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Governance and assurance

Governance and assurance involves ensuring appropriate and proportionate governance and assurance is in place to support delivery.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • explain why governance and assurance is important
  • follow governance and assurance processes, under supervision
2. Working

You can:

  • explain how governance and assurance works
  • follow appropriate governance and assurance processes
  • contribute to deciding what governance and assurance is required for a product or service
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • develop appropriate governance and assurance processes
  • identify and recommend improvements to governance and assurance processes
  • support others in following or applying governance and assurance processes
4. Expert

You can:

  • ensure appropriate and proportionate governance and assurance is in place and is continuously improved, aligned to organisational and government needs
  • guide teams through governance and assurance processes, such as service assessments, to ensure standards are met
  • share the team's governance and assurance processes so stakeholders trust them to deliver value in a sustainable way

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

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Digital portfolio analystDigital portfolio manager5Awareness
Digital portfolio managerDigital portfolio manager6Working
Senior digital portfolio managerDigital portfolio manager8aPractitioner
Head of digital portfolioDigital portfolio manager8cPractitioner
Associate network architectNetwork architect6Awareness
Network architectNetwork architect7Practitioner
Lead network architectNetwork architect8aExpert
Service ownerService owner8bExpert
Senior service ownerService owner8cExpert