Data Governance Analyst

Cambridge University Press & Assessment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job description

• Job Title: Data Governance Analyst
• Salary: £28,800 – £37,425
• Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid (expectation of 2 days per week in the office)
• Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)

Support our data and reporting environment by ensuring accuracy, consistency, and structure across our business intelligence resources. This is a great opportunity for someone highly organised, process-driven, and keen to make a difference in how data is managed and used.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As a Data Governance Analyst, you'll support the effective management and quality of our data and reporting landscape, enabling teams to make better-informed decisions and work more efficiently.

You'll play a key part in documenting data processes, improving visibility of reports and data sources, and supporting governance best practices across our Assessment Operations function. Your contributions will help ensure that our business intelligence resources are accurate, accessible, and structured in a way that enables confident and consistent reporting.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining and documenting BI data assets to ensure they are accurate, up to date, and aligned with governance standards.
• Supporting the development of a centralised data catalogue to improve visibility and understanding of available data and reports.
• Ensuring data reliability by following clear validation processes and supporting compliance with data quality expectations.
• Supporting deployment, version control, and change tracking of reports and dashboards.
• Helping to optimise the performance and usability of reports and dashboards to enhance the user experience.
• Collaborating with teams across the business to define and document standardised data and reporting practices.
• Providing basic training and guidance to colleagues to improve data literacy, documentation use, and adoption of good governance practices.

About you

You are a well-organised, detail-oriented individual who is confident following structured processes and enjoys keeping things running smoothly. You may have experience in an administrative, operational, or information management role—especially where documentation, data accuracy, or process improvement was key. You don't need to be an expert in data tools, but you should be proactive, adaptable, and interested in how structured information supports business operations.

Key Qualities:

• Strong organizational, documentation, and attention to detail, ensuring efficient workflows.
• Effective communicator, comfortable collaborating across teams and following structured processes.
• Experience with structured data, compliance, or business reporting is a plus.
• Proactive and adaptable, with a learning mindset and a passion for optimizing information management.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Group personal pension scheme.
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary.
• Green travel schemes.

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 29^th April 2025, although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 5^th May 2025.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.