Total 3 information technology job vacancies in chelmsford cm1 7lf

Information Governance Officer

Fixed Term, Full Time

£27,498 to £32,351 Per Annum

Location: Chelmsford

Closing Date: Sunday 27th October 2024 at 11.59pm

Please note that this position is being offered as a Fixed Term Contract / Secondment for a period of 12 months.

Interview date: Monday 11th November 2024

This position has been classed as anywhere worker but has an expectation that the successful candidate will attend the office, in Chelmsford, around 1 day per month, with the remaining time allowing for remote working if desired.

The Opportunity

The role of Information Governance and Transparency is to deliver effective and high- quality information governance, data protection and sharing, records management and information rights advice, to manage and report on data breaches, undertake impact assessments, respond to complaints, and handle access to information requests.

The Information Governance Officer operates at the core of the council and requires tact, they also need to have good interpersonal skills. The role is integral to the successful delivery of services to our traded information governance service, ensuring our customers remain compliant under the relevant legislation.

The role will be required to provide legislative guidance and advice to customers, including schools and other public bodies, partners, and other stakeholders. Therefore, the ability to be diplomatic and understand the context of the situation is crucial to the success of this role.

Accountabilities

• Responsible for providing Information Governance advice and guidance to officers, customers, partners and others on the current data protection and information legislation.
• Carries out compliance audits for customers, providing audit recommendations and action plan.
• Ensures all information rights requests are dealt with in an efficient and timely manner within legislative timescales, which may include reading, redacting, and preparing responses.
• Maintains and updates the CRM with business activities.
• Supports and advises on the investigation of data breaches, preparing reports and issuing guidance, as necessary.
• Supports the creation, development, and maintenance of an Information Governance framework for customers to ensure compliance with all regulations and legislation including, the UK General Data Protection Regulation 2016, Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), the Freedom of Information Act 2000, The Computer Misuse Act 1990, Environmental Information Regulations 2004, and the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005.
• Responsible for investigating and responding to complaints, including those to the DPO, from the ICO and FOI internal reviews.
• Responsible for promotion of data protection awareness through preparation and delivery of communications and training to customers.
• Contribute to project activities to support timely delivery.

The Experience You Will Bring

Essential:

• Responsible for providing Information Governance advice and guidance to officers, schools, partners and others on the current data protection and information legislation
• Ensures all information rights requests are dealt with in an efficient and timely manner within legislative timescales, this includes reading, redacting, and preparing responses.
• Maintains and updates the reporting dashboards and reports including preparing commentary to support the information.
• Undertakes the investigation of security incidents, preparing reports and issuing guidance as necessary.

Desirable:

• Makes updates to existing policies and assists in the drafting of new or revised policies and guidance.
• Supports the creation, development, and maintenance of an Information Governance framework for the Council to ensure compliance with all regulations and legislation including, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016, Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), the Freedom of Information Act 2000, The Computer Misuse Act 1990, Environmental Information Regulations 2004, and the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005.
• Responsible for investigating and responding to complaints, including those to the DPO, from the ICO and FOI reviews.
• Responsible for promotion of data protection awareness through preparation and delivery of communications and training and ensuring intranet and internet pages are updated and maintained in line with policies and guidance.

The Opportunity

We're on the lookout for a dynamic L&D technologist to join our team! If you're passionate about learning and technology, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is your chance to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Essex's County Council's Learning Management System (LMS).

You'll be the driving force behind our learning festival and various learning campaigns, utilising tools like MS Office Stream, Insights, Sway, Forms, and Clipchamp. Your enthusiasm for tech will be key as you explore innovative solutions with Power Automation, AI, and HTML.

While experience with an LMS is a plus, we provide comprehensive training on our platform to ensure you're up to speed. Your role is crucial in managing learner expectations, requiring excellent communication skills, resilience, and empathy.

As you can imagine no two days are the same and will includes tasks such as leading collaborations and revitalising virtual sessions, tracking training trends to stay ahead of the learning curve and enhancing our platform and enriching our skills repository.

Attention to detail is a must, as is the readiness to tackle repetitive tasks with the end goal of crafting perfect solutions. You'll need to grasp the complexities of the public sector, but don't worry, our onboarding process is designed to help you understand the diverse needs of our learners, from the recycling team to lawyers and social workers.

Join us and be a part of a team that values innovation, learning, and making a real impact!

