Data Acquisition and Quality Lead - #149050

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Salary: £55,403 - £61,939

Working pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Business area: CO - Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA)

Location: Glasgow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Job summary

The Infected Blood Compensation Authority has recently been established to pay compensation to those who have been infected and affected by the infected blood scandal. The IBCA Data Governance team sits within the wider Data Directorate, and is currently staffed by leads for Data Protection, Knowledge and Information Management, and Information Rights and Disclosure.

A vacancy has opened for a Data Acquisition and Quality Lead to lead on engagement with stakeholders who hold the data which IBCA requires in order to deliver its services, and to ensure that the quality of this is optimised and maintained so as to extract maximum accuracy and value.

IBCA has been granted statutory powers to enable it to acquire data to support the administration of the infected blood compensation scheme. This role will focus on the use of those powers to ensure they are exercised in an effective and compliant way.

This vacancy is for a G7 workstream lead, which will work within the Data Governance team, alongside three other G7 members of staff who manage the other Data Governance functions.

The post holder will collaborate with those colleagues in order to ensure that data is acquired in a way which is compliant with data protection legislation and is stored in appropriately secure environments. The post holder will also work with Operational and Policy colleagues to determine the nature of the data required, and that this is fit for purpose to support IBCA’s service delivery.

Job description

The successful candidate will lead on providing data product management skills focused on:

• Building a data acquisition strategy, taking into account immediate needs for data, as well as longer term systemic data acquisition approaches
• Identifying data for acquisition
• Interpreting available data assets to ensure data meets IBCA’s needs
• Identifying optimal stakeholders who hold data which IBCA requires
• Engaging and working with stakeholders to negotiate access to the data they hold
• Drafting and maintaining agreements, such as MoUs, DSAs, data processing contracts and deeds, ensuring these align with relevant legislation
• Designing specific policy approaches for acquisition of key datasets by IBCA
• Manage data quality standards, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and validity

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• You should have experience of working in an organisation which handles and exchanges sensitive personal information. You should be highly skilled at working with data protection legislation, and applying this in practice. You should have an understanding of data protection standards across government and experience of creating, implementing and embedding policies within an organisation, with a clear vision for best practice.
• You should be capable of managing multiple work items of competing priority, determining appropriate levels of urgency.
• You should have excellent drafting and written communication skills to support the drafting of high quality and compliant agreements, as well as robust advice. You should be able to articulate your decisions clearly, showing a clear and coherent supporting rationale. You should be able to think strategically and consider a range of options, and recommend the best course so as to manage delivery and organisational impact.
• You should have the ability to network effectively within both a team and department, to delegate tasks, retrieve information and explain processes.
• You should have strong analytical skills to enable you to reach sound decisions.
• You should have experience with working within a legal framework, and interpreting applicable guidance to inform your approach.
• You should be comfortable communicating with a range of audiences, to provide assurance to senior leaders as well as to provide guidance to operational staff and set out IBCA’s position to external stakeholders. You should be able to consider the training needs of the organisation, and support with the design and delivery of appropriate materials accordingly.
• You should be able to anticipate, assess and capture relevant risks, and design mitigations accordingly. You should be able to prioritise effectively while considering the big picture.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working with healthcare data is desirable.

Additional information:

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £55,403, Cabinet Office contributes £16,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

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

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