Data Governance Consultant

Salary: £44,000 - 84,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering Data Governance frameworks or Data Ownership/Data Stewardship models.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end data lifecycle.
• Experience translating governance policies into operational processes.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience supporting organisational change and driving adoption of new governance practices.
• Previous Data Governance experience within a UK Central Government department.
• Must have Public Sector experience.

Responsibilities:

• Support the identification, onboarding, and enablement of Data Owner and Data Steward roles.
• Facilitate conceptual data model workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Embed data ownership principles across the data lifecycle to improve accountability and decision-making.
• Support the development of a Data Governance Knowledge Hub, providing a central source of governance guidance, standards, and best practice.
• Strengthen collaboration between central data management functions and business teams to encourage consistent governance across the organisation.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the organisations Data Ownership Model and wider governance framework.
• Support change and adoption activities to ensure new governance practices are successfully embedded.

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Support

More:

We are a leading consultancy delivering a major data transformation programme within a UK Central Government organisation. This is a 9-month fixed-term contract based in Manchester, offering a salary of £60,000 per annum plus benefits. You will join a collaborative consultancy environment and play a key role in establishing enterprise-wide data governance, improving data ownership, and supporting strategic transformation across a complex public sector environment.

last updated 33 week of 2026