Job Description
Manager, Data Governance and Partnerships
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Manager, Data Governance & Partnerships
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Role: Manager, Data Governance & Partnerships
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Reporting to: Head of Business Intelligence & Analytics
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Location: Hawthorn, Melbourne
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Division: Strategy & Service Design
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Team: Individual contributor / cross-functional leadership
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The Company
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Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN) is seeking a Manager, Data Governance & Partnerships to establish and lead its data governance function at a genuinely exciting point in the organisation's evolution.
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EMPHN is transforming how it commissions health services while developing a sophisticated linked healthcare data environment covering approximately 1.8 million people. With data governance currently operating across the organisation in a piecemeal way, this newly created role will bring the function together and establish the standards, processes and partnerships that will underpin EMPHN's future data capability.
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The Prospect
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Reporting to the Head of Business Intelligence & Analytics, you will sit within the Strategy & Service Design division and work across the organisation to establish practical, effective data governance.
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This is a hands-on governance role. You will be expected to get into the detail of data schemas, collection processes, data sharing arrangements, controls and operational workflows, while simultaneously developing the broader governance framework.
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You won't be managing a large team. In fact, there are no direct reports but scope to grow a team in the future.
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Instead, your influence will come through your ability to work across clinicians, commissioners, program teams, executives, technology and external partners to make governance work in practice.
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What You'll be Responsible For
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Build the governance function, Establish EMPHN's enterprise data governance framework, standards, policies, processes and controls from the ground up.
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Own data sharing & partnerships, Own EMPHN's Data Sharing Agreement portfolio and establish effective governance across general practices, Outcome Health, research and data linkage partners.
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Lead privacy, compliance & risk, Lead privacy, regulatory, information security, audit and data lifecycle requirements across EMPHN's data environment.
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Own departmental data reporting, Lead mandatory Department of Health, Disability and Ageing reporting, including PIP QI, UP-MDS and GP-MDS, ensuring data is accurate, compliant and delivered on time.
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What We're Looking For
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You'll likely come from a background in data governance, data management, information governance, privacy, data stewardship or a closely related discipline, with demonstrated experience establishing governance frameworks in complex environments.
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More importantly, you'll be comfortable operating where the answer isn't already written.
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You'll need to be able to:
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Build a governance function from the ground up.
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Translate regulatory, contractual and privacy obligations into practical processes.
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Work comfortably with technical data concepts and schemas.
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Navigate complex stakeholder environments without relying on formal authority.
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Build relationships across clinical, operational, technology and executive teams.
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Balance strategic thinking with hands‐on delivery.
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Bring structure to an evolving and immature governance environment.
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Your value will come from translating legal, contractual and regulatory requirements into governance that people can actually use.
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The EMPHN employee proposition
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Alongside genuine population-level impact, EMPHN offers:
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13 weeks paid parental leave after six months' service.
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Two work-life balance days each year.
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Three additional paid days over Christmas.
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Purchased leave.
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Not-for-profit salary packaging benefits.
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Paid study leave.
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First Peoples Cultural Leave.
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Gender Aff...?
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📌 Manager, Data Governance And Partnerships (Victoria)
🏢 Quinn Allan
📍 Victoria