Data Governance, Policy and Awareness Senior

Job Role
Responsible for IsDB wide data governance framework and IMDT policy development, design, implementation and maintenance. Provide knowledge and experience to implement IsDB data governance practices, frameworks, IMDT policies, standards, tools, processes, policies and projects to capture, control, protect and deliver the value of both data and information as an organizational asset as well as deliver quality IT services. The Data Governance, Policy and Awareness Senior Specialist develops appropriate awareness campaigns and educating materials for IsDB globally, IsDB staff and contractors considering appropriate mechanisms for each recipient and measures the effectiveness of each campaign.

Key Accountabilities
- Ensure and supervise the development, approval, review and maintenance of IsDB data governance practices and programs, IMDT policy hierarchy structure, standards, guidelines and procedures to ensure that IsDB and IMDT staff do their tasks in an organized way and having the proper references to fulfill their tasks.
- Establish a network with key stakeholders throughout IsDB to understand risks and business objectives. Monitor the top risks to IsDB and identify framework and policy requirements needed to mitigate those risks.
- Coordinate and manage the implementation of the data governance plans, architecture, frameworks and artefacts to ensure data governance across IsDB.
- Engage with business and with IT to acquire the functional knowledge to define and operate IsDB Data Governance and Data Management practices covering Data Strategy, Metadata, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Analytics, Data Architecture, Data Quality, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Flow, Data Lifecycle / Linage Management in line with DAMA PMBOK2 principles and common practices.
- Ensure that the critical data elements (CDEs) maintained in the metadata repository and comply with the data governance / quality framework (i.e. that they have business rules/data quality standards associated to them) and liaison with data owners and consumers for that purpose. Work with data owners, data stewards, DQ developers to analyze and translate business needs into a data quality management architecture.
- Participate in the analysis, evaluation and development of long-term strategic and operating plans to ensure that data governance objectives are consistent with IsDB’s long-term business objectives.
- Execute data management projects delivery in adherence with data governance practices.
- Support IsDB data cleansing activities and subsequent analysis of the cleansed data. Analyze the data at micro and macro levels to ensure data integrity, consistency and accuracy.
- Acquire, deploy and use the appropriate tools to cleanse IsDB data and to analyze the cleansed data using dashboards to demonstrate the results of data cleaning analysis.
- Scope, design and execute the awareness campaigns to meet targeted goals. Lead the creation and procurement of awareness deliverables and learning content, leveraging various mechanisms for effective delivery in IsDB, measure the usage of the content and its effectiveness, and develop metrics.
- Raise awareness through conducting meetings (i.e. committees, working groups) to support IsDB departments understand and execute enterprise wide data governance responsibilities, and ensure data governance frameworks, policies, processes, and procedures are defined and implemented across the organization, and to ensure accuracy, completeness, integrity and consistency of IsDB data.
- Provide guidance, develop, manage and implement a positive awareness programs for (data governance, standards, frameworks, information security, policies, processes, procedures) focused on improving positive behaviors to the business users, technical users, contractors, new hire orientation, and stakeholders.
- Measure and report of awareness campaign effectiveness based on quizzes and tests. Ensure that the awareness programs and campaigns are effectively changing behaviors, refining program design and execution as required.

Job Requirements*
Academic qualifications: *
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Technology, Statistics, Data Analytics, Information Security, Engineering or similar field

**Experience requirements**:

- Total minimum 8 years of experience with practical experience with data governance function or enterprise data governance, policy management and common IT industry standards

**Language requirements**:

- English (mandatory)
- Arabic (preferred)
- French (preferred)

Skills & Necessary Knowledge
- Relevant Data Architecture, Data Governance, BI \ Analytics and Content Management knowledge
- Enterprise Data and Information Strategy
- Experience working with common information security standards, such as: ISO 27001/27002, NIST, PCI DSS, ITIL, COBIT
- Adoption and Change management knowledge
- Analytical conceptual thinking and problem solving
- Experience in developing