Data Governance Analyst - Hybrid

Salary: Circa £42,000 per annum negotiable depending on experience + fantastic benefits

Jisc grade: PRS3 (internal use only)

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract: Permanent 

Location: Hybrid - A blend of working from home and your nominated hub office, we have hubs in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford. Specific patterns for working in the office are not mandated, and the frequency of time worked in the office is agreed with your manager. Meeting in person is something we value so you may need to travel on occasion to any of our hub offices.

About Jisc:

Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions. Our talented people bring their own unique skills and experience to empower our members and customers with the technology they need to succeed. Take your next career step with us and you can make a real difference to the education and research sectors.

About the role: 

As the Data Governance Analyst will play a key role in the development, implementation and maintenance of the data governance framework for our structured data across the business to ensure its data quality, security, privacy, and regulatory compliance. You will contribute to all operational aspects of the Data governance team’s work and support the Data governance manager in Jisc wide projects and programmes featuring data governance considerations.

You will be helping to improve our data standards, working closely with our data architects, data stewards, the information security and privacy teams, and your colleagues in the data governance team to assess and advise the business on the compliance of our data estate with Jisc’s data governance standards. Your role will be to work closely with stakeholders across Jisc in developing and embedding best data practices. This will require expanding our capability and accountability through standards, policies, guidance and processes for the effective governance of the value, risks and constraints related to Jisc's structured data; from creation or acquisition to eventual disposal, and the development of a mature responsible data culture.

Responsibilities:

• To lead on the development of structured data governance standards, related policy and the monitoring and reporting on the management of risk and value of Jisc’s structured data estate for operational and strategic purposes, and to ensure Jisc is meeting its legal and ISO27001 obligations for the management of its structured data assets.
• You will represent the Data governance team as required in different governance groups such as CAB-IT, Data Governance leads quarterly meetings and IDGG as a subject matter expert and providing thought leadership.
• To maintain an awareness of legal and practical requirements related to data governance and the ability to apply them to Jisc’s operations, contributing to the development and maintenance of Jisc information and data policies, processes, standards and guidance.
• You will develop our use of data governance tools and technical controls for structured data assets, for example but not limited to, the Microsoft Purview data map and data catalogue or the application of data governance controls in tools such as Databricks’ unified data catalogue.
• To be actively engaged in the design and delivery of key data governance programme projects and initiatives to develop Jisc’s data governance maturity, for example advising and supporting the technical teams’ deployment of metadata to support effective data governance.

Key Skills and Experience:

• You will have experience of working in an equivalent data governance role or environment
• Ideally you will have worked on technical/IT activities with a range of audiences and roles within an organisation.
• You will have worked with business users, data architects, data stewards and business analysts.
• Experience of planning and conducting checks, reviews and assessments in line with the requirements of ISO standards such as ISO 9001 or 27001.
• The experience of working with metadata architectures and standards, data models and confident use of tools and dashboards to monitor the health of the data estate.
• You will have the ability to communicate and adapt as appropriate to the audience and medium, and to build a strong rapport with individuals at all levels of Jisc.
• You are flexible in approach and able to adapt to new situations, communicating as appropriate to the audience and context.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box, so we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements, but you feel this role is perfect for you. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Why work for us?

At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. We want to create a culture of lifelong learning. You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.

We believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment. We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working.

It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. Our hybrid working policy is flexible, and the frequency of time spent in your nominated office will vary across teams and job roles.

Take a look at our fantastic benefits! We offer:

• Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
• 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas plus the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days
• Generous flexible pension schemes
• Protection benefit – life cover
• Annual Jisc performance award
• A range of wellbeing lifestyle benefits including company paid health care cash plan, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders and support
• A generous budget to support you with external learning and continuous professional development
• Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
• Financial well-being support including access to preferential loan and savings plans, mortgage advice, will writing tools and support and resources to help you make the most of your money
• The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
• Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech – spreading the cost of your everyday white goods and technology
• A wide range of discounts from retailers and big-name high-street stores and CSSC membership
• Family friendly policies including enhanced parental, maternity and paternity leave and opportunity for career breaks
• Support your volunteering with up to 3 days volunteer leave
• Cycle to work scheme and eye care scheme including free eye test vouchers and £70 towards new glasses for VDU use
• Free flu vaccinations
• Employee recognition awards and travel loans
• A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning

Equity, diversity and inclusion:

At Jisc, we don’t look for ‘sameness’, but to truly include people who can add unique perspectives and experiences to our culture, and we are working hard to achieve progressive change. ‘Always inclusive’ is one of our six guiding principles which actively encourages us to bring our whole authentic selves to work. We believe that our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion is fundamental to our success.

Jisc believes our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We work with passionate colleagues to strengthen knowledge and awareness, provide learning and development opportunities, and foster multiple employee networks which create a sense of community and influence our policies and practice.

We work hard to create an equitable experience for our candidates and workforce which embraces all aspects of their identity including race and ethnicity, religion and belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, trans identities, age, class, disability, neurodivergence, or veteran status.

Application process:

We want you to showcase your talent throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know how we can best support you to do that; for example, if there are any reasonable adjustments we may be able to put in place. We will be happy to help you.

Just so you know, we review CVs as soon as we can and aim to provide an update on your application within 4 weeks of receiving it.  However, you may hear from us a lot sooner, so please keep an eye out for our emails or calls! 

If you are currently a Jisc employee, please apply through your Dayforce Employee profile.

Jisc has an active sponsor licence to recruit on a Skilled worker visa basis. Candidates wishing to apply who require sponsorship should determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the role by assessing their circumstances against the relevant Home Office criteria. Jisc does not offer any financial re-imbursement towards the applicant costs, such as re-location, skilled worker visa and dependant costs or the immigration health charge.

No agencies please.