DATA GOVERNANCE MANAGER - 71392

Executive Service

This position will work primarily from a home residence pursuant to the Department's Alternative Workplace Solutions (AWS) policy. Multiple in-person days per month may be required at the office address listed below or at other satellite locations in the state, as business need requires: Tennessee Department of Education Andrew Johnson Tower 710 James Robertson Parkway Nashville, TN 37243

For more information, visit the link below:
https://www.tn.gov/education/career-opportunities.html

Who we are and what we do:

Department of Education Vision: We will set all students on a path to success.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Governance

1. Provide strategic oversight and direction for the TDOE Data Governance Program, ensuring alignment with departmental and state-wide data priorities.
2. Develop and execute the departments annual data governance plan, establishing clear priorities, implementation timelines, and measurable outcomes.
3. Lead biweekly Data Collab meetings with departmental data leads to enhance cross-functional collaboration, formalize policies and processes, and optimize departmental data structures.
4. Direct department-wide data documentation initiatives, ensuring comprehensive internal technical documentation and user-friendly external data guides for publicly released datasets.
5. Spearhead efforts to streamline academics legislatively mandated reporting by proactively identifying recurring data needs, developing requirements for dashboards, and reducing ad-hoc data requests.
6. Oversee and facilitate cross-functional working groups to address and resolve complex data governance challenges, including coordination, decision-making, leadership engagement, and implementation follow-up.
7. Support department-wide transition efforts from EIS to TEDS data systems, providing guidance and support to internal users.

Data Request Fulfillment

1. Gain deep expertise in department data systems by actively contributing to data requests through querying, validation, and quality assurance checks.
2. Process internal and external data requests for mandated reports, legislative requests, and program area requests.
3. Read and interpret technical documentation, including law, rule, policy, and process plans.
4. Establish and maintain detailed documentation on data cleaning protocols and relevant business rules.
5. Provide other data support to program teams across the department as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience: Possession of a master's degree in education, education administration or other related field and substantial educational work experience (5 or more years) including 3 years of education administration or supervisory work.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.