# Lead Data Governance Manager

**Company**: Cabinet Office
**Location**: Bristol, South West, England; City of Westminster, Greater London, England; Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England; York, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England; Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, Scotland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 59,207 - 70,958 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

The Public Sector Reform Test, Learn and Grow (PSR TL&G) team is at the heart of the UK government's initiative to drive innovation and reform in public service delivery. With the £100 million PSR Innovation Fund, our team collaborates with local authorities and government departments across the United Kingdom and with the Devolved Governments to design, test, and grow innovative solutions that enhance public service outcomes.

As the Lead Data Governance Manager for the TL&G team, you'll work with colleagues from different multidisciplinary backgrounds in local government, central government and the wider public sector. You'll help them identify data protection and data sharing issues early. You'll support them in navigating complex data governance challenges, guiding them through the necessary processes, and ensuring proper join-up with the Cabinet Office Data Protection team.

**Main responsibilities:**

- Ensure the adoption and implementation of the programme's cross-organisational data governance framework, working closely with the Cabinet Office Data Protection team and our delivery partner–the transformation consultancy Public Digital (PD),

- Develop, implement and manage additional data governance frameworks, policies, standards and agreements for work with our other stakeholders,

- Set principles for a data privacy-first approach, ensuring that data protection is embedded in the programme's work and data risk is minimised,

- Establish and oversee the programme's data infrastructure,

- Be responsible for understanding and managing the programme's data risks and issues,

- Explore creative solutions to data governance issues that meet Cabinet Office's policies and standards,

- Ensure that data governance issues are understood by seniors in the programme and by the Grow part of the TLG team,

- Support the Grow part of the TLG team to understand good data practices established within our programme, identify opportunities to improve cross-government data governance and protection policy, and scope possible solutions where technical expertise is needed.

**Person specification:**

It's essential that you have the following skills:

- **Data ethics and privacy**

- Work with stakeholders to identify and address ethical and privacy concerns,

- Research developments in data ethics and privacy to improve compliance and processes,

- Assess and constructively challenge proposed data ethics policies.

- **Data governance**

- Implement and monitor data governance using standard methodology throughout the data life cycle.

- **Data innovation**

- Identify areas of innovation in data tools and techniques, and recognise appropriate timing for adoption.

- **Data life cycle**

- Understand and apply data governance structures and principles over a data life cycle, ensuring best practice at each phase,

- Demonstrate knowledge of data governance industry standards,

- Design and implement continuous improvements to optimise data governance over a data life cycle.

- **Data management**

- Monitor and improve data management practices,

- Help define, develop and support the use of data management tools, procedures and methods in compliance with data governance policies.

**Benefits:**

Alongside your salary of £59,207, Cabinet Office contributes £17,152 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. You will also receive:

- Learning and development tailored to your role.

- An environment with flexible working options.

- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.

- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.

- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

## Skills

### Required
- data governance
- data ethics and privacy
- data innovation
- data life cycle
- data management
- stakeholder relationship management
- communicating between technical and non-technical

### Nice to have
- cross-sectoral experience
- policy influencing skills
- data strategy and data policy development

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