Project Manager - Data Governance

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Director of Data Governance to organize program activities and support execution across major initiative priorities.
• Build and maintain comprehensive project schedules, key milestones, and deliverable tracking to keep workstreams on target.
• Partner with stakeholders across academic, business, and operational areas to drive alignment and maintain momentum on shared objectives.
• Lead meetings, workshops, and governance sessions by setting agendas, capturing outcomes, and following up on next steps.
• Prepare and maintain clear project records, including status updates, action registers, risk logs, and documented decisions.
• Identify obstacles, interdependencies, and potential risks early, then elevate critical issues to appropriate leaders for resolution.
• Cookordinate efforts tied to governance standards, data definitions, classification approaches, policy development, and stewardship models.
• Support program communications and change readiness activities as the data governance framework expands across the organization.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience leading project management efforts, ideally within large-scale or enterprise initiatives.
• Proven success managing cross-functional projects that involve multiple stakeholder groups and competing priorities.
• Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams.
• Experience producing structured project documentation, reporting, and follow-up materials in a formal project environment.
• Familiarity with data governance, enterprise data management, or related data-focused programs is preferred.
• Experience working in decentralized or matrixed organizations is advantageous.
• Knowledge of project delivery practices and tools such as Agile, Scrum, Atlassian Jira, or comparable project management methods.
• PMP certification is a plus.

Qualifications

Knowledge of project delivery practices and tools such as Agile, Scrum, Atlassian Jira, or comparable project management methods.

Skills

• Project Management
• Data Governance
• Enterprise Data Management
• Stewardship Models
• Agile, Scrum, Jira

Benefits

Health, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

Pay

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Schedule

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