Grade L £52,805 - £57,175 Per annum.

Contract: Permanent, Full-time.

Role specifics Candidates must hold a relevant postgraduate qualification

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The Role

As Head of Information Governance, you will lead a dedicated team and drive Bolton Council’s strategic approach to data protection, transparency, and information governance, as well as act as the Data Protection Officer for Bolton and Salford Cares. You’ll oversee key projects, shape policy, and ensure compliance with legislation while advising senior leaders and representing the Council on high-level IG matters. This is a pivotal role where your leadership will directly influence how information is managed, shared, and protected across the organisation.

About You

You’re an experienced professional with strong leadership skills, a relevant postgraduate qualification, and a deep understanding of data protection and information rights. You’re confident influencing at a senior level and passionate about using data to improve public services. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable knowledge and experience of both legislative requirements and best practice standards in relation to information assurance, information rights, records management, data standards and open data. You will be able to apply that knowledge to deliver information assurance and governance in a complex organisation with a wide ranging and varied data landscape. Alongside experience of generating performance reporting and open data strategies, you will have experience of leading, developing and motivating a team with strong communication and team work skills.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the comitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

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