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News UK is a phenomenal company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever growing organisation with a real passion for quality content and storytelling. Our newspapers and digital products include some of the most powerful media brands in the world, reaching over 30 million people each month. Our brands include national newspapers - The Sun, The Times, and The Sunday Times, and the Wireless Group, comprising talkSPORT, talkRADIO, and Virgin Radio and several regional radio stations.
The Data Hub is a new team with people, data and insight at its heart. Consisting of four specialist areas - data strategy, data analytics, customer insight and data governance - the Data Hub is driven by passionate and trusted experts responsible for creating industry leading solutions by attracting and developing the best talent.
About the Data Governance team
The Data Governance team is responsible for implementing a governance framework to support efficient, compliant and ethical processing of data to enable risk aware decision making. We help with all strategic and tactical Data Hub initiatives, assist Technology to implement the governance framework and help the business end users understand their governance responsibilities when planning to use customer data assets.
About you and the role
We are seeking an experienced Junior Data Governance Analyst, who will be focused on:
- Understanding of industry standard data governance framework/standard
- Understanding of working in the Data Governance domain, especially around transparency, lineage, quality, risk management, information security and compliance areas
- You should be comfortable analysing and interpreting multiple data sets, doing gap analyses, interviewing various stakeholders, documenting findings and providing recommendations for best practice solutions in order to be successful in this role
- Build of new processes and documenting assisting or proposed processes to support and automate internal Data Governance initiatives
- Assisting the Data Governance Manager with facilitating the teams ceremonies including stand ups, backlog refinement sessions and retros and any other ceremonies that are deemed necessary
- Assisting with the management of the backlog and ticketing system
- Ensuring successful delivery of initiatives through development and management of overall project plan, documentation and schedule
- Familiarity with project tools such as Confluence and Airtable
- Assist with internal governance reviews
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder engagement experience
- Ability to tailor approach to communication, analysis and team activities according to the given context
- Understanding of DPA2018, GDPR, PECR, CCPA requirements
- Assist with identifying risks and blockers to the way data is being processed and communicating these findings in a clear and consistent manner
- Identifying the best way to capture and document the requirements and present them using non-technical jargon
- Assist with implementing the capabilities according to the roadmap
- Support with the application of appropriate project methodologies to build collaborative, cross-functional teams delivering value to the business where appropriate
- Be knowledgeable around Data Governance initiatives through continuous learning and training (seminars, webinars etc.)
- Seek to improve and be a positive influence on the team and other colleagues
Life at News
At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
- 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
