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About the role:

As a Senior Data Governance Officer, you will be responsible for improving data quality, mentoring owners and stewards, creating data quality metrics, facilitating data projects, and leading business glossary sessions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring that data is accurate, complete, and consistent
• Working closely with data owners and stewards to establish best practice
• Facilitating training sessions and workshops, as well as providing ongoing feedback and support to staff to help them understand their roles
• Creating and analysing data quality metrics to measure the effectiveness of data quality efforts, identify areas for improvement and make recommendations for enhancement
• Facilitating data projects, ensuring that they align with organizational goals and objectives.
• Leading business glossary sessions, ensuring stakeholders understand key data terms and definitions

The University of Bath is embarking on the next stage of its digital journey through the creation of a Data and Insights Project. The project is part of the early enabling phase of university's Digital Transformation Programme. The project is managed through our central Strategic Projects Office, with sponsorship, leadership and core delivery from the Digital, Data and Technology team.

This is a full-time, fixed term position with an expected duration of 9 months.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Steph Calley, Data Governance Manager at [email protected].

About you:

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A solid understanding of data governance frameworks, good practice, policies and procedures
• Experience of information management practices including lifecycle management and audits
• Experience dealing with conflicting views and managing outcomes
• A demonstrable ability to lead and inspire team members at all levels
• Superb communication skills both verbally and written

About us:

Working in the university's Digital Data and Technology Group is an exciting and rewarding experience. This department is responsible for managing and maintaining the university's technology infrastructure, ensuring that it remains up-to-date, secure, and accessible to students, and staff. As a member of the Data team within this, you will have the opportunity to work as part of a project team and collaborate with colleagues from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines - both technical and non-technical.

What we can offer you:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
• an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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