This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working, and requires travel to offices as needed.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Data Protection Manager

As our Data Protection Manager (known internally as Lead Data Protection Manager), you’ll play a crucial role across the Company in safeguarding CityFibre’s privacy and ensuring adherence to the data protection framework. By leading implementation of policies, procedures and protocols, this role will ensure that data protection laws and regulations are met.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Develop and Implement Data Protection Policies: Design and enforce data protection policies and procedure to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act (2018).
• Compliance Monitoring: Ensure data processing activities comply with the Data Protection Act (2018) and other regulations.
• Data Breach Response: Manage the data incident and breach process including investigation, remediation, and reporting.
• Training and Awareness: Conduct bespoke training sessions to the business on data protection and privacy best practices.
• Risk Assessments: In tandem with our Legal department, sign off DPIAs and privacy risk assessments for new projects, processes and systems and prepare residual risk summaries.

What you’ll bring to the role

You will have a proven track record in partnering with businesses to upskill staff to uphold privacy standards, shaping and managing our data protection policies and conducting regular risk assessments to keep our data security robust. You should bring expertise in the following key areas:

• Strong knowledge of data protection legislation and implementing a data protection strategy.
• Proven experience of developing and implementing data protection policies and procedures in the UK.
• Experience of managing and overseeing subject access requests and right to erasure requests Data Protection Act (2018).
• Proven experience of the Microsoft Purview suite of applications, including but not limited to eDiscovery, Data Lifecycle Management, Information Protection and Data loss Prevention.
• Experience conducting privacy reviews, control assessments and privacy impact assessments.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!