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Data Transformation Programme (DTP) Data Manager

Bristol

Salary £42,001 - £44,151 pa

Fixed term for 12 months

 

About us

 

The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England – we regulate higher education on behalf of all students.  Our mission is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.

 

We’re proud of our people, our culture, and the benefits we offer. At the OfS we want to create a welcoming and engaging working environment which is free from discrimination.

We’re looking for skilled, committed people who care about students and their experience of higher education. Join us and you’ll be part of an energetic, forward-looking organisation with high ambitions and big opportunities for our people.

 

The OfS has committed to deliver a significant and comprehensive data transformation programme (DTP), designed to establish a robust approach to modernising the use and management of all data, to inform decision making and support our regulatory activity.  

Job description

About the role

 

The DTP Data Manager will deliver various projects and activities related to the principles and practices of data governance, including co-ordinating with data owners to ensure that data resources are effectively managed through practical data governance solutions and that risks to their security or appropriate onward use are mitigated. 

Key responsibilities include:  

• Facilitating the operational implementation of the policies, practices and procedures that comprise the OfS’s data governance framework, aligned to the functionality of a more modern OfS technology stack. 
• Cataloguing and monitoring data assets that are essential to the OfS’s operations, including assigning ownership, managing metadata and incorporation of assets into the OfS data model, and implementing relevant safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of the assets. 
• Embedding compliance with the data governance framework into operational analytical and reporting processes, and supporting colleagues to do the same. 
• Developing and maintaining processes to log, triage and document data quality and data integrity issues across the data life cycle, including advising decision makers on the values and risks associated with the data asset and its uses.  

 

Person specification

About you

 

The key person attributes to fulfil this role are:   

• Knowledge of best practice in data governance across a large and complex data model, and ability to develop principles, practices and policies that operate an effective data governance framework. 
• Experience of implementing and following data governance practices and policies. 
• Experience of maintaining data assets and associated documentation for their monitoring and security. 
• Ability to maintain a comprehensive and sophisticated knowledge of the OfS’s data and technology. 
• Ability to communicate policies and processes to internal and external technical and non-technical audiences.

 

This is an agile working role, which means the role-holder will be expected to operate and work flexibly across different activities commensurate with this pay band, including undertaking project work to support different components of the DTP or of the OfS’s data functions.

 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £42,001, Office for Students contributes £11,382 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

Working for us

 

The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.

 

We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two or three days in a typical week.

 

To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part time working, apply to this role.

 

Closing date for applications: 23 April 2024

Interviews: From 6 May 2024

 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.