Data Governance Lead

Permanent Full Time

35 Hours per week

Are you passionate about data and able to communicate its importance to diverse audiences

Join us in a pivotal role during an exciting merger! As our DataGovernance Leadyoullensure compliance with data protection regulations lead investigations into data breaches and manage information requests. Working closely with the Data Protection Officer and Governance Teamyoullalso drive improvements in data governance policies and processes building transparency trust and shaping best practice across the organisation.

Estuary Housing Association is aregulatedhousing provider managing more than 4600 homes across Essex outer East London and Suffolk Coastal.

In March 2025 Estuarys Board agreed to explore a potential merger with CHP another Essex based housing association. The intention is to create a stronger more resilient organisation with shared values and goals greater capacity to improve services andmaintainhomes and a stronger ability to serve the people of Essex now and in the future.

In December 2025 the Boards of both organisations agreed toproceedwith the merger. From 1 April 2026 CHP and Estuary will formally come together as Delta Housing.

We offer a hybrid approach with homeworking as standard and office visits to flexibility and open to accommodating individual needs.

With the support of this team the main duties for the role are:

• To support the Data Protection Officer in their activities related to data protection compliance and management including responding to general queries quickly and accurately bymonitoringcorporate email inboxes and responding or escalating asappropriate.

• Tolead ondata breach investigations.

• Develop andmaintaincollaborative and productive relationships with all staff including senior management.

• To haveprimary responsibility for responding to access to information requests under the UK GDPR and Social Tenant Access to Information Requirements (STAIRs).

• Tolead on the collating and serving of documentsdataand information in response to information requests including but not limited to: -

• Subject Access Requests.
• STAIRs Requests.

• Other requests for information under regulatory obligations.

• Toensure data integrity accuracy and timeliness in line with UK GDPR and other data governance legislation in all elements of your work.

We are looking for someone whohas:

• Good general education (A-level or equivalent) with excellent literacy and numeracyskills.

• A strong working knowledge of current Data Protection principles and general understanding of the legislative framework.

• Demonstrable ability to build relationships influencestakeholdersand collaborateeffectivelywith colleaguesandexternal partners.

• Excellent organisational and project/time management skillswith the ability to manage a busy workload with competing deadlines whilemaintainingmeticulous attention to detail.

• Strong creative problem-solving skills and able to work well under pressure.

• Excellent numerical and analytical skills with the ability to analyse data and translate into reports and presentations.

• A high levelofproficiencyusing Microsoft Office applications.

• Substantial experiencemanaging data and information requests under a legislative framework.

• Previouswork experience and ability todemonstratea good understanding of data governance and data protection.

• Experience of working in the non-profit charitable or another regulated sector.

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it isdeemedthat we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we wouldadvisethat applications aresubmittedas soon as possible.

Closing date: 28thJanuary 2026

1st Stage Interview: TEAMS to be confirmed

2nd Stage Interview: Onsite to be confirmed

INDMED

Estuary is a Housing Association with a strong and clear regional commitment within Essex. Wework very successfully within every district in Essex the three outer East London Boroughs and in the Suffolk Coastal District.

We currentlyown and manageover 4600 properties. We are always looking at ways to increase the number of homes we can offer and believe it is important to build communities not just homes.

We are committed to the provision of good-quality housing care and support services to meet local needs and to contribute to the development of sustainable communities. Our residents are at the heart of everything we do their views are important to us in helping shaping future services.

We employjust over 300 people two thirds of whom work providing care and support to people with learning disabilities. We also have an army of dedicated people behind the scenes providing a variety of services including rent collection gardening estate management and working on projects to build new houses.