Job Description:

Principal Information Governance Officer (Transport)
£47,025 per annum - Grade 8
Leeds / Hybrid
Full time - 37 hours per week

Permanent

Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part-time working and/or job share.

We currently have a vacancy for a Principal Information Governance Officer (Transport) to join our Information Governance team.

As our Principal Information Governance Officer (Transport), you will play a vital role in providing specialist information governance support for major transport projects across the Combined Authority’s Transport programmes, projects and functions, ensuring the Combined Authority meets its legal obligations under the Data Protection Act 2018, UK GDPR, Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

You will be working closely with colleagues in Transport to provide a customer focussed, high performing and proactive information governance service, providing expert advice to officers on information management, exemptions/exceptions under FOI/EIR understanding and applying the public interest test and providing expert advice on data protection law.

Our team operates in a fast-paced environment with a focus on compliance and delivery.

This post is subject to vetting clearance.

Due to the nature of this role, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will be subject to relevant vetting checks at the appropriate level and any job offer will be conditional subject to successful vetting clearance. Applicants should be aware that it is not possible to make meaningful vetting enquiries in many jurisdictions outside the UK. Vetting clearance cannot therefore be granted if the applicant has not been resident in the UK for the relevant minimum period and comparable vetting enquiries cannot be made in jurisdictions where the individual has been residing.
The relevant periods are three years for NPPV 1&2 and five years for NPPV3. Further guidance can be found here.

Our Offer
 

• Work your way – From flexible and agile working options, including a generous flexi-time scheme to help you balance your personal life and career.
• Time to recharge – Enjoy 28 days of annual leave (with increases based on length of service), plus all Bank Holidays.
• Free greener travel across West Yorkshire – Cover your commute sustainably with unlimited free bus and rail travel using the MCard (Zones 1–5).
• Secure your future – Benefit from a highly competitive Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Investing in you – Take advantage of supported professional development, regular training, and up to 3 paid volunteering days per year.
• Grow with us – Incremental salary progression for most roles and annual cost of living increases.
• Family first – We offer enhanced parental and bereavement leave, plus other family-friendly policies to support you when it matters most.
• Your wellbeing, our priority – Access 24/7 free confidential counselling services and the Headspace app for you and up to 5 family or friends.

• Modern workspace in a prime location – Work in bright, contemporary offices just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station, fully equipped with the latest tech.
• Take the lead and provide expertise on specialist areas of information governance compliance including data sharing to deliver against major transport programmes
• Support the strategic development of the Information Governance function and lead on the development and maintenance of appropriate policies, procedures and systems to support each aspect of information governance and work in partnership with the Combined Authority’s Officers, external stakeholders and partner authorities to ensure compliance
• Provide expert advice to Combined Authority officers on complex FOI, EIR and DPA information requests to ensure maximum transparency is achieved, making judgments where necessary

Please review the Role Profile for more information about the responsibilities.

About You

You will have the following key skills, attributes, education, and experience:

• Knowledge of data protection, freedom of information and transparency, records management matters and related legislation
• Experience of effectively contributing to department objectives.
• Practical experience of successfully performing in a similar role
• An understanding of information governance in the delivery of projects and large-scale programmes
• Strong communication skills with the proven ability to influence, negotiate and challenge.

To Apply

If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form on our website and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form.
 

Further Information

The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met.

Please note that whilst it is our policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments, which is the salary stated above, each role includes career salary progression, with incremental increases applicable in most cases on an annual basis.