Accountabilities

• Support updating virtual sessions building effective working relationships with other L&D practitioners and chase for none updated rosters which affects user records.
• Support interest tracking requests to ascertain future training needs for learners.
• Weekly check of events and sessions running to ensure links etc are there for learners.
• Upload content as and when needed and set quarterly reviews to ensure content still be utilise, check evaluation and check working as it should e.g., launch.
• Update recordings to L&D 'branding' so learners clearly see which learning capabilities they are aligned too. (Like thumbnailing we do now on My Learning)
• Support learning technology Consultant with quarterly platform releases.
• Maintain and support professional skills catalogue - make live, remove expired content.
• Highlight problems on My Learning to escalate.
• Checklist / review accessibility on My Learning content.
• Problems solving with My Learning Wizards and offer support.
• Utilise new cornerstone tool such as VR, Content Studio.
• Support in reviewing evaluations for programmes.
• BAU customer services- e.g., Corp Gov!! completion queries, finding a specific course etc.

Comms and Marketing:

• Market our offer with guidance from LT Consultant and working with comms and design team.
• Post updates to learners on Yammer, Teams etc

Projects:

• MS Stream videos - all learning and performance videos now broken due to Stream migrating.
• Support us in building new L&D Teams area so all files etc in one place for new structure!
• Learning 'cataloguing' - Streamline topics into new categories / capabilities.
• Support deactivation of old content so most up to dates and used content is available.
• Support Learning Technology Consultant in building new pages and removal of 'Hubs' to produce more affective user journey for learners ready for LearnFest.
• Help with LearnFest/Learning campaigns.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Efficient or can learn quickly in MS Office tools including - Stream, insights, sway, forms, Clipchamp, utilising content creating tools at ECC.
• Excited about learning technology, not afraid to try new ways of doing things e.g., Power automation, AI, HTML.
• Experience of working on an LMS would be great - but training on cornerstone offered.
• This role is more than likely receive some learner frustrations, so good communication s kills, resilience, empathy is needed. Don't tend to hear when it's made impact, so would advocate role to help with stalls and meeting the teams more especially to grow network when working in a hybrid set up!
• Eye for detail and ready to work on a given task repeatedly, to produce a solution. Some tasks will be repetitive but worth it in the end!
• ability to understand organisation's requirement, public sector is complex but good onboarding will be needed so they understand the different hats we wear to support different learners e.g., from recycle team, to lawyers to social workers.

To read more about us please visit: People and Transformation

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

What you should do next

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website.

Please note that Essex County Council has determined that the off-payroll working rules will apply to this assignment and where a worker elects to provide their services through an intermediary (such as a personal services company) then income tax and primary national insurance contributions will be deducted at source from any payments made to the intermediary.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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Teacher of Design and Technology

Contract: full time/permanent

Start: January 2025

Salary: MPS/UPS

Applications are invited for the post of design and technology teacher at the William de Ferrers School. This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly successful and experienced faculty in a warm and supportive school which values the contributions and ideas of all stakeholders and strives for high achievement for all its pupils.

Why work for William de Ferrers School?

• We have a senior leadership team that encourage innovation from heads of departments and that offers unwavering support and guidance We have a highly supportive and willing team of established teachers
• We have students who appreciate the support and investment of teachers
• All colleagues have access to individualised CPD that not only supports them in their current role but allows them access to training for their career development.
• We follow national Teacher Pay Scales as well as the Teachers Pension Scheme
• All colleagues have access to a 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• All colleagues have access to a benefits platform which offers valuable discountsWe have a dedicated administrative support team
• We provide excellent networking opportunities with other schools
• Ofsted rated William de Ferrers a ‘Good School’ in December 2018.
• We are committed to giving the highest standards of education for the young people in our care.
• We encourage all staff to contribute their ideas to improve the school on it’s journey to outstanding.

Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please contact Mrs Clarkson, PA to the headteacher on 01245 326305 or headspa@wdf.school who will be happy to arrange a visit for you.

Deadline for applications midday 30th June 2024

As an equal opportunities employer, The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join The Chelmsford Learning Partnership.

In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on an application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and satisfactory references. In line with recommended practice the school will conduct searches for information on shortlisted candidates which is publicly available on-line. The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.



What the school offers its staff



The Chelmsford Learning Partnership is committed within its schools to:

• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety, and the spiritual and cultural development of children and young people;
• Promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued;
• The fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs

and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.



Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.