Head, Data Governance at Save the Children

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead and oversee data governance processes, ensuring all key business stakeholders are engaged and supported in understanding and utilising our data infrastructure effectively
• Establish and maintain clear expectations for business functions regarding their data governance responsibilities, including maintaining data definitions and ensuring data quality
• Structure and streamline data availability, ensuring that business users have clear and accessible information to make informed decisions
• Chair and manage key forums such as the Product Owners Forum and the Analytics Community of Practice to foster collaboration and shared learning across the organisation
• Take business ownership of cross-functional data products, ensuring that reporting and analytics tools meet the needs of all stakeholders while maintaining data integrity
• Collaborate closely with IT to ensure seamless integration of technical and business aspects of data management products and processes, promoting a unified and efficient approach

Experience and Skills
Essential

• Data Governance Expertise: Extensive experience in leading implementation of data governance frameworks, data catalogues, metadata management, and data quality processes.
• Data Quality Management: Significant experience in ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across systems.
• Analytics and Reporting Tools: Extensive experience with various reporting and analytics tools, such as Tableau, Power BI, or SAS
• Team Leadership: Ability to lead cross-functional teams, offering guidance and fostering a collaborative environment that aligns with SCI's values
• Stakeholder Engagement: Proven experience in engaging and managing stakeholders from diverse business functions effectively
• Facilitation: Experience in chairing forums of key technical stakeholders, encouraging shared learning and solutions. Capable of translating complex technical information to actionable, clear summary information
• Technical-Non-Technical Integration: Ability to work closely with IT to ensure seamless integration of technical and business aspects in data management processes
• Strategic Vision: Ability to think strategically about data governance on a global scale, setting ambitious and challenging goals for the team. Encourages and applies new and innovative solutions to drive data governance and management efforts

Desirable

• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience

 
Education and Qualifications

• Experience managing data governance initiatives in large organizations
• Educated to degree level or equivalent work experience