The UK’s regulator for issues of data protection is advertising for a senior manager to take the lead on implementing new uses of technology in support of wider organisational aims
The Information Commissioner’s Office is seeking to recruit a leader for its growing work with artificial intelligence and analytics.
The data-protection regulator has advertised a new post as head of analytics and AI, a role which comes with a salary of up to £79,732. The position comes with responsibility for leading the organisation’s operations in the field, including a remit to “oversee the delivery of analytics and AI solutions that deliver value and benefit to the organisation, ensuring outputs are high quality, accurate, and consider data privacy and data ethics by design”.
Such outputs are liable to “include reports and dashboards, data and statistical analyses, or products that utilise artificial intelligence technologies”.
In finding potential uses of new technology and analysis that could support these outcomes, the newly appointed leader will be expected to “work closely with business stakeholders to understand their priorities and challenges, bringing this together with your technical understanding of AI [and] analytics approaches, to determine practical solutions”.
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The ICO hopes that these new approaches “will contribute towards wider objectives belonging to our Enterprise Data Strategy, including our new data literacy initiative, the ICO Data Academy, to empower ICO’s people to better use and analyse data”.
The successful candidate will be expected to help “develop the necessary capabilities – people, processes, and technology – to support existing analytics communities across the ICO, and to assure effective data analytics practices throughout the organisation”.
Other responsibilities of the brief include serving as line manager of an existing analytics team, while playing “a coordinating and supporting role with analytics capabilities existing across the organisation”. The postholder will also be tasked with “establishing mechanisms [and] frameworks that provide assurances that AI solutions are built responsibly, and… are thoroughly considered and monitored”, as well as ensuring that “appropriate product-delivery mechanisms and methods are used to retain critical stakeholder engagement throughout the development of solutions”.
To fulfil all these duties, the ICO is seeking applicants with “substantial experience relevant to the role requirements… and accumulated through any combination of academic or vocational qualifications or experience”.
The post will be based in one of Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, or Manchester and applications are currently open until midnight on 27 April – although prospective candidates are advised that the watchdog “reserves the right to close this vacancy before this date should we receive sufficient applications – please apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered”.
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