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About the Role
This role offers an opportunity to lead a council-wide function, modernize records management, and embed practical, sustainable standards that make a visible and lasting difference. Your expertise will be valued and supported by an inclusive, collaborative team, with access to excellent learning and development opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Set a clear council-wide direction for records management by developing, implementing, and continuously improving the strategy, policies, standards, and procedures.
- Enable colleagues and senior managers to make sound, compliant decisions about the creation, storage, security, access, sharing, preservation, retention, and disposal of records and information.
- Strengthen digital records and information management approaches, including the appropriate use and governance of SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and artificial intelligence.
- Build consistent, practical approaches to Information Asset Registers, retention schedules, and the appropriate disposal of information (digital and physical).
- Shape new systems, technologies, and transformation projects so that effective information management is designed in from the outset.
- Manage the contract and relationship with the council’s third-party provider for off-site records storage and scanning services.
- Promote a positive records management culture through clear guidance, relevant training, active engagement, and practical support.
Requirements
- Experienced records management professional with strong technical knowledge, sound judgement, and a practical, solutions-focused mindset.
- Ability to understand how to turn legal, regulatory, and organizational requirements into approaches that work in practice.
- Comfortable working across a large and complex organisation, balancing strategic priorities and transformation projects with day-to-day advice and support.
- Confident communicator and relationship-builder, able to translate records management requirements into workable solutions and influence colleagues at every level.
- Ability to help senior managers, suppliers, and partners understand what good information management requires and why it matters.
- Confidence to challenge established ways of working when needed, while understanding operational pressures and finding pragmatic solutions.
Skills
- Records management
- Information governance
- Data protection
- Freedom of information
- Transparency
- Digital governance
- SharePoint
- Microsoft 365
- Artificial intelligence
- Information Asset Registers
- Retention schedules
- Contract management
- Training
- Communication
- Relationship building
Location
- Colindale (Primary base)
- Remote (Flexibility for some home-working)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Experienced
Benefits
- 31 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Comprehensive Flexible Working Policy
- Vast range of lifestyle discounts
- Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Employee well-being training programs including confidential employee assistance
About the Company
- Barnet is a borough with excellent schools, vibrant town centres, vast green spaces, and diverse communities.
- The council aims to build on these strengths, growing and developing as an organisation to meet challenges.
- Staff are committed to Our Values: Learning to Improve, Caring, Inclusive, Collaborative.
- The Records and Information Management Team leads the council’s approach to information governance and compliance with information law, providing trusted advice on data protection, freedom of information, records management, and transparency.
Equal Opportunity
- Barnet Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
- Barnet operates stringent safer recruitment procedures.
- To deliver Barnet Council’s commitment to equality of opportunity in the provision of services, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers.
- Barnet Council embraces all forms of flexible working (including part-time, compressed hours, and hybrid working) and is committed to offering employees a healthy work-life balance.
- Barnet Council is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
- We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities.
- If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert.
- We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process.
- We support the access to work scheme.