Information Management Specialist

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Take responsibility for business-as-usual (BAU) resource planning and management to ensure effective delivery and business continuity by balancing demand and supply across projects.
• Develop secure lifecycle management, storage and processing pipelines for national statistical assets by coordinating and integrating information management practices and business processes.
• Develop standards, frameworks, guidelines, processes and procedures for the various data management capabilities within the department, the economic statistics domain and the National Statistical System (NSS).
• Drive the implementation of data management standards, data definitions and access rules to ensure consistent application across the department, the economic statistics domain and the NSS.
• Establish data management indicators to monitor and track logged data- and economic statistics-related issues.
• Manage and coordinate the overall data management maturity assessment within the department, the economic statistics domain and the NSS.
• Identify deliverables, resource and skills requirements, and data-related technologies for data management frameworks and standards to meet business demands.
• Provide input into the development of business continuity and recovery plans for implementation during outages and disasters.
• Partner closely with the compilers of related frameworks and standards, including GSIM, GSBPM, SASQAF and DMBOK, to ensure alignment with relevant statistical and data management related standards and practices.
• Provide integrated reporting on enterprise information management (EIM) operations, including governance structures, projects, demand management and BAU activities.
• Manage the performance and development of direct reports and support the career development of employees in the unit.

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• at least an honours degree (NQF level 8) in computer engineering, computer science, informatics, management information systems or a related field;
• a relevant data management certification, such as Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) Practitioner certification;
• at least eight to ten years’ relevant experience in data and information management; and
• at least two to three years’ experience in supervising or managing a team.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge and skill in:

  • industry, organisational and business awareness;
  • continuous learning and/or professional development;
  • quality assurance;
  • continuous improvement;
  • business continuity planning;
  • information management strategy;
  • enterprise information management legislation, governance, risk and compliance;
  • enterprise information reporting;
  • enterprise information management project management;
  • change management;
  • information management;
  • enterprise information management skills development; and
  • business intelligence software such as MicroStrategy, Pyramid, OBISS, MicroSoft Power BI.