Data Protection Apprentice
MARKERSTUDY GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
Peterborough (PE3 8BG)
Closes in 26 days (Monday 1 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 4 November 2025
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Summary
The apprenticeship offers extensive data protection law training and mentoring from the Data Protection Team. You’ll support by providing commercially focused advice, identifying data protection issues, and monitoring compliance, an ideal start for a career in this field.
- Wage
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£26,000 a year
- Training course
- Data protection and information governance practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 December 2025
- Duration
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1 year 4 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
- Identify, assess, and investigate data breaches, ensuring all relevant information is collected, and flag high-risk cases to the Data Protection Officer (DPO)
- Monitor breach trends and identify areas for improvement
Assist the Data Protection Assistant with inbox triage and support Managers/Data Protection Officer with research, projects, and other ad hoc tasks - Manage horizon scanning, intranet pages, and the creation of reports, presentations, and other documents
- Monitor deadlines to ensure responses meet regulatory requirements
- Collate statistics for internal reporting and assist with Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs)
- Continue developing knowledge across all areas of data protection
Where you'll work
Fusion House
Katharine Way, Bretton
Peterborough
PE3 8BG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DAMAR LIMITED
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
Data Protection and Information Governance Practitioner
Level 4 (Higher national certificate) Apprenticeship Standard:
- This 19-month Data Protection apprenticeship provides the foundation for a career in our Data Protection team
- Excellent training will be provided to support you by experts within our business and our apprenticeship provider at our Peterborough site
- Training and studying will make up 20% of the course
Requirements
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
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
Markerstudy specialises in motor insurance and supporting services. With deep knowledge and experience, we offer competitive policies that cover both standard drivers and those with more specialist needs, such as young drivers, owners of high‑performance or imported cars, kit cars, or drivers in unusual occupations or with conviction/accident histories. We partner with UK brokers and intermediaries to tailor cover to customers’ requirements.
After this apprenticeship
- Data Protection Officer (DPO)
- Data Protection Analyst
- Data Protection Manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MARKERSTUDY GROUP SERVICES LIMITED
Megan Bruce
meganbruce1@markerstudy.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349544.
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Closes in 26 days (Monday 1 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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