About the job

Job summary

The Serious Fraud Office fights complex financial crime, delivers justice for victims and protects the UK’s reputation as a safe place to do business. We take on the crimes that others cannot tackle, often involving huge sums of money, multiple victims, and significant impacts for the UK economy and global reputation.

Data is at the heart of that mission. The companies and individuals we investigate are increasingly digitised, and so we collect and process large volumes of data in diverse formats throughout the lifecycle of a case. Given the nature of our casework that will include sensitive personal data relating to victims of crime, as well as witnesses, whistle-blowers, members of the public, suspects and law enforcement colleagues. As a data controller we must process all personal data responsibly and in line with relevant legislation, including changes to the data protection landscape implemented through the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

The Data Protection Manager role will lead on the SFO’s compliance with UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. You will be responsible for managing the SFO’s privacy management programme and developing the roles, policies and processes that ensure the SFO can protect, manage and exploit personal data lawfully. You will work with colleagues in IT, Security, Governance, Project Delivery, and operational teams to create approaches that embed privacy by design, specifically as part of the adoption of new technologies. You will proactively lead on engagement and refine the process for conducting data protection impact assessments, and manage the team responsible for providing quality advice, guidance and training to SFO staff on data protection and information management. As the Data Protection Manager, you will also create a process for assessing the SFO’s maturity in data protection and provide assurance to senior management on compliance.

Job description

As a Data Protection Manager you will be responsible for:

• Deputising for the SFO’s Data Protection Officer where required
• Maintaining an up to date knowledge of data protection legislation
• Analysing complex problems in a multi stakeholder environment and making effective decisions under pressure.
• Communicating complex technical matters to stakeholders in a meaningful and understandable way relevant to the audience.
• Proactively engaging with the wider business to identify and manage data protection risks, by centrally managing completion of DPIAs and other relevant documentation, as well as undertaking assurance of compliance in line with the ICO’s Accountability Framework and delivering improvement work where gaps are identified.

For more information about the role and for a full list of key responsibilities, please see attached Job Pack.

Person specification

See above and attached Job Pack.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,998, Serious Fraud Office contributes £15,659 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Application stage

As part of the application process you will be required to provide:

• A 250 word example of how you meet the technical criteria as listed on the job pack for the role at the required level.

The technical criteria is a lead criteria; this will be assessed first and candidates who do not meet the required standard will not have the remainder of their application considered.

• A personal statement of no more than 750 words that explains how your skills and experience meet each of the essential and desirable experience criteria as listed in the job pack.

Please note, desirable experience will only be taken into account if there is a large volume of applications and there is a need for further shortlisting for interview.

It will not be possible to provide feedback to applicants who are unsuccessful at the application stage.

Interview stage

Behaviours and experience criteria as outlined in the job pack will be tested at interview. 

Full details of the interview process will be made available to shortlisted candidates in the invite to interview.

Sift to take place from 31 May 2024.

Interviews are expected to take place w/c 17 June 2024.

All dates are indicative and subject to change.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.