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Job Specifications

Southern Housing is hiring a Privacy Officer to join our Data Protection Team. In this role you will help Southern Housing meet its regulatory obligations for the management, use and protection of personal data. Reporting to the Head of Data Protection, you will deliver timely administrative and advisory support across data protection activities, ensuring compliance documentation is kept up to date and Individual Rights Requests are managed in line with policy.

What You’ll

Provide day-to-day administrative support for Subject Access Requests, Right to Erasure requests and other individual rights, including redaction of third‑party data and validation of disclosure files.
Maintain the Data Protection Team’s systems, records and files, ensuring accuracy, security and auditability.
Administer the data breach register (OneTrust), support investigations and help provide breach guidance to business teams.
Support data protection communications with assistance from the Communications Team and provide administrative support to the Data Protection Champions Group.
Assist with colleague inductions and training; prepare presentation and training materials on data protection topics.
Maintain a register of DP enquiries, produce analysis of recurring issues and manage the data protection intranet site in coordination with the Head of DP and Data Protection Manager.
Help review third‑party risk assessments via OneTrust, support suppliers with compliance queries and assist the Privacy Analyst with Data Protection Impact Assessments.
Support data minimisation and other DP projects; arrange meetings, manage the team inbox and Customer Dynamics tasks, and handle general administrative duties.

Based in our Sittingbourne office, this role offers hybrid working arrangements of 2 days per week in the office and 3 days – work from home. Some occasional travel to our main offices may be required from time to time.

What You’ll Need

Excellent data protection knowledge
Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across other teams to raise awareness and instil a culture of data protection compliance
Experience in providing data protection advice to key stakeholders
Experience in investigating data protection breaches
Ability to work under pressure and to tight legislative deadlines
Ability to work independently and manage own workload

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above six criteria providing real examples.

Closing Date: 25th of November (Tuesday) at 23:59

Shortlisting Date: from 26th of November 2025

Interview Date: week commencing 1st of December 2025

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to submit your application and supporting statement as soon as possible so your application can be reviewed and considered.

About the Company

We’re one of the largest housing providers in the UK with around 80,000 homes across London, the South East, the Isle of Wight and the Midlands, giving over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own. Whether it's traditional social housing, shared ownership, affordable rent, private market rent, student accommodation, care and support or outright sales, we offer a range of services. Built on over 100 years of history, our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they’re prou... Know more