At Barnardo's our mission is - Changing Childhoods and Changing Lives, so that children, young people, and families are safe, happy, healthy, and hopeful. To do this, we rely on high-quality data to inform our decisions, support our beneficiaries, engage donors, influence policy and demonstrate impact. We're looking for a Data Governance Officer to help us build the data foundations that underpin our work.
The Role
As our Data Governance Officer, you will join our multi-disciplinary Data Management Team within our Digital, Data and Technology Directorate. You will play a central role in supporting colleagues across the Charity to implement our data governance strategy, ensuring that colleagues are enabled to manage data ethically, securely, and legally across a wide and varied set of functions.
You will be as passionate and knowledgeable about supporting colleagues to develop an effective data culture and bring about the mindset and behaviour change that this requires as you are about data governance. We are a small team building culture change and supporting colleagues to take on new roles and responsibilities around data, placing ownership where it is most effective and enabling colleagues to see their relationships with data differently.
You will have:
1. Experience in data governance or data management – ideally in the charity or public sector.
2. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, especially with non-technical audiences.
3. A collaborative approach and ability to influence change across teams.
4. A passion for ethical data use and making a difference through better information.
5. Working knowledge of data protection laws (e.g. GDPR) and how they apply to charities.
Key Responsibilities
6. Implementation, review, and refinement of the data governance framework, strategy and vision ensuring that these align with the Charity's Corporate Strategy.
7. Enabling and promoting data governance best practice in the charity
8. Contribute to enterprise-wide data management, working closely with data architecture/engineering colleagues and the wider business teams.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
9. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
10. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
11. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
12. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
13. Service related sick pay from day 1
14. Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
15. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
16. Cycle2work scheme
17. Interest free season ticket loans
18. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
19. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
20. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
21. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
22. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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