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Data management

Data management involves the application of data governance policies, including the tools, procedures and methods that manage data access, sharing, dissemination and protection.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • explain the importance of data governance policies
  • explain how data management tools, procedures and methods relate to a specific project
2. Working

You can:

  • follow organisational data governance, including policies on data access, sharing, dissemination and protection
  • participate in or deliver data management across services or products
  • use appropriate data management tools, procedures and methods with some support
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • advocate for effective data governance and data management policies and guidelines within your team and across your organisation
  • monitor and improve data management practices in your team
  • help define, develop and support the use of data management tools, procedures and methods in compliance with data governance policies
4. Expert

You can:

  • champion and lead data management and governance processes within your team and across your organisation
  • define and lead on the implementation of data management responsibilities
  • define data management tools and develop training requirements to implement data governance processes effectively
  • enable continuous improvement of data management practices and compliance with data governance policies

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Associate data analystData analyst5Awareness
Data analystData analyst6Working
Senior data analystData analyst7Practitioner
Principal data analystData analyst8bExpert
Data governance managerData governance manager7Working
Lead data governance managerData governance manager8bPractitioner
Head of data governanceData governance manager8cExpert