Data Protection Manager
Are you a data protection specialist looking for your next role? Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity are hiring for a Data Protection Manager to own our day to day data protection activities.
The salary for this position is £52,227 per annum. We operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.
The salary for this position is £52,227 per annum. We operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.
In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.
Key Responsibilities
This is an operational role where you will manage day to day data protection activities including:
- Acting as first point of contact for all data protection queries.
- Undertaking data impact assessments (DPIAs) across all areas but primarily fundraising.
- Managing legitimate interest balance test and associated risks.
- Providing advice and guidance to stakeholders on all data protection and privacy related matters.
- Assisting with any data breaches.
- Maintaining effective governance across GOSH Charity.
- Managing the data register.
- Reviewing data protection clauses in contracts.
This is the ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys managing day to day data protection activities and educating stakeholders on the importance of data.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Extensive data protection and privacy experience.
- Extensive knowledge of UK and EU Data Protection and Information Security principles, as well as best practice.
- Experience undertaking data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), legitimate interest balance tests and reviewing privacy contractual clauses.
- Experience providing pragmatic advice to stakeholders on data protection issues.
- Solutions focused mindset.
- Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to communicate complex data protection information to different audiences.
- High accuracy and attention to detail.
Experience in the charity sector or an understanding of fundraising is highly beneficial for this role.
Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.
Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.
Closing Date:31st December 2025
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Benefits
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A flexible approach to working arrangements.
- Access to our enhanced pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.
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About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.
Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission.
Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status.
If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here
https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org
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