Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Redaction and Publication Officer for an initial 23 month contract on a rate of £178.83/day (Outside IR35). This role will be primarily office-based, with a flexible option to have 2 working from home days per week.
 
Responsibilities:
 
– Be responsible for the redaction of documents, such as interviewee statements, hearing transcripts, etc., prior to publication on the organisation’s website, ensuring high degrees of accuracy and consistency.
– Be responsible for the preparation and publication of documents, such as interviewee statements, hearing transcripts, etc., on the organisation website, ensuring high degrees of accuracy and consistency.
– Be responsible for the creation and application of ciphers on redacted information, including related cipher databases and process flowcharts, ensuring high degrees of accuracy
– Develop extensive knowledge of the organisation evidence database and its contents
– Develop extensive knowledge of all case studies and the redaction guidelines, to allow informed decisions to be taken in relation to the approach to redaction
– Work closely with the organisation’s Legal and Paralegal Teams, while undertaking the redaction of sensitive personal data before documents and interviewee statements can be released to Core Participants (CPs)
– Ensure day-to-day delivery and completion of business processes, including redaction and publication actions and timelines, preparing reports and making recommendations to update where required
– Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the organisation, establishing effective working relationships with colleagues and in particular the Legal and Paralegal Teams
– Work to ensure the integrity of the organisation at all stages of the redaction and publication processes, safeguarding organisational, personal and reputational risk
– Work as part of a small to medium sized team, with an emphasis on encouragement, active listening, supporting each other’s wellbeing, and clear communication
– Support the Assistant Head: Redaction & Publication in timely publication of the organisation’s finalised documents.
– In the absence of the Assistant Head: Redaction & Publication, support colleagues handling sensitive, impacting personal information, monitoring team resilience
– Ensure the organisation’s Restriction Orders and policies are followed, and the organisation data protection and redaction and publication policies
– Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, such as Data Protection (DP) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR)
– Assist in providing support to the teams, in particular, the creation and maintenance of cipher keys, and the redaction of documents may require at short notice
– Where required, process and analyse documentary evidence gathered by the organisation, including the handling and management of sensitive and confidential information
– Carry out research tasks, primarily based on the documentary evidence, in support of organisation.
 
Essential Skills:
 
– High levels of interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, with excellent attention to detail
– Experience of working in small and medium sized teams
– High degrees of resilience and dealing with distressing subject matter
– Proven experience of working under pressure and to tight timelines
– Proven experience of handling sensitive information
– Proven experience in working autonomously and assuming responsibility for document quality standards
– An analytical thinker with the ability to also think laterally, i.e., context and jigsaw identification and
– Flexibility to work across the various functions in the wider team.
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