Chief Data Officer - DfE - SCS2

The key responsibilities of the role are:

• Strategic data planning: Leading strategic data transformation across the education and care sectors, ensuring that our data strategy supports effective public service delivery including the departmental mission of Opportunity for all, and ensuring alignment with government-wide data standards.
• Enterprise Data Leadership and AI: Provide strategic oversight of the Department's data architecture to ensure it is robust, secure, interoperable, and scalable ensuring the Department's data architecture supports its strategy, innovation, data-sharing and AI objectives.
• Data Governance Leadership: Drive excellent data governance, ensuring an appropriate level of risk tolerance. Ensure compliance with relevant data protection, privacy, security, and transparency regulations such as GDPR.
• Data Risk Management: Create an environment where risk standards, policies and processes are valued, enabling data to be used and shared while protected.
• Data Innovation: work with Ministers and policy and delivery officials to identify and implement innovations in how data can support policymaking and drive delivery of outcomes for children and adult learners, and represent the Department in cross-government data initiatives and collaborate with other departments to share best practices and drive consistency.
• Data Capability Building: Ensure the Department has the specialist data skills it needs and champion a culture of data literacy and evidence-based decision-making across the Department.