Role: Information and Knowledge Governance Senior Manager
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: Starting from £50,060p.a (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Let us introduce the role:
To lead the development and continuous improvement of knowledge and information governance arrangements across AWE, establishing the frameworks, standards and governance controls required to support effective creation, sharing, retention, reuse and exploitation of organisational knowledge and information assets.
Key Accountabilities:
- Accountable for establishing knowledge governance arrangements that enable knowledge capture, transfer, continuity, retention and reuse across AWE.
- Establish and maintain governance requirements for knowledge transfer, knowledge continuity and critical knowledge retention activities.
- Develop and maintain information governance requirements that support effective information ownership, accessibility, discoverability and reuse.
- Promote the effective governance of organisational knowledge and information assets, supporting informed decision-making and organisational learning.
- Develop and maintain knowledge and information governance frameworks, standards, guidance and supporting materials that support effective management, use and consistency of organisational knowledge and information across AWE.
- Support the governance of knowledge and information exploitation activities, encouraging effective use and value realisation of organisational knowledge and information assets.
- Contribute to the collective success of the KIDM Centre of Excellence through effective collaboration and integrated delivery across governance, compliance, capability and adoption functions.
- Ensure knowledge and information governance activities support applicable legal, regulatory, security and organisational requirements.
- Provide professional leadership within own area of expertise, influencing stakeholders, promoting good practice and supporting delivery of organisational objectives whilst role modelling AWE behaviours.
Essential Criteria:
- Understanding of knowledge and information governance within regulated environments.
- Understanding of legal, regulatory, security and organisational requirements relating to knowledge, information, records and data management.
- Degree level qualification in Knowledge Management, Information Management, Information Governance or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
- Experience leading or materially contributing to knowledge management, information governance or organisational learning activities in a complex environment.
- Experience developing governance frameworks, standards or guidance.
- Experience supporting knowledge sharing, knowledge retention or knowledge transfer initiatives.
- Experience engaging and influencing stakeholders across complex organisations.
- Experience operating within regulated or complex organisational environments.
- Practical understanding of enterprise digital information, collaboration and content management environments such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint or comparable platforms.
Work hard, be rewarded:
We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:
- 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.
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