Data Governance Manager at Ministry of Defence, London/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you're a permanent appointee or an interim.Please Note: Active SC Clearance is required for this position. Candidates must be eligible/willing to undergo SC Screening as a minimum

 

Role Summary:A Data Governance Manager undertakes complex work related to the principles and practices of data governance, and co-ordinates with data owners to lead wider data management competencies.Your main day to day responsibilities will be to: Lead the formation, implementation and management of data governance frameworks, policies and standardsImplement and establish wider data management competencies within the organisation (such as data quality assurance, metadata management, master data management, data modelling, and development of data standards and data strategy)Be responsible for understanding and managing the organisational data risks and issues, and co-ordinating with data owners to accept or resolve themSkills, Knowledge and Experience:Communicating analysis and insight. You can turn complex data into compelling, clear and actionable stories. You can share data communication skills with the team and across government. You can present analysis and visualisations in clear ways to communicate complex messages. You cancommunicate negative and positive information to stakeholders. You can givetactical and strategic recommendations.Communicating between the technical and non-technical. You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them. You can effectively manage stakeholder expectations. You can manage active and reactive communication. You can support or host difficult discussionswithin the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.Data governance. You can implement and monitor data governance using standard methodology throughout the data life cycle, within a large organisation. You can meet the requirement for relevant data governance accreditation. You can take responsibility for specific parts of a data governance framework within the organisation.Data innovation. You can identify areas of innovation in data tools and techniques, and recognise appropriate timing for adoption.Data life cycle. You can understand and apply data governance structures and principles over a data life cycle, ensuring best practice at each phase. You can demonstrate knowledge of data governance industry standards. You can design and implement continuous improvements to optimise data governance over a data life cycle. You can work with internal and external stakeholders to build organisational capacity and capability in data governance.Data literacy improvement. You can recommend data literacy as a valuable skillacross all levels of the organisation. You can identify employee training courses and other opportunities to improve the organisation's data literacy skills and data-driven culture.Data management. You can advocate data governance and data managementstandards and guidelines within your team's products and services. You can continually communicate and improve data management practices in your teams. You can help define and support the use of common toolsets. You can seek to automate data management activities where possible. You can develop processes to enable good data management practices and compliance with data governance policies.Data maturity models. You can lead the implementation of data best practice,measure data maturity across different domains and communicate opportunities for improvement. You can take responsibility for monitoring and improving certain areas of organisational data maturityData regulation and ethics. You can demonstrate a good understanding ofrelevant data laws, regulations, codes of practice and ethical requirements, and can apply these to your work. You can understand how the law and ethicalconsiderations relate to one another. You can monitor the landscape and legislation to ensure you understand and can implement best practice in new areas of thought such as data ethics.Data standards. You can define data governance policies, processes andstandards, and can ensure these are understood at senior levels throughoutorganisational programmes and projects. You can work effectively with subject matter experts from across programmes to introduce best practice. You canindependently monitor how policies and standards are applied and complied with, taking action where necessary.Enabling and informing risk-based decisions. You can work with higher impactor more complex risks, advising on the impact and whether this is within risktolerance. You can apply different risk methodologies in proportion to the risk in question.Stakeholder relationship management. You can influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively. You can build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders.Strategic thinking. You can define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context. You can evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.Essential Criteria:Experience implementing and managing data governance frameworks - including data ownership, roles and responsibilities, policies, standards, controls and capabilities.Confident and experienced operating at management level, with strong leadership skills to deliver at pace.Experience of managing within data departments and/or programmes gained within a large data environment through Data transformation and data delivery implementation.Working knowledge and experience in embedding data quality, metadata and reference data management & business glossary platforms combined with developing people and processes to enable benefit realisation.Experienced facilitating workshops, data forums, requirements gathering and influencing others to innovate, with the ability to work in an Agile, fast-paced and multi-disciplinary team environment delivering successful results.Excellent verbal and presentational skills with the ability to communicate and influence stakeholders across varied senior levels.

 

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.Disability Confident As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the MOD guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.Armed Forces Covenant MOD guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.