Data Governance Analyst
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The Data Access and Information Privacy Branch is responsible for data standards, governance, and privacy within Alberta’s heath care system. This include ensuring that data driven decisions are supported by robust governance, privacy standards, and stakeholder collaboration. This helps to facilitate enhanced data access, collaboration, reduction in data duplication and innovation to ensure effective and efficient services across the government and health ecosystem to provide better services to Albertans.
Role Responsibilities
Are you excited about shaping the future of healthcare through data-driven innovation? Are you a motivated and collaborative data professional with passion for ensuring data integrity and governance? Do you possess a blend of technical, analytical, and soft skills? If this sounds like you, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
Reporting to the Manager of Data Governance, the Data Governance Analyst is responsible for supporting the implementation of the Health Analytics Roadmap where data will be utilized for the benefit of all Albertans through a coordinated and systematic approach to managing and governing data.
A critical responsibility of the Data Governance Analyst is to coordinate with various internal and external stakeholders to understand the data access landscape and develop governance and policy instruments that will enhance the ability for data access with internal and external stakeholders. This position is skilled in anticipating, identifying, and responding to diverse and complex data access needs and issues across the healthcare ecosystem, while also aligning with other areas of the branch, the division, and Department of Health more broadly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to establish effective data governance with processes to support data integration and access across the healthcare ecosystem.
- Prepare written documentation relating to data governance and policy instruments, provide strategic recommendations, summarizing complex information for a range of stakeholders.
- Establish effective working relationships and collaborate with various stakeholders to support data governance solutions, implement policy instruments and governance standards.
- Drive continuous improvement efforts; monitor compliance with data governance policies through performance metrics, identify data risks, and define process areas for review.
- Provide training and contribute to the development and implementation of strategies to promote data governance awareness.
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