Data Governance Specialist

Job Description
We are seeking a Data Governance Specialist for a 10-month contract that can work remotely from anywhere within the U.S.  
 
This role will encompass the creation of a Data Governance operationalizing plan and governing the existing data while expanding to additional departments (and their data) and all associated data governance aspects.  This will require implementing data governance and furthering that support to the needs and requirements of multiple departments along with educating the internal resources across the divisions on the need for and value of data governance. 
This project will be combining data from the data stores with data from other teams. There will be collaboration with database experts, ETL programmers, business and data analysts, and other technical experts.  
There are multiple steps to this deliverable including finalizing and implementing the draft Data Governance plan with the Data Governance workstream team with recommendations on how you can best support the team in data governance.  This plan should include recommendations related to the standard best practice components of data governance, including:
Decision-making
Data ownership/stewardship
Roles/responsibilities
Key policies/procedures
Sustainability
Data Quality
Data Access
Data Security
Data Privacy, including governing data protection laws 
Data Sharing Agreements
Provide recommendations on how Data Governance can assist the Project Manager with coordinating the technical workstreams with the governance and management streams
 Offer recommendations on how Data Governance can provide support to other agency partners and internal business partners to assist with the integration of technology, management, and governance decisions.
Recommendations on how best to incorporate data governance into the ongoing technology decisions being made regularly.
Recommendations for Data Sharing Agreements, after reviewing current plans and documents in place.
Provide On-the-job training to data governance workstream members