$170k–$190k + Super
Sydney | Hybrid WFH
A key opportunity to establish and lead a modern enterprise data governance function within a purpose-driven not-for-profit organisation.
This role is focused on building strong governance frameworks, defining data ownership, and ensuring data is trusted, secure, and used responsibly across the business.
If you’re passionate about data governance, stakeholder engagement, and driving organisation-wide data maturity—this is an impactful role.
What you’ll do
- Establish and lead the enterprise data governance framework, policies, and standards
- Define data ownership, stewardship, and accountability models across business units
- Chair governance forums and drive decision-making across stakeholders
- Oversee data quality standards, metrics, and remediation processes
- Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements
- Partner with technology teams to embed governance through platforms and tooling
- Develop data definitions, glossaries, and metadata standards
- Drive data literacy and governance adoption across the organisation
- Provide oversight on responsible data use in reporting, analytics, and AI
- Monitor governance maturity, risks, and performance
- Strong experience in data governance or data management roles
- Proven ability to operate across both business and technical stakeholders
- Deep understanding of data ownership, quality, privacy, and compliance
- Experience establishing governance frameworks and decision forums
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Ability to work at both strategic and operational levels
- Experience in regulated or complex environments
- Exposure to financial or operational reporting environments
- Knowledge of governance tools (catalogues, lineage, metadata)
- Familiarity with frameworks (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, privacy or risk standards)
- Exposure to AI governance or responsible data practices
