Data Governance Manager

After a year into this role as Data Governance Manager, you’ll be able to look around and see your fingerprints all over how data is managed.

You’ll have introduced Data Owners who genuinely understand what they own, Data Stewards who know what good looks like, clearer standards around Data Quality, and a Data Governance function that you've helped build. Overall, you’ll drive better conversations about data across the organisation.

This Midlands based Housing Association has created a brand-new Data Governance Manager role to help shape and embed their approach to data governance. You'll be joining at a point where there's a real appetite to improve how data is governed, trusted and owned, but plenty still needs to be shaped.

That means developing and embedding the Data Governance Framework and Operating Model, establishing Data Owner and Data Steward communities, improving Data Quality and creating much clearer accountability for data across the business. It won’t be just about frameworks, but also about engaging across the business to get people to buy into data.

You'll spend a lot of your time working with people outside of the Data team, helping them understand why the quality of their data matters, what they're responsible for and how better data ultimately helps them make better decisions. You'll become the person people turn to when they need help making sense of Data Governance, while also having the credibility to challenge senior stakeholders when ownership…