We are hiring! Come work for an amazing organization! https://careers.members1st.org/jobs/2623?lang=en-us Responsibilities The Data Governance Manager is critical in ensuring the effective management, integrity, and security of our organization's data assets. The role will lead the development and implementation of data governance policies, procedures, and practices to optimize data quality, accessibility, and compliance. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will drive data governance initiatives, monitor data-related processes, and ensure alignment with industry standards and regulations. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Data Governance Strategy: • Execute a comprehensive data governance strategy aligned with the organization's objectives. • Define data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Data Quality and Integrity: • Establish data quality standards, metrics, and processes to monitor and maintain data accuracy and consistency. • Collaborate with teams to identify data quality issues, root causes, and implement corrective actions. Data Catalog and Classification: • Classify data based on sensitivity levels and establish data access controls to safeguard sensitive information. • Catalog data sources with metadata according to standards. • • Work with IT and security teams to enforce data security measures and ensure compliance with data protection regulations. Data Standards and Documentation: • Define data naming conventions, data dictionaries, and metadata standards for consistent data understanding across the organization. • Maintain documentation of data governance policies, processes, and data lineage. Data Governance Framework Implementation: • Implement data governance tools and technologies to support data lineage, data cataloging, and data quality monitoring. • Lead the adoption of data governance practices across the organization, providing training and guidance to staff. Stakeholder Collaboration: • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including IT, legal, compliance, and business units to gather requirements and ensure data governance alignment. • Foster communication between data producers and data consumers to promote understanding and adherence to data governance principles. Compliance and Regulation: • Stay updated with industry regulations (e.g., CCPA, COPPA) and ensure data governance practices are compliant. • Work with legal and compliance teams to implement data privacy and protection measures. Data Governance Reporting: • Create and present data governance progress reports, data quality metrics, and compliance assessments to senior management. Continuous Improvement: • Monitor industry best practices and evolving trends in data governance to enhance the organization's data management capabilities. • Continuously refine data governance policies and procedures based on feedback and changing business needs. • Primary point of responsibility, accountability and activity for the assessment, improvement and governance of quality and ongoing fitness-for-purpose of an organization's critical data assets. • Data stewards are not owners of the data but rather serve as trustees to ensure adequate data quality is maintained so that data can effectively support business processes. • Engages with business leadership to quantify and articulate the business impact of data quality issues. • Assesses the current state of data quality within their scope of responsibility. • Establishes target goals for data quality improvement and identifies optimal approaches for resolving data quality issues to achieve targets. • Works within and beyond area of control to implement improvement approaches. • Identifies data quality metrics and executes data quality audits to benchmark the state of data quality. • Monitors, tracks and reports ongoing data quality levels. Evaluates and improves processes for investigating, documenting, and reporting unauthorized access or disclosure of personal information. • Develops, implements, and updates data related privacy policies, standards and procedures, and corrective actions as needed in response to complaints concerning the organization’s processing of personal information. • Maintains and updates the IT Privacy Program Strategy in collaboration with legal and governance teams. • Creates and delivers privacy related training programs and anti-phishing awareness campaigns for all employees, contractors, and any appropriate third parties. • Responsible for privacy program risk assessments and resulting mitigation and remediation plans. • Maintains current knowledge of applicable data protection laws and accreditation standards. • Collaborates with the cyber security branch to lead discovery, prioritization, and implementation of privacy solutions.
