Planning Manager (Data Governance)

About the Role
As a Planning Manager (Data Governance) at Queen Mary, University of London, you'll lead initiatives to enhance data quality, integrity, and usability across the organisation. Collaborating with stakeholders, you'll develop and implement data governance policies, prioritise improvements, and establish automated data quality reporting systems. Your leadership will help drive better decision-making and operational efficiency across the organisation. In addition to your data governance role, you'll oversee a team managing Statutory Returns to regulatory agencies. Balancing strategic oversight and operational excellence, you'll ensure regulatory compliance while fostering a culture of continuous improvement in data processes.

About You
You will have demonstrable experience in data governance and management, with a wealth of knowledge to bring to the table. You will have demonstrable experience of developing and implementing data governance policies, with an understanding of regulations such as GDPR, and an interest managing statutory returns in higher education. You will have excellent leadership and management skills and be comfortable in working collaboratively with others. As this role is multi-faceted (covering both data governance and statutory returns) you will be a self-starter who is keen on personal development and learning new things.

About the Department
The Strategic Planning Office (SPO) supports the University in using data and information to drive improved performance and decision making. We aim to support the University’s planning activities and to provide internal and external customers with management information that is reliable and timely. As one of the UK’s foremost research-intensive universities, we are constantly responding to changes in the sector and working collaboratively across the University to expand our data capacity and data literacy.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

 Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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