Enterprise Data Governance Consultant

Intone Inc; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Intone Inc in Nashville, TN is seeking an Enterprise Data Governance Consultant on a hybrid basis for 9+ months to support public-sector agencies.

The role emphasizes AI governance, change management, training, and stakeholder engagement to ensure compliant, trusted data use across agency operations.

The consultant will translate complex governance concepts for executives and staff, contribute to documentation, roadmaps, and audits, and help establish governance metrics and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data governance initiatives across complex organizations.
• Ability to translate governance concepts into actionable guidance.
• Experience with policy, risk, and compliance in data environments.

Responsibilities

• Support agency awareness of AI governance concepts, including ethical, transparent, explainable, accountable, and human-reviewed use of data and AI-enabled systems
• Help document AI-related data use cases, data sources, stewardship responsibilities, risk considerations, and governance checkpoints
• Coordinate with privacy, security, legal, records, and compliance stakeholders when governance activities involve sensitive, confidential, regulated, or high-risk data
• Facilitate agency use of AI technologies to automate and streamline data governance practices and artifacts
• Reinforce requirements for data classification, access management, data minimization, authorized use, retention, and secure data sharing
• Support documentation of data-related risks, issues, policy exceptions, remediation actions, and audit evidence
• Promote appropriate safeguards for protected or regulated data, including HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS, IRS Pub. 1075, PCI, FTI, and PII when relevant to agency operations
• Support agency data governance planning, including charters, roadmaps, operating models, stakeholder maps, and implementation plans
• Assist agencies in defining data governance scope, ownership, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and engagement processes
• Help identify agency value-based business needs, data pain points, data quality risks, and opportunities for improved data sharing and reuse
• Support agency maturity assessments and develop practical work plans to close governance gaps
• Translate technical data governance concepts into plain-language guidance suitable for executives, business program staff, data stewards, and operational teams
• Promote consistent use of Tennessee's eight core data governance elements: Organization, Policies, Procedures, Standards/Definitions, Architecture, Data Admin/Controls, Metrics/Reporting, and Audits
• Help agencies complete governance artifacts such as RACI charts, business glossaries, data dictionaries, data inventories, data issue logs, policy/procedure mappings, stewardship plans, and governance roadmaps
• Support documentation of data domains, data owners, data stewards, business definitions, data flows, data quality rules, risks, controls, and metrics
• Assist agencies with implementation activities and evidence gathering for audit readiness
• Coordinate with the Data Governance Analyst on catalog, metadata, data classification, lineage, and related documentation needs
• Support agency use of governance metrics and maturity indicators to monitor progress and demonstrate business value
• Maintain organized repositories of governance artifacts, meeting records, training materials, communications, and implementation evidence
• Plan, facilitate, and document agency data governance meetings, workshops, steering committee sessions, and stewardship working groups
• Prepare agendas, meeting materials, decision logs, action item trackers, issue logs, and executive-ready summaries
• Facilitate discussions among data owners, data stewards, business leaders, technology teams, and privacy, security, legal, and compliance stakeholders
• Support resolution of cross-functional data issues by clarifying decision points, documenting options, identifying risks, and escalating unresolved matters
• Help agencies operationalize governance committees and recurring governance cadences consistent with statewide guidance
• Support business value case development for data governance initiatives, including benefits, risks, resource needs, expected outcomes, and implementation options
• Develop and execute stakeholder engagement and change management plans for agency data governance adoption
• Create communication products such as briefings, talking points, newsletters, intranet content, FAQs, one-page summaries, presentations, and adoption messaging
• Promote data governance as a business-enabling capability, not only a compliance activity
• Communicate the value of data governance in terms of trusted data, reduced risk, improved service delivery, better decision-making, and increased efficiency

Skills

Data governance

AI governance

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Training

Job description

This is a contract position for an Enterprise Data Governance Consultant to support public-sector agencies in Nashville, Tennessee on a hybrid basis. The engagement is intended for 9+ months and seeks a consultant with strong expertise in data governance, AI governance, change management, training, and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Support agency awareness of AI governance concepts, including ethical, transparent, explainable, accountable, and human-reviewed use of data and AI-enabled systems
• Help document AI-related data use cases, data sources, stewardship responsibilities, risk considerations, and governance checkpoints
• Coordinate with privacy, security, legal, records, and compliance stakeholders when governance activities involve sensitive, confidential, regulated, or high-risk data
• Facilitate agency use of AI technologies to automate and streamline data governance practices and artifacts
• Reinforce requirements for data classification, access management, data minimization, authorized use, retention, and secure data sharing
• Support documentation of data-related risks, issues, policy exceptions, remediation actions, and audit evidence
• Promote appropriate safeguards for protected or regulated data, including HIPAA, FERPA, CJIS, IRS Pub. 1075, PCI, FTI, and PII when relevant to agency operations
• Support agency data governance planning, including charters, roadmaps, operating models, stakeholder maps, and implementation plans
• Assist agencies in defining data governance scope, ownership, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and engagement processes
• Help identify agency value-based business needs, data pain points, data quality risks, and opportunities for improved data sharing and reuse
• Support agency maturity assessments and develop practical work plans to close governance gaps
• Translate technical data governance concepts into plain-language guidance suitable for executives, business program staff, data stewards, and operational teams
• Promote consistent use of Tennessee's eight core data governance elements: Organization, Policies, Procedures, Standards/Definitions, Architecture, Data Admin/Controls, Metrics/Reporting, and Audits
• Help agencies complete governance artifacts such as RACI charts, business glossaries, data dictionaries, data inventories, data issue logs, policy/procedure mappings, stewardship plans, and governance roadmaps
• Support documentation of data domains, data owners, data stewards, business definitions, data flows, data quality rules, risks, controls, and metrics
• Assist agencies with implementation activities and evidence gathering for audit readiness
• Coordinate with the Data Governance Analyst on catalog, metadata, data classification, lineage, and related documentation needs
• Support agency use of governance metrics and maturity indicators to monitor progress and demonstrate business value
• Maintain organized repositories of governance artifacts, meeting records, training materials, communications, and implementation evidence
• Plan, facilitate, and document agency data governance meetings, workshops, steering committee sessions, and stewardship working groups
• Prepare agendas, meeting materials, decision logs, action item trackers, issue logs, and executive-ready summaries
• Facilitate discussions among data owners, data stewards, business leaders, technology teams, and privacy, security, legal, and compliance stakeholders
• Support resolution of cross-functional data issues by clarifying decision points, documenting options, identifying risks, and escalating unresolved matters
• Help agencies operationalize governance committees and recurring governance cadences consistent with statewide guidance
• Support business value case development for data governance initiatives, including benefits, risks, resource needs, expected outcomes, and implementation options
• Develop and execute stakeholder engagement and change management plans for agency data governance adoption
• Create communication products such as briefings, talking points, newsletters, intranet content, FAQs, one-page summaries, presentations, and adoption messaging
• Promote data governance as a business-enabling capability, not only a compliance activity
• Communicate the value of data governance in terms of trusted data, reduced risk, improved service delivery, better decision-making, and increased efficiency