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On a cross‑department data‑sharing programme, I was accountable for ensuring we complied with Cabinet Office functional standards and our department’s information governance policy. The risk was clear: six agencies sharing data on 4.5 million citizens, with a Ministerial launch date already announced. I started by turning the policy language into a simple controls matrix: for each standard, we defined an owner, evidence, and how often it was checked. That fed directly into the project plan, RAID log, and decision papers for our steering board. Day to day, I set up “design clinics” with legal, security and policy so product teams could get fast decisions within 48 hours instead of waiting for the monthly board. We also introduced mandatory privacy impact checkpoints at discovery, alpha, and before go‑live. As a result, we passed our internal assurance gate at first attempt, reduced open compliance risks by 60%, and avoided a six‑month delay that similar programmes had experienced.
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In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?
Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?