Knowledge Information Management and Data Governance Lead

Forestry England is the body responsible for managing over 1500 sites that make up the Nation's Forests; the largest single landholding in the country with over 200 million visits a year.

The Corporate Affairs Division (CAD) functions are vital to ensuring Forestry England's operations are viewed as trusted, robust, transparent and compliant. Division functions include: CEO office, strategy, natural capital, policy, governance, risk, compliance, performance, insight and knowledge information. This role reports to the Corporate Director.

Information, knowledge and the culture surrounding it are transforming in our organisation. Can you bring passion, knowledge and tenacity to lead and deliver an excellent KIM service as a critical component to being a well-run, trusted, thriving organisation, fit for the future? KIM provides a key expertise in the critical role information plays in Forestry England and Forestry Commission. The function has a dual focus and leads on cross-Forestry Commission information strategy and policy as well as having lead operational responsibility for delivery in Forestry England for implementing information based management, rights and security.

Purpose:

The role of Information and Data Governance Lead provides a unique challenge and opportunity for an individual interested in driving and shaping the evolution of a knowledge and information service. This is an opportunity to work with a wide range of individuals and multi-disciplinary teams based in locations across England.

This role is for an experienced manager and information & data governance professional. You will provide expert leadership, strategic vision, advice and guidance to the organisation on data and information governance to ensure that the organisation is compliant, effective and efficient in its management of its information across the public, commercial and marketing areas in which the organisation operates. The post holder and KIM experts you lead will advise on the benefits, risks, requirements and opportunities of information management, governance and rights are understood, communicated and considered in system implementations and across the organisation. The role will work closely and collaboratively with the Forestry Commissioner's Office, Forestry England's Executive Team and across the districts to develop and embed a working strategy for managing information to be effective and compliant.

You have operational responsibility for information management and data protection compliance across Forestry England. You lead on the development of a data strategy and the governance around our data. You hold additional responsibility at Forestry Commission level for leading on policy in collaboration with KIM professionals across the FC.,

• KIM lead expert with practical knowledge and operational experience of managing information and information rights in a complex, dispersed, multi-disciplinary organisation


• Policy lead for information management across Forestry Commission working alongside the Forestry Commission Information Rights Lead


• Building and developing relationships with KIM professionals across the Forestry Commission and a range of stakeholders and key networks.


• Team management and development, this role is a key leadership role in the corporate team unit, including building the matrix management approach under the governance and risk theme.


• Contribute to the development of the Corporate Affairs annual business plan ensuring financial and staff resources are accounted for.


Expert

• Forestry Commission Departmental Records Officer and responsible for relationship with the National Archives on public records management. Compliance and meeting our legal obligations under information legislation including FOI, DP, PRA, EIR, Re-use of Public Sector Information regulations.


• Lead on information security providing advice and guidance, supporting incident investigations


• Lead the approach to information risk management, and be a member of the Forestry Commission Security Management Risk Forum.


• Lead the provision of advice to Forestry England's Chief Exec and Executive Team on their obligations under data protection legislation.


Deliver

• Strategic development and Operational delivery lead for Information Governance across Forestry England.


• Delivering key strategic information programmes, such as the Data Strategy through to successful co-ordination and completion across the Forestry Commission


• Develop strong partnership working with key teams such as IT colleagues and understand relationship of IT applications in relation to information governance e.g. SharePoint, MS Teams, One Drive


• Take a key role in the digital first approach in the organisation


• Play an active role in using knowledge management for effective succession planning and business continuity planning.


• Deliver SLA KIM services provided to Forestry Commission from Forestry England.


• Develop and maintain a national archive for the Forestry Commission.


• Developing training and awareness to improve the information governance and risk culture including data protection, privacy, information rights, information risk awareness and information request handling., A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years., A reserve list may be held for a period of 9 months from which further appointments can be made.


Any move to Forestry Commission from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

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New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Existing Civil Servants and applicants from accredited NDPBs are eligible to apply, but will only be considered on loan basis (Civil Servants) or secondment (accredited NDPBs). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.

Reasonable Adjustment

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.,
• UK nationals


• nationals of the Republic of Ireland


• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK


• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)


• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)


• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020


• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  Educated to degree level or have substantial experience in the field of knowledge and information management.


Practitioner certificate in FoI management or willingness to obtain it within 3 months of beginning role.

A deep experience knowledge and information management in a leadership role.

Knowledge of relevant UK legislation and public duty requirements for information management.

Experience of the development and successful delivery of strategies, policies and practice to drive and deliver change.

Experience of supporting the delivery of programmes of work in an environment of organisational transition and change.

Demonstrate a track record of developing successful working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Evidence of constantly updating knowledge and skills so they are current with awareness of current developments, emerging themes and requirements.

Willingness to travel in the UK and some overnight stays will be required.

Please clearly demonstrate how the above applies to you throughout your application. Failure to do so will mean that your application is automatically sifted out.

Desirable:

Experience and expertise in SharePoint.

Analysis of Information Risks.

Experience and expertise of cyber and information security skills.

Experience in delivering information management training solutions.

Programme/Project management and impact delivery.,
• Seeing the Big Picture


• Changing and Improving


• Communicating and Influencing


• Delivering at Pace


Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Demonstrate experience and excellent working in the leadership of knowledge and information management and data governance., This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills., A personal statement - in no more than 750 words please provide details of how you meet the Essential relevant experience and criteria as set out in the person specification. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form., Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Alongside your salary of £45,260, Forestry Commission contributes £12,220 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role


• An environment with flexible working options


• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity


• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%


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