(640) Information Governance Specialist - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Conduct an assessment on data governance and security maturity levels within the SARB Group against best practices.
• Develop standards, guidelines, processes and procedures for data governance and security within the SARB Group.
• Develop and promote data governance and security awareness across the organisation to ensure the appropriate usage of business information.
• Contribute towards the development of the SARB data strategy and monitor the data strategy progress.
• Define data governance and security measurement and metrics to support reliable decision-making and appropriate data usage.
• Monitor, measure and report on the data stewardship levels to ensure the appropriate usage of data.
• Enable the improvement of data governance and security capability by developing relevant stakeholders in all aspects of data governance and security.
• Play an oversight role in the remediation of data governance and security issues as well as  in the development of a data security management plan.
• Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data governance and security awareness across the organisation and support reliable decision-making and appropriate data usage.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree in either Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or an equivalent qualification;
• five to eight years’ experience in the field of data management; and
• relevant data governance and security certification (e.g. CDMP Associate) will be an added advantage.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:
• enterprise information management (EIM) strategy;
• EIM legislation and governance, risk and compliance;
• information governance;
• EIM reporting;
• industry, organisational and business awareness; and
• continued learning and/or professional development.