Role purpose
Advise clients on the design and operation of QDKC-aligned governance frameworks, policies, roles, committees, decision mechanisms and performance controls.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver QDKC-aligned client work using the official guides, templates and frameworks relevant to the engagement.
- Assess client evidence, facilitate workshops and produce traceable recommendations or implementation deliverables.
- Help clients establish and maintain governance policies, standards, charters, RACI matrices and decision records.
- Facilitate and coordinate client data owners, stewards, focal points and working groups.
- For client engagements, support maturity assessments, strategy execution and governance activation.
- Track engagement evidence and help clients track compliance, issues, exceptions, decisions and corrective actions.
- Transfer knowledge to client personnel and document decisions, assumptions, dependencies and handover requirements.
- Respect client governance: consultants advise, facilitate and deliver, but do not replace the client's accountable owners, approvers or governance bodies.
Recommended minimum requirements
Education: Bachelor's degree in information systems, data management, business, public administration or a related field.
Experience: Typically 4-8 years in data governance, information governance, risk, compliance or data management.
Core competencies: Governance frameworks, Policy drafting, Facilitation, RACI design, Issue management, Documentation and reporting
Preferred certifications
Preferred, but not mandatory:
- CDMP Associate or Practitioner, with Data Governance specialty preferred
- Prosci Change Practitioner
Focus areas
Governance frameworksPolicy draftingFacilitation
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