Data & Research Governance Manager - 6475

Job Title: Data & Research Governance Manager

Salary: £34,500 - £44,850 FTE (£27,600 - £35,880 pro rata)

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2-3 days a week in Cambridge)

Contract: Permanent, Part time (28 hours per week)

Are you ready to manage the strategic coordination and delivery of complex, high-value research programmes across internal teams and external research partners?

Join us as our Data and Research Governance Manager, where your expertise will help ensure research outputs are effectively translated into business impact. We are looking for an individual to ensure best practice in programme management is applied to English research programmes involving external partners, which supports the implementation of the English strategic aim to break into new segments with innovative new products and services backed.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As our Data & Research Governance Manager, you'll:

• Create, maintain, and manage the processes and procedures relating to identifying and tracking opportunities for operationalisation of research outputs
• Ensure record keeping and providing audit capability for processes and activities.
• Ensure processes are in place to enable ongoing GDPR compliance for all shared research data, e.g. regulating and monitoring data anonymisation and minimisation steps
• Act as a key contributor to the drafting of policies and agreements related to the management of the Cambridge English-ALTA Research Programme and other similar programmes
• Progress tracking and reporting of technology transfer activities and outcomes to governing bodies within CUP&A.

About you

You will have some experience of project or programme management, and some knowledge or interest in acquiring knowledge of language teaching, learning, and assessment, as well as knowledge of machine learning and other aspects of artificial intelligence and/or computer science. You combine strong stakeholder management skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.

You'll bring:

• Ability to deal with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) effectively
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent planning, co-ordination, prioritisation, and decision-making skills
• Experience of working in a busy and complex professional environment
• Experience of working with data and the sharing of data across organisations, and an understanding of GDPR

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 25th October. Interviews are scheduled to take place on week commencing 27th October.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.