Data Management Consultant

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**Our client has an urgent requirement for a Data Management Consultant (Data Strategy / Data Economy)**

SService Alberta (Data Unit) has recently developed the GoA Data Strategy.

The strategy requires evolving and a resources to support this effort. The resource will be required to:

- Collaborate with the Data Team, as well as with others in the division and across GoA to identify and analyze potential data economy solutions;
- Prepare briefing notes, meeting minutes, and other documents;
- Draft detailed data economy documents to expand the Data Strategy and Value Realization Framework;
- Prepare presentations for engagement with stakeholders, steering committees, project groups and other stakeholders;
- Coordinate with stakeholders to populate key foundational elements into data economy components;
- Align the data economy components to the Data Strategy and Value Realization Framework throughout development and stakeholder engagements;
- Manage tasks and action items and follow up and escalate as required;
- Provide support by collecting and compiling information from external stakeholders, departments, and Service Alberta teams;
- Coordinate approvals and sign-offs; and
- Maintain engagement, meeting, and opportunity trackers.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

The resource will be required to:

- Collaborate with the Data Team, as well as with others in the division and across GoA to identify and analyze potential data economy solutions;
- Prepare briefing notes, meeting minutes, and other documents;
- Draft detailed data economy documents to expand the Data Strategy and Value Realization Framework;
- Prepare presentations for engagement with stakeholders, steering committees, project groups and other stakeholders;
- Coordinate with stakeholders to populate key foundational elements into data economy components;
- Align the data economy components to the Data Strategy and Value Realization Framework throughout development and stakeholder engagements;
- Manage tasks and action items and follow up and escalate as required;
- Provide support by collecting and compiling information from external stakeholders, departments, and Service Alberta teams;
- Coordinate approvals and sign-offs; and
- Maintain engagement, meeting, and opportunity trackers.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
- Can span activities related to information management and technology strategic planning, project definition, program communication, providing leadership to project teams, facilitating strategic partnerships with external stakeholders, conducting business process reengineering activities and facilitating executive discussions on strategic matters.
- Works with Senior and Executive Management in the Ministry to:

- Identify and advance information management and technology strategies that advance and/or support our core business in strategic areas.
- Facilitate collaboration of public sector, private industry, and other partners to identify and advance opportunities to improve existing services and/or identify, develop and advance opportunities for new and innovative information management and technology related services.
- Facilitate and manage the challenges associated with innovation and change.

MANDATORY SKILLS
- Proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following: (6+ years)
- University graduation in Finance, Business, Science, Public Administration or a related discipline and 2-yr related experience;
OR
- 2-yr diploma in Business, Science, Public Administration, Law or a related discipline and 4-yr related experience.

OR
- 1-yr certificate in Business, Science, Public Administration, Law or a related discipline and 5-yr related experience.

OR
- 6-yr related experience
- Experience in the Data Economics, including in investigating data value in relation to data sharing, de-identification, metadata, data quality, ethics, synthetic data, data literacy, data linkage and data integration (5+ years)
- Experience with either Information Governance or records management and information management (5+ years)
- Experience in project management (5+ years)
- Experience providing consultation and support to clients at all levels of an organization (5+ years)
- Experience in the development and implementation of data economy standards, processes, and mechanisms to enable the ministry to manage information through its entire lifecycle (5+ years)
- Resource must have own computer equipment and be comfortable using it for completion of work required by this