Associate Data Governance Manager

Job summary

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

Data Products, Services and Governance (DPSG), which sits centrally within ONS, provides a cross-ONS capability for data, including data access and preparation, and the provision of data and linked data products. DPSG develops and manages the systems and processes that underpin the distribution of data across ONS and beyond. DPSG provides data to ONS, academia, wider government, and other external users in a safe and controlled way, supporting and encouraging users to maximise data utility, enabling innovation and statistical and research use.

We are seeking a motivated Associate Data Governance Managers to join our Data Products, Services and Governance Directorate. These roles span a range of business areas across the Office for National Statistics, reflecting the critical importance of data governance in how data is collected, managed and used. You’ll be at the heart of the data life cycle, helping to ensure our data delivers value safely and effectively.

Job description

The Associate Data Governance Manager role can cover multiple areas within the Office for National Statistics which reflects the critical role Data Governance plays and the life cycle of data moving through the office.

In this role you will be working as part of the Data Governance Office Team to support the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Deputy CDO to ensure good governance of all data within the ONS. This team engages across ONS with subject matter experts in a range of data management areas, tapping into their expertise to develop strategy and identify, collate and catalogue, policies, standards, guidance, and metadata. This team works with staff holding data governance roles & responsibilities to ensure that the strategy, policies, and standards are known, adopted, embedded and adhered to and supports the tracking and reporting of key performance indicators to demonstrate the effectiveness of this work

All Data Governance roles within ONS apply relevant data and ethical frameworks and standards to their work and understand data governance good practice. Specifically, providing advice to users on the technical, ethical, data protection and security, and legal aspects (e.g. GDPR) of using data, and the benefits of using it.

You will be able to grasp statistical, economic, and social concepts quickly, identifying common needs for data and communicating appropriately and clearly between technical and non-technical audiences.

You will understand data and how they can be prepared for, and used in, statistics and research and how they can benefit policy and decision making, as well as understanding the economy and society better. You will need to build and demonstrate a good understanding of data and how it is used in the production of official statistics and research.

Responsibilities

• Support the process of capturing stakeholder needs, assessing, defining and justifying those needs to arrive at a definitive set of user requirements that are reflected in the required documentation.
• Support the stakeholder engagement activity of your team.
• Support the Secretariat function of the DG Office, providing updates and reporting to the Data Governance Council, data owners and the communities of practice.
• Support the preparation of documentation for data sharing and/or governance, for example memorandums of understanding, business cases and policy documents, and play an instrumental role in standardising this documentation.
• Develop a good understanding of data sharing legislation, data governance and data management and be able to apply this to your day-to-day work.
• Develop and continuously improve your understanding of the technical aspects of data management such as quality management, metadata and data standards.
• Have a broad understanding of both data and data governance and be able to explain this to a non-technical audience.
• Identify, understand and communicate factors that influence and shape data and present in a way appropriate to the audience.
• Maximise the use of administrative and survey data for statistics through your understanding of the value of these data, including what is already available to use in ONS and what the wider landscape of data can provide.
• Develop and maintain project plans, incorporating requirements, deliverables and risks that are associated with the project.
• Proactively identify your own development needs, ensuring that you deliver your responsibilities to the highest possible standard.
• Contribute to activity that benefits the strategic aims of the division or directorate, ensuring it is the best possible place to work.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• Stakeholder relationship management (Awareness) - Describe who your stakeholders are and the importance of managing relationships with them. Explain what your stakeholders find important and why.
• Data management (Working) - Follow organisational data governance, including policies on data access, sharing, dissemination and protection. Participate in or deliver data management across services or products. Use appropriate data management tools, procedures and methods with some support
• Communicating between the technical and the non-technical (Working) - Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Support and host discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics. Be an advocate for the team externally. Manage differing stakeholder perspectives
• Data Life Cycle (Working) - Understand and apply data governance over a data life cycle, ensuring best practice at each phase.
• Data Governance (Working) - Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of data governance theory, standard methodology and the practical considerations. Develop an end-to-end data governance framework (the processes, operational policies and standards needed to support data management). Work effectively with technical teams and other stakeholders to implement a data governance framework, and make recommendations to ensure compliance.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,587, Office for National Statistics contributes £10,019 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

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