Data Strategy Lead — Governance Boards, KPIs and Data Source Onboarding for NATO with security clearance

A multinational defence organisation is putting its data governance on a properfooting. This is the role that runs it week by week: the board the packages that go to it thedecisions that come out of it and the indicators that show whether any of it is working.

What you would be doing

• Chairing the weekly data governance board planning it running it and closing it with cleardecisions actions and named owners.
• Preparing the submission packages that go to that board and confirming each one is completeand mature enough to be decided on rather than deferred.
• Recording proceedings properly: decisions actions owners and deadlines distributed to thepeople they bind and stored where they stay traceable.
• Tracking and reporting data governance indicators and data quality measures every week andnaming the performance gaps and their root causes rather than the numbers alone.
• Checking that the mandatory governance artefacts are actually collected against the boardsterms of reference and reporting what is missing or out of date.
• Supervising the working group that prepares decision and recommendation packages so whatreaches the board has already been worked.
• Proposing and tracking the corrective and improvement actions that follow from all of it.

What you would bring

• Data governance in practice not in theory: running boards owning artefacts chasing ownersand keeping a register that people trust.
• Chairing meetings where technical and non-technical stakeholders have to reach a decision.
• Defining and reporting data quality and governance indicators and turning them into actionssomebody is accountable for.
• Data source onboarding the procedures the evidence the sequence in which it has tohappen.
• Writing that holds up as a record: minutes recommendations submission packages.
• Fluent professional English.