Job Description
Information Assurance Team Manager
Location: Darby House, Darby Close, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 6GSContract: 6 month contract with likely extensionHours: 37 hours per week (Monday-Friday) 9am-5pmPay Rate: £24.50 PAYE hour
About the Role:
This role exists because the Information Assurance function needs modernising, tightening, and reasserting authority across the organisation.
You are not here to “maintain compliance.” You are here to lead assurance, drive change, and ensure senior leaders can confidently discharge their duties as Data Controllers under UK data protection and information security law.
Key Responsibilities:
* You will operate at both strategic and operational level.
* Act as a senior advisor (alongside the statutory Data Protection Officer) to the Chief Constable and Chief Fire Officer, providing clear, defensible advice on compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, UK GDPR, and associated legislation.
* Influence senior leaders, managers, and operational teams to ensure policing, fire, and corporate activity complies with data protection and information security requirements.
* Lead and deliver change management within the Information Assurance function, implementing improvements arising from internal and external reviews.
* Support the Head of Information Assurance across all core assurance areas, including:
o Information access and disclosure
o Compliance and audit
o Information security
o Freedom of Information
o Subject Access Requests
o Records Management
o Information Sharing Agreements
o Management of Police Information (MoPI)
* Overhaul and relaunch the organisation’s data protection and information security training and awareness programme — this is a major deliverable, not a side task.
* Embed new ways of working to improve efficiency, consistency, and professional credibility of the function.
* Design and implement a revised performance framework, introducing meaningful metrics and accountability.
* Deputise for the Head of Information Assurance and Data Protection Officer when required.
Essential skills and experience:
* Minimum 5 years’ experience in Data Protection / Information Assurance, including public sector environments.
* Proven ability to design and implement policies, processes, and performance frameworks.
* Demonstrable experience of driving organisational change, not just recommending it.
* Ongoing continuous professional development aligned to modern data protection and information security practice.
* Strong communication skills with the authority to advise from frontline to Chief Officer level.
* The confidence to challenge poor practice — diplomatically, but firmly.
Apply Now Service Care Solutions is proud to assist in this recruitment campaign. If you meet the above criteria and would like to be considered, please apply now or reach out directly to discuss the role in more detail. Harry Greenhalgh Recruitment Lead – Police | Youth Justice | Domestic Abuse Service Care Solutionsharry.greenhalgh@servicecare.org.uk 01772 208962