Lead Data Governance Manager

Salary range

£57,954 - £65,400

Job description

Job Title: Lead Data Governance Manager

Band: 5
Salary: £57, 954 - £65,400

Location: Liverpool, Newport, Norwich or Birmingham

Term: Permanent

Hours: Full time/Compressed/Part Time/Job Share

Closing Date: 01/12/24

Are you passionate about data and insights, building skills, and coaching people in this field?

Do you excel at helping teams embrace new ways of working and enhance their capabilities?

Are you ready for a challenge? Join our data strategy team at this exciting time as we embark on a journey to transform the use of data and insights in both our directorate and our organisation.

Job Summary

CCS has an ambition to be led by data and insights. The Head of Data Governance acts as a leader in shaping and implementing strategies/processes that ensure the organisation's data is of high quality, secure and compliant with regulations. This role plays a pivotal role in fostering a data-driven culture and aligning data practices with business objectives.

Directorate Overview

The DID team is central to making sure that decisions made within CCS are driven by data and insights. As a directorate, we provide reporting and insight support across all areas of CCS, including:

• supplier research
• framework analysis
• internal performance reporting

We are continuing to enhance our performance analytics capabilities and are looking at ways we can gain a deeper understanding of how our users interact with CCS. We are also expanding our data science strengths and exploring new ways to apply emerging technologies, like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

Team Summary

This role integrates into the Data, Insights and Delivery senior leadership team (SLT) and works in collaboration with the Data Engineering Quality lead. Together the team provides cross functional leadership in undertaking analysis, making decisions and driving actions that improve the use and management and value of data in CCS.

Key responsibilities:

• Define the data governance strategy for the organisation, and join it with the wider organisational strategy. Ensuring that best practice data policies, processes and standards are understood at senior levels throughout the organisation's programmes and projects
• Design, implement and monitor data governance within the organisation, and throughout the data life cycle
• Define strategies to enable continual improvement of data management practices and compliance with data governance policies
• Engage and work effectively with technical leaders and senior stakeholders to implement data governance and ensure compliance, in particular assisting, coaching and developing the Data Quality and Lineage lead for CCS to deliver change
• Set and monitor the adherence to data governance policies, frameworks and standards required in Government
• Be accountable for understanding and handling the organisational data risks and issues, and co-ordinating with data owners to accept or resolve them
• Act as an advisor across Crown Commercial Services and lead on the best practice of data security development, in accordance with the data enterprise architecture whilst consulting with the CCS central assurance and information security team.
• Maintain effective long-term relationships at a senior level with important decision-makers and influencers
• Investigate emerging trends in data-related approaches, perform horizon-scanning for the organisation and introduce innovative ways of working

Essential criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate relevant, compelling stories using the most appropriate medium (including complex recommendations at a tactical and strategic level, presenting analysis and visualisations in clear ways to communicate complex messages)
• Experience of managing stakeholder expectations and moderating discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales
• Experience of owning data governance structures and principles, and ensuring that they're defined and applied with best practice throughout a data life cycle
• Experience of directing continuous improvements to optimise data governance over a data life cycle
• Experience of working with an organisation's most senior stakeholders to provide data assurance, report assessment findings to boards or committees, and communicate improvement plans

Desirable criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

• Expertise in government commercial and finance structures and procedures

Success profiles (To be assessed at interview stage):

Behaviours:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating & Influencing
• Changing & Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical

• Communicating analysis and insight

What we will offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Generous pension scheme
• A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
• Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Explore fully how we will reward your work.

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.