At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead data governance and analytics initiatives to enhance decision-making in education.
- Company: Department of Education focused on improving lives through learning and development.
- Benefits: Diverse workplace, career growth opportunities, and a chance to make a real impact.
- Other info: Encourages diversity and inclusion; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Why this job: Shape the future of education with cutting-edge technologies like AI.
- Qualifications: Expertise in data governance and analytics, strong leadership and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 112500 - 137500 $ per year.
This role drives the department’s effective use of data governance, data analytics, MDM, and emerging technologies including AI, to strengthen decision-making, service delivery, and outcomes across the Department of Education.
About the Department
The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives. It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for the future of the economy and society.
About the Branch
The Information Management Branch oversees how data is collected, organised, distributed, and utilised across schools, early childhood education, corporate offices, and the Department. Focus areas include the Data Governance Council and custodianship model, ensuring accountability and stewardship of data; advanced analytics; Business Intelligence (BI); Artificial Intelligence (AI), Master Data Management (MDM) for data integrity; and the use of data warehousing for effective data organisation. By collaborating with stakeholders, initiatives are aligned with departmental goals, fostering data-driven decision-making to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes for children and students.
About the Role
This role leads the Information Management Branch's business engagement function, ensuring business needs for data, analytics, reporting, MDM and data governance support are effectively understood, prioritised and progressed. The role provides senior strategic, technical and policy advice across data governance, analytics, and emerging technology priorities, and plans, coordinates and delivers projects to progress complex governance, data, analytics, MDM and emerging technology priorities and initiatives.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Demonstrated expertise in data governance, data analytics and emerging technologies, including AI, and the ability to apply this knowledge in complex organisational, strategic or policy contexts.
- Proven experience providing senior strategic, technical or policy advice across complex issues involving data governance, analytics, reporting, MDM or emerging technology initiatives.
- Strong leadership and delivery skills, with experience leading business engagement activities, shaping demand, managing competing priorities and progressing complex projects and initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships, influence decision-making and work collaboratively across business, technical and policy environments.
- Highly developed written communication skills, with experience preparing high-quality briefs, discussion papers, reports, governance papers and strategic advice for senior audiences.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex information, assess issues, evaluate options and provide clear, practical advice.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
As our ideal candidate, you will have:
- Relevant qualifications or demonstrated experience in data governance, data analytics, information management, technology, or a related field.
- Experience leading or delivering work related to data governance, data analytics, reporting, MDM, information management, or emerging technologies such as AI.
- Experience leading or supporting business engagement, intake, prioritisation or demand management activities in a data, analytics, governance or technology environment.
- Experience preparing high-quality written products, including briefs, discussion papers, reports, governance papers, strategic advice or implementation documentation.
- Experience planning, coordinating and delivering projects or initiatives across business, technical, governance or policy contexts.
- Experience working with stakeholders across diverse business and technical areas to support communication, collaboration and delivery of priority initiatives.
- Experience working in government, the public sector, or other complex and regulated environments is desirable.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence. Applications close 11:59pm on Tuesday 27 October 2026.
Senior Manager, Data and Analytics Governance in Melbourne employer: Department of Education
The Department of Education is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive work culture that prioritises integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement. As an Investigator in the Conduct and Integrity Division, you will have the opportunity to engage in meaningful work that directly impacts the education sector while benefiting from professional development and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Located in Victoria, this role provides a unique chance to contribute to a high-performing team dedicated to upholding the highest standards of conduct and service delivery.
