AMS PSR

On behalf of Department for Education, we are looking for a Data Governance Officer (Inside IR35) for a 3 month contract based hybrid in Coventry, Darlington, Sheffield as and when required.

As a Data Governance Officer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Defining and establishing the roles of Data Owners and Stewards across the department.
• Driving cultural change and embedding Data ownership best practice across directorates
• Ensure compliance with data related regulation, policies, standards, roles and responsibilities.
• Support development of KPIs for Data Governance to demonstrate its value to the wider organisation.
• Passionate about data with good experience of doing process mapping, design and re-engineering preferably in a statistical based environment.
• Supporting the ongoing communication of delivery status to stakeholders
• Good experience of working across reference data, metadata and data lineage problems/solutions
• Building and maintaining strong relationship with external/internal stakeholders to support successful project on-boarding in use of data governance tool sets

Essential:

• Knowledge of data governance approaches, practices and pitfalls in a large organisation.
• Experience of change management and a track record of success.
• Ability to articulate messages to a variety of audiences.
• Experience of data profiling methods and tools and / or data quality management systems and processes.
• Experience of working in statistical and analytical environments will be an advantage

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, DfE 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.

DE&I Commitment

DfE 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. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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".