About this role
Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements
- Proven experience designing, implementing, or enhancing data governance frameworks within large organisations.
- Strong understanding of data governance principles, data lifecycle management, data quality, metadata management, and compliance requirements.
- Experience establishing or embedding data stewardship and data ownership models.
- Demonstrable expertise in data ethics, including developing policies, impact assessments, governance processes, and training programmes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing senior leaders and governance boards.
- Experience delivering governance initiatives across multiple workstreams and organisational functions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex governance concepts into practical guidance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Able to operate strategically while remaining hands-on in delivery, work autonomously, influence senior leadership, and make informed decisions with executive stakeholders.
- Confident challenging constructively, building consensus across complex stakeholder groups, and championing data governance best practice.
Responsibilities
- Drive accountability and ownership for data management across the full data lifecycle.
- Support implementation and continuous improvement of the organisations Data Governance Framework.
- Embed effective data ownership and stewardship practices across business and technical communities.
- Enable core governance capabilities and align them with strategic data objectives.
- Support the adoption of federated governance operating models across teams and business areas.
- Design and implement a data ethics policy, framework, and supporting governance processes.
- Develop data ethics impact assessments to identify, assess, and manage data ethics risks.
- Embed data ethics controls and governance activities into existing organisational governance structures.
- Assess current governance arrangements and recommend improvements to oversight of data ethics risks.
- Design or update Terms of Reference for governance boards and committees to support appropriate governance and accountability.
- Identify governance gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Support organisational change initiatives related to data governance and stewardship.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across digital, data, technology, risk, and compliance functions.
- Provide regular reporting, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership teams.
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We are Olive Jar Digital, an established digital consultancy approaching our 10th year. We deliver innovative digital services, products, and specialist expertise across government and regulated sectors. We are collaborative, inclusive, and people-focused, with ambitious growth plans and an exciting portfolio of digital transformation programmes. We support our teams in developing their roles and offer support to help them progress. This is a 9-month fixed-term Data Governance Manager role supporting a major public sector data transformation programme, within a senior data leadership function. The position is UK-wide and remote, with 60% hybrid office attendance required.
last updated 44 week of 2026