Information Governance Officer

Description

• Contribute to the development of organisational strategies that address the evolving business risk and information control requirements.
• Develop information assurance policy, standards and guidelines.
• Define, implement, and monitor a governance framework to guide the use of data across HS2.
• Develop HS2’s IT information governance & assurance approach, focusing on treating data as an asset and maintaining wider organisational compliance.
• Identify typical data risk indicators and plan for prevention measures, leveraging HS2’s available data.
• Provide advice and guidance to ensure adoption of and adherence to information assurance architectures, strategies, policies, standards and guidelines
• Recognise decisions that are beyond their scope and responsibility level and escalate those decisions accordingly.
• Assure continuation of standard approach for the technical assessment of HS2 information systems against information assurance polices and business objectives.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Requirements

• Knowledge of digital information technology, trends, and the opportunities they present.
• Knowledge of various information assurance polices and standards, with a focus on industry trends.
• Information assurance. Ability to review and perform risk assessment and treatment plans against managing risks related to the use, storage and transmission of data and information systems.
• Experience in setting and complying with information policy directives.
• Experience in translating business requirements into engineered solutions aligned with architectural standards, in particular analytics solutions.
• Governance. Ability to define and operate a framework for making decisions, managing stakeholder relationships, and identifying legitimate authority for IT.
• Knowledge of data storage tools in used in HS2 projects.
• Experience managing data as an asset inside a major organisation with similar compliance and risk management constraints.
• Data management. Ability to develop, implement and asses the integrity of plans, policies, and practices that control, protect and optimise the value of data assets. Can also provide advice on the transformation of data from one format to another.
• Information management. Ability to plan, implement and control the full life cycle management of digitally organised information and records.
• Information security. Ability to define, operate and maintain a framework of security controls. Can also identify and communicate security risks that arise from technical solution architectures.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance