Overview
Salary: £14.36 per hour
Shift hours: Casual
The Council has a small team of officers who play an important part in helping the Council meet its statutory responsibilities for information rights, responding to Subject Access Requests (SARs) from people for the personal data that the Council holds about them. Meeting this fundamental right and helping ensure openness and transparency is both rewarding and challenging.
This role is part will help us form a small casual pool of officers to support the team during busy periods, with hours and timescales for each SAR to be agreed on a case-by-case basis according to service need and your availability.
You will ensure appropriate information is prepared for disclosure, applying redactions and exemptions in line with the Data Protection Act 2018 and liaising with customers and services to manage complex requests appropriately and within legal timescales.
You will have experience and a good understanding of data protection and information law and be able to work to a high level of confidentiality and information security. You will have the ability to redact complex and extremely sensitive information, dealing with information that can be of a distressing nature. You will have a minimum of one year’s experience in redaction using appropriate software tools and extensive experience dealing with the full lifecycle of SAR requests.
You will work closely with other team members and organise your own workload to meet agreed timescales.
If you want to discuss this role, please contact Preeti Mistry on 024 7697 1736 or Rebecca Newstead on 024 7697 5408.
If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme – As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interview date: 5 June 2025
Reference: coventrycc/TP/27762/11007
