Senior Data Governance Specialist

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🕒 2 days ago

🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Career Directions Ltd

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2003

👥 HR Tech

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

HR Tech • Consulting • Recruitment

Career Directions Ltd. is a proactive Human Resource Management consultancy firm specializing in Strategic Labour Force Outsourcing, Recruitment, Training, Payroll Processing, and Total Human Resource Management. Established in 2003, it serves as a one-stop shop for HR-related queries and support in and around East Africa. The company aims to champion best practices in Human Resource while addressing worker needs to achieve optimum productivity and profitability, all the while contributing to the success of its partners and improving community lives. Its core values include professionalism, respect, passion, and integrity.

📋 Description

• Implement and operationalise Data and Information Governance frameworks, policies and processes • Support governance forums, working groups, reporting and action tracking • Translate governance requirements into practical roles, processes, SOPs and RACI frameworks • Define and operationalise data ownership, information ownership and stewardship • Strengthen data quality, metadata, data catalogue, classification, retention, access and information protection practices • Extend governance across unstructured information, including documents, records, emails, collaboration platforms and knowledge assets • Work with Legal, Information Security, IT and business teams to ensure effective governance and information protection • Drive change management, adoption, training and awareness across technical and non-technical teams • Prepare executive presentations, governance reports and stakeholder communications • Identify practical AI-enabled governance opportunities, including automated classification, metadata enrichment, information discovery, quality monitoring, risk identification and workflow automation • Ensure appropriate human oversight, accountability and responsible AI use in governance activities • Identify blockers, recommend pragmatic solutions and independently drive initiatives through to completion • Submit monthly timesheet-based reports

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level experience designing, implementing and operationalising enterprise Data and Information Governance frameworks • Strong experience in Data Governance and Information Governance, covering both structured and unstructured information • Practical experience in information protection, data classification, retention, access and data/information sharing • Strong understanding of data quality, metadata, data catalogues, ownership and stewardship • Experience with records and content governance, including documents, emails and collaboration platforms • Practical understanding of AI applications in Data and Information Governance • Proven change management and governance adoption experience within complex organisations • Experience developing governance policies, SOPs, RACI matrices, lifecycle processes and operating models • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage senior, technical and non-technical stakeholders • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, including strong Microsoft PowerPoint capability • Self-driven, analytical and proactive, with strong problem-solving skills, resilience, adaptability and the ability to work independently in a complex international environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Offshore / Remote Delivery • Potential extension through December 2027, subject to performance and business requirements