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Job Introduction

The BBC aims to stimulate and delight audiences across the UK with distinctive, creative content. To support this aim, the BBC is entering a new period of significant and exciting change, developing new capabilities in order to define a BBC that is fit for the next generation by creating technology solutions and organising data to shape a personal BBC for each of our users.

The Data Protection Office acts as a technical resource to the BBC, providing advice and operational assistance with the practical implementation of complying with relevant data protection legislation, regulation and guidance.

As a Senior Data Privacy Advisor reporting to the Data Protection Officer, you will work as part of the Data Protection Office to ensure that the BBC processes and handles personal data lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner, while facilitating the development and maintenance of products and services to transform business capabilities and enable the next generation of Broadcast and Digital services.

Main Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Privacy Advisor you will:

• 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
• Advise and lead on the drafting of privacy notices
• Support the Operational Privacy Manager to maintain the BBC’s Records of Processing Activities
• Collaborate with other teams across the BBC on projects and initiatives
• Work with other teams and divisions in the broader organisation to define, document and distribute privacy by design best practice and standards
• Enhance the Data Protection Office’s Privacy Resource database
• Drive a positive privacy awareness culture throughout the BBC

Are you the right candidate?

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Experience of working in a data protection compliance role that involves the practical delivery of privacy and assessment of risk into product or service design
• Good 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
• Experience assessing and drafting complex risk assessments
• Experience of drafting privacy notices/policies
• Experience of working pro-actively collaboratively and business partnering across a diverse range of mid-senior level stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable but not essential

• Qualified lawyer, law degree or relevant industry qualification (CIPM or equivalent certification showing familiarity with principles of Privacy Programme Management or Practitioner certificate in Data Privacy/Protection or equivalent)
• Broadcast, production, start-up or media experience
• A mix of public sector and commercial experience

If you have some but not all of these skills, we’d still be interested in hearing from you. We are looking for people with the right attitude and offer excellent training.

Package Description

Band:               D

Contract type:  Fixed term contract (c.6 months - running from 1 November 2024 to 13 June 2025)

Location:          London office base.  This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working

Salary:              anticipated range £50,000 - £60,000pa, depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.  For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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