Data Protection & Information Governance Practitioner Apprenticeship (level 4) FTC 21 months
Which?
LONDON (NW1 4DF)
Closes in 16 days (Monday 24 November 2025)
Posted on 6 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Your role is to support in making decisions that are right for Which? right for consumers, and consistent with data privacy obligations. Your day-to-day responsibilities will be wide ranging and include responding to individual rights requests and assessing privacy risks & incidents, as well as providing advice and guidance more generally.
- Wage
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£24,933 a year
- Training course
- Data protection and information governance practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Mon-Friday 9am-5pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 12 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 9 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Key responsibilities include:
- Responding to data subject rights requests like subject access requests
- Assessing incidents or breaches, working with colleagues to take the right actions quickly
- Helping the business protect personal data, including responding to basic data protection queries and ensuring our internal records are up to date
- Preparing reports on key privacy metrics, activities and trends
Where you'll work
CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION LTD
2 MARYLEBONE ROAD
LONDON
NW1 4DF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE SPECIALISTS HUB LTD
Training course
Data protection and information governance practitioner (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Use IT systems to manage, share and store information in accordance with data protection requirements and organisation policies.
- Communicate complex subjects in simple terms through different media (such as face to face meetings, emails, reports and presentations) to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Prepare documentation and materials for review and ratification.
- Working at times under time pressure, prioritising their workloads in order to raise and resolve areas of concern such as individual rights, breach management, FOI requests and information sharing.
- Being able to accept and deal with changing priorities related to both their own work and to the organisation, showing the flexibility to maintain high standards in a changing environment.
- Undertake data collection, data analysis, data presentation and date storage such as data incidents.
- Interpret regulation and legislation, share best practice and advise stakeholders on its application.
- Identify organisation needs and how these are applied to enquiries.
- Interpret and apply sector guidance appropriately.
- Undertake investigations and interviews in order to assess a data breach.
- Gather, analyse, use and share data to inform risk assessment and make judgements on actions to take.
- Make decisions on data protection and information governance issues raised and ensure that any areas of concern are escalated to the stakeholders.
- Provide day to day support, specialist advice, guidance and training across the organisation and external stakeholders for all matters regarding information governance and data protection.
- Identify potential data solutions and evidence the way in which they could improve data management.
- Use IT systems to manage, share and store information in accordance with data protection requirements and organisation policies.
- Communicate complex subjects in simple terms through different media (such as face to face meetings, emails, reports and presentations) to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Prepare documentation and materials for review and ratification.
- Working at times under time pressure, prioritising their workloads in order to raise and resolve areas of concern such as individual rights, breach management, FOI requests and information sharing.
- Being able to accept and deal with changing priorities related to both their own work and to the organisation, showing the flexibility to maintain high standards in a changing environment.
- Undertake data collection, data analysis, data presentation and date storage such as data incidents.
- Interpret regulation and legislation, share best practice and advise stakeholders on its application.
- Identify organisation needs and how these are applied to enquiries.
- Interpret and apply sector guidance appropriately.
- Undertake investigations and interviews in order to assess a data breach.
- Gather, analyse, use and share data to inform risk assessment and make judgements on actions to take.
- Make decisions on data protection and information governance issues raised and ensure that any areas of concern are escalated to the stakeholders.
- Provide day to day support, specialist advice, guidance and training across the organisation and external stakeholders for all matters regarding information governance and data protection.
- Identify potential data solutions and evidence the way in which they could improve data management.
Training schedule
Training provider and hands-on training within the team.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
Which? is the UK's consumer champion, here to make life simpler, fairer and safer for everyone. As an organisation we're not for profit and all for making consumers more powerful. We impact in key areas such as consumer rights, scams, data protection and unfair pricing. Our investigations go deep and our expert advice is completely impartial. Same goes for our product reviews – our rigorous tests and expert recommendations help consumers to make better decisions. Come and champion consumers with us – it's important work. As people we're brave, caring, rigorous and insightful in the way we connect with each other to make change happen.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
if any role arises within the company they are welcome to apply.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE SPECIALISTS HUB LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349816.
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Closes in 16 days (Monday 24 November 2025)
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