Data Protection Adviser 11 views

464591 Data Protection Adviser

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 21st June 2026

📍 Location: Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Birmingham or Yeading (Hayes) (This role is suitable for hybrid working)

💷 Salary: £35,663 (Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000)
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

In this role, you will advise DVSA on compliance with privacy legislation, in particular the Data Protection Act 2018, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data privacy legislation and to ensure that relevant policy and procedure is in place and implemented to enable compliance. This includes internally within DVSA and externally, for example within our supply chain or other organisation through data protection clauses within contracts and data sharing agreements.

In this role, you’ll advise DVSA colleagues, the supply chain and other organisations on processing personal data and sensitive personal data to ensure that it is done so in line with data protection and data privacy law. This will involve considering risks to individuals’ data and what measures can be put in place to reduce these risks.

Top Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to information asset owners on carrying out data protection impact assessments, approving the data protection compliance check and making risk based recommendations.
• Provide assistance to information asset owners on the creation of privacy notices and data sharing agreements to ensure compliance with legislation.
• Respond to rights requests and Freedom of Information internal reviews.
• Manage any data protection incidents – assessing impact to individuals and notifying relevant parties.
• Provide data protection advice and guidance to all parts of DVSA, external organisations and the supply chain.
• Support Commercial colleagues and Contract Managers in ensuring data protection clauses are embedded within contracts.
• Provide training and guidance on data protection law to DVSA colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Manage data protection compliance throughout DVSA by carrying out assessments against the Information Commissioner’s Accountability Framework.
• Work with Traffic Commissioners and others to ensure data protection compliance taking into account data controller and data processor relationship.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic 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.

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

About You

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

• High quality communication and drafting skills

• Able to negotiate with senior staff and external organisations, such as other government departments, supply chain and private sector

• Understanding of data protection legislation and how to interpret it
• Experience of working in a data protection environment with application of data protection law and considerable experience of supporting DPIAs and providing advice and guidance on data sharing or data processing within the supply chain.

How to Apply

👉 Read the full description and apply here: https://bit.ly/4ouQeWr

This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 21^st June 2026