Hybrid Data Governance & AI Compliance Consultant

ESG Consulting; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

ESG Consulting seeks a Data Governance Program Consultant to support hybrid engagements in Nashville, TN. The role emphasizes AI governance, privacy, risk, and compliance, with duties ranging from governance strategy to documentation and training across state data governance programs.

Responsibilities include coordinating with privacy, security, legal, and business teams, developing roadmaps, charters, and implementation plans, and translating complex concepts into executive-ready guidance.

Qualifications

• Facilitate cross-functional meetings with business, technology, privacy, security, legal, compliance, and executive stakeholders.
• Develop practical data governance strategies, implementation plans, training plans, communications, and adoption materials.
• Translate complex data governance, data management, metadata, data quality, privacy, and AI governance concepts into plain language.
• Build trust with agency stakeholders and guide groups toward decisions, documented actions, and measurable progress.
• Apply change management practices to support adoption of new roles, responsibilities, processes, and governance behaviors.
• Develop business value cases for data governance initiatives.
• Support governance documentation aligned to frameworks, policies, procedures, standards, controls, and audit expectations.
• Understand data governance operating models, data ownership, data stewardship, metadata, data catalogs, data quality, data lifecycle management, data sharing, and data risk management.
• Work independently while coordinating with the Enterprise Data Governance Manager, Data Governance Analyst, and agency stakeholders.
• Produce clear, professional, executive-ready written products.

Responsibilities

• 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, 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.

Skills

Cross-functional facilitation

Data governance strategy

Plain-language translation

Stakeholder trust-building

Change management

Business value cases

Governance documentation

Data governance operating models

Independent work

Executive-ready writing

Tools

Data catalog tools

Metadata management tools

Issue tracking tools

Job description

ESG Consulting seeks a Data Governance Program Consultant to support hybrid engagements in Nashville, TN. The role emphasizes AI governance, privacy, risk, and compliance, with duties ranging from governance strategy to documentation and training across state data governance programs.

Responsibilities include coordinating with privacy, security, legal, and business teams, developing roadmaps, charters, and implementation plans, and translating complex concepts into executive-ready guidance.