Job Description:

Senior Information Rights Advisor

Department for Transport

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 16th August 2026

📍 Location: Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, Swansea (This role is suitable for hybrid working)

💷 Salary: £44,241 - A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

🏆️ Available Positions: 1

Protect information. Influence decisions. Build public trust. Play a leading role in data protection, information rights and transparency across the Department for Transport. In this influential position, you'll use your expertise to shape policy, manage risk, drive compliance and help ensure the highest standards of information governance across the organisation.

As a Senior Information Rights Advisor, you will play a key role in helping the Department for Transport manage information responsibly, transparently and in compliance with its legal obligations. Working within the Protect Service Line, you will provide expert advice on data protection, Freedom of Information (FOI) and wider information rights matters, helping to safeguard information and reduce organisational risk. 

Top Responsibilities

• Supporting the Data Protection Officer in carrying out their statutory tasks by providing expert, timely, risk-based advice to business areas and risk owners on DPIAs, privacy notices, data sharing, data processing contracts, overseas transfers and all other aspects of data protection compliance.
• Being an enthusiastic advocate for data protection by design and default and proactively engaging with project teams to ensure that data protection requirements are factored into the design of new solutions at the earliest stages.
• Managing the timely maintenance of departmental records to ensure compliance with our accountability obligations.
• Risk-assessing, recording and escalating data breaches, advising the business on steps to con

For more information on the role and responsibilities please see the full job advert on CS Jobs using the link provided.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here 

• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).  

• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.   

• Access to the staff discount portal. 

• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc. 

• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues. 

• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff. 

• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance. 

About You

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience: 

• Expert knowledge and practical experience of data protection law and practices.
• Experience of identifying, assessing and mitigating compliance risks
• Independently leading a small team to deliver at pace.
• Excellent communicator to a range of stakeholders at all levels of seniority with an eye for detail who can support their teams to handle and advise on complex issues.
• Well-organised and great at prioritising multiple demands on their time.

Essential qualifications/certifications

• You will have successfully obtained an industry-recognised Data Protection Practitioners Certificate
• You will have or be prepared to undertake a Freedom of Information practitioner certificate qualification. 

You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications/certifications at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

How to Apply

👉 Read the full description and apply at CS Jobs using the link provided.

This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 16th August 2026