People Analytics & Data Governance Lead

Children's National Medical Center; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 138,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Children's National Medical Center is seeking a Manager, People Analytics and Data Governance to lead analytics strategy for HR data, reporting, and dashboards. The role requires driving data governance, data quality, and actionable insights to support HR decision-making and workforce planning at a national pediatric hospital.

The candidate will mentor staff, collaborate with HR, IT, and department leaders, and promote best practices in data visualization and reporting automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Statistics, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• 8 years of experience (Required).
• 5 years of progressively responsible experience in data analytics, business intelligence, reporting, Workday reporting, Business Solutions analytics, or related data management functions.
• 3 years of experience leading teams, projects and/or programs.
• Strong experience with Workday Reporting, Workday Prism Analytics, Excel and Power BI required.
• Prior experience leading analytics projects, managing reporting priorities, and supervising or mentoring staff is preferred.
• General experience in Human Resources or healthcare with a familiarity with HR, payroll, financial and operational data sets is also preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of data analytics, reporting, and dashboard strategies that support HR operations, workforce planning, compliance, and data-driven decision making by HR leadership and organizational leaders.
• Manage analytic priorities, project timelines, stakeholder expectations, and deliverables to ensure high-quality work is completed accurately, efficiently, and in alignment with business needs.
• Partner collaboratively with department leaders, management, IT, Human Resources, and other stakeholders to define business questions, reporting requirements, metrics, and analytics solutions.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve dashboards, scorecards, visual reports, recurring reports, ad hoc analyses, and executive-level data summaries.
• Establish and promote standards for data definitions, reporting design, dashboard development, data governance, documentation, quality assurance, and analytics best practices.
• Analyze complex data sets to identify trends, patterns, risks, opportunities, and actionable insights that support operational improvement and strategic decision making.
• Oversee data integrity activities, including validation, reconciliation, quality checks, issue identification, and resolution in partnership with Business Solutions, IT, and functional business owners.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on data analytics approaches, reporting tools, visualization techniques, metrics development, and interpretation of data findings.
• Lead data-related projects, including reporting automation, interface and data feed requirements, modifications to existing data processes, and implementation of new analytics tools or solutions.
• Prepare and support audit, compliance, and control reporting needs, ensuring that reporting outputs are accurate, timely, and appropriately documented.
• Provide guidance, training, coaching, and support to team members and end users to strengthen data literacy, reporting capabilities, and consistent use of analytics resources.
• Maintain effective working relationships with internal and external partners and coordinate with IT Helpdesk or technical resources to resolve data, reporting system access, and application issues as needed.

Skills

Workday Reporting

Workday Prism Analytics

Excel

Power BI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Children's National Medical Center is seeking a Manager, People Analytics and Data Governance to lead analytics strategy for HR data, reporting, and dashboards. The role requires driving data governance, data quality, and actionable insights to support HR decision-making and workforce planning at a national pediatric hospital.

The candidate will mentor staff, collaborate with HR, IT, and department leaders, and promote best practices in data visualization and reporting automation.