Data Governance

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• Ensure implementation of information and record management policies and standard practices.
• Ensure effective controls are in place for internal delegation, audit and control relating to information and records management.
• Assess and manage risks around the use of information.
• Provide reports on the consolidated status of information controls to inform effective decision-making.
• Recommend remediation actions as required.
• Ensure that information is presented effectively.

• Implement guidelines, laws, statutes and regulations on appropriate handling of data at various stages in their life cycle.
• Monitor compliance with data policies.
• Understand the implications of information, both internal and external, that can be mined from business systems and elsewhere.
• Make decisions based on that information, including the need to make changes to the systems.
• Review new change proposals and provide specialist advice on information and records management, including advice on and promotion of collaborative working and assessment and management of information-related risk.
• Create and maintain an inventory of information assets, which are subject to relevant legislations.
• Prepare and review the periodic notification of registration details and submit them to the relevant regulatory authorities.
• Ensure that formal information access requests and complaints are dealt with according to approved procedures.
• Contribute to development of policy, standards and procedures for compliance with relevant legislation.

• Develop organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for information and records management ensuring that uniformly recognised and accepted data definitions are developed and applied throughout the organisation.
• Ensure that the business processes and information required to support the organisation are defined, and devise appropriate processes and data architectures.
• Identify the impact of any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations on the organisation’s use of information and develop strategies for compliance.
• Lead and plan activities to communicate and implement information management strategies.
• Coordinate information resources to meet specific business objectives whilst maintaining the principles of professional standards, accountability, openness, equality, diversity and clarity of purpose.
• Implement systems and controls to measure performance and manage risk.
• Specify at a strategic level the business functions and data subjects needed to support future business, thereby enabling the development of an Information Architecture.