity Cover on a 12-month FTC to join our Governance Team.

We’re offering an excellent salary of £36,754 plus some great benefits.

What is Lincolnshire Housing Partnership like to work for?

We’re a local housing association with our roots firmly fixed in our Grimsby and Boston communities, many of our colleagues were born in the same areas that we serve. This gives our teams an additional sense of purpose to improve the lives of our customers.

There is a strong sense of togetherness across the organisation, our culture encourages accountability, cross-departmental collaboration and we welcome the opportunity to improve through feedback. 

We have an agile working policy; therefore, colleagues are able to work from wherever is suitable to complete the task at hand. This might be at home, on site, at our office located in Boston or Grimsby, or somewhere else!

At LHP, we’re committed to creating great homes and strong communities. Our vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is to be an open, inclusive organisation that recognises and respects all our communities and supports everyone to thrive.

You can read our full EDI Vision at:https://www.lincolnshirehp.com/about-lhp/corporate/edi-vision/

What benefits will I get from working for Lincolnshire Housing Partnership?

• An employee wellbeing package worth up to £1200 annually through our benefits partner Westfield Health
• Discounted Shopping Vouchers through Westfield Health
• Opportunities to learn new skills and knowledge through our fantastic corporate training programme
• A superb employer salary sacrifice pension scheme with up to 12% paid by LHP
• 24 holiday days a year (plus bank holidays) which will increase by 1 day per year for the first five years of service
• The ability to earn additional holiday days through full attendance
• Mental Health First Aiders across the business, let’s be there for each other!
• Career Development & Encouragement

As the Data Protection Business Partner, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day activities of Data Protection and Information Governance to ensure ongoing compliance with current and future data protection regulations, and industry good practice.

You will work with key data and information holders to analyse business processes to create and maintain personal information data flow maps 

Establish good working relationships with key data and information holders and conduct internal audits to ensure that data protection policies, processes, systems/applications and procedures are being applied and are effective in meeting the current and future data protection legislation.

Capture and ensure that lessons learned from data incidents are incorporated into processes and procedures.

Be the main point of contact for the ICO, other regulatory bodies and external legal advisors, including working with the Executive Director of Governance & Regulation to co-ordinate any external investigation.

Inform, advise and issue recommendations to the organisation on internal compliance risks relating to data governance.

Maintaining a register of data processing operations and identify processing activities to demonstrate compliance with data protection laws and regulations.

Ensure all process changes and technology changes are secure by design, so receive, assess and make decisions regarding Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and provide relevant assistance and guidance to colleagues conducting them.

Be the main point of contact for and record, monitor and manage Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR) and Rights requests.

We’re looking for a comprehensive and demonstrable knowledge of the GDPR/UK Data Protection Act 2018 and extensive experience  with Microsoft Office 365 (including Teams, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)

You will need to be customer focused with good interpersonal skills, have the compassion to allow colleagues and stakeholders to approach you if and when data breaches occur.

We would especially welcome applications from candidates that possess a recognised qualification in data protection/privacy such as CIPP/E, CIPT, CIPM or EU GDPR Practitioner, experience in the Social Housing sector or held a Privacy/Data Protection role

Please download full Job Description, Knowledge, Skills and Experience required below.