This is a key leadership role at the heart of how NHS Greater Manchester uses data to improve care, services, and population health outcomes.
As Data Governance Manager, you will shape and ensure how we use data safely, ethically, and effectively across the system.
You will work with senior colleagues, partners, and programmes to enable high quality data use—supporting direct care, analytics, research and service transformation—while ensuring the right safeguards are in place. This is an opportunity to influence system-wide approaches, build capability and make governance a practical enabler rather than a barrier.
What we’re looking for
- We’re looking for someone who can combine expertise with pragmatism. You don’t need to have done this exact role before, but you should bring:
- Strong understanding of data governance, information governance or data protection
- Experience working with complex data environments or multi-partner systems
- Ability to translate regulation into practical, workable approaches
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions
- A collaborative approach, with a focus on enabling teams rather than blocking progress
What you’ll do
- Lead and develop a coherent, practical data governance approach across the Data Insight and Intelligence (DII) function
- Design and continuously improve frameworks, policies and ways of working that support safe and effective use of data
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, programme boards and delivery teams on governance, risk and best practice
- Ensure data use remains compliant, proportionate and well-managed, including UK GDPR, Data Protection Act and NHS requirements
- Oversee and support Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), helping teams to progress confidently and safely
- Enable the onboarding and use of new data sets and flows, working with internal teams and system partners
- Support governance of key platforms such as the Analytics and Data Science Platform (ADSP) and Secure Data Environment (SDE)
- Manage governance risks, audits and assurance processes, ensuring issues are addressed early and transparently
- Build understanding and confidence in data governance through engagement, support and training
NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.
Our NHS People Promise
Our NHS People Promise –the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.
Provide strategic leadership for data governance
Lead the development, implementation and assurance of data governance frameworks
Act as the senior subject matter expert for data governance
Provide executive oversight of compliance and assurance
Lead system-wide engagement and capability building, promoting a strong culture of data responsibility, representing NHS GM regionally and national
Full details in the Job Description & Person Specification
