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TALENT Software Services; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TALENT Software Services is seeking a consultant to support the Tennessee Center for Enterprise Data & Analytics (CEDA) in expanding enterprise data governance services, AI data preparations, and training. You will engage agencies, facilitate governance activities, and help mature data governance programs aligned with state strategies.

The role emphasizes public-sector facilitation, change management, training, communications, and practical governance implementation across agency programs, with

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 concepts into plain language for varied audiences.
• Build trust with agency stakeholders and guide groups toward decisions and measurable progress.

Responsibilities

• AI Governance, Privacy, Risk, and Compliance Support: Integrate responsible AI, privacy, security, and compliance into governance practices.
• Data Governance Strategy and Agency Engagement: Align activities to value, priorities, compliance, and state strategy.
• Data Governance Implementation Support: Assist agencies in using statewide tools, templates, and docs.
• Facilitation and Governance Meeting Support: Lead governance sessions and working groups.
• Change Management, Communications, and Marketing: Promote adoption through planned communications and campaigns.
• Training Development and Delivery: Create and deliver governance learning products for agencies.

Skills

Facilitation

Data governance

AI governance

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Training development

Communications

Agency engagement

Project planning

Job description

Position Summary
The successful candidate will support the Center for Enterprise Data & Analytics (CEDA) in expanding enterprise data governance services, AI data preparations, training, communications, stakeholder engagement, and agency implementation support. This position will work under the direction of the Enterprise Data Governance Manager to help agencies and departments establish, mature, and sustain data governance programs.
The role supports Tennessee’s enterprise approach to managing data as a strategic asset, improving trusted data use, reducing risk, enabling secure data sharing, and increasing efficiency through standardization. The State’s Enterprise Data Governance Program is built around a coordinated Framework, Guidebook, and Playbook that define the “why,” “what,” and “how” of statewide data governance implementation.
This position is intended for a consultant with strong public-sector facilitation, AI governance, change management, training, communications, and data governance implementation skills. The consultant will help translate governance concepts into practical agency actions, including data strategy development, governance meeting facilitation, stakeholder engagement, maturity assessments, implementation planning, training delivery, and program communications.

Primary Responsibilities

• AI Governance, Privacy, Risk, and Compliance Support: Help agencies incorporate responsible AI, privacy, security, and compliance considerations into data governance practices.


• Data Governance Strategy and Agency Engagement: Align data governance activities to business value, mission priorities, compliance needs, and statewide data strategy.


• Data Governance Implementation Support: Support agency use of statewide data governance tools, templates, and documentation practices.


• Facilitation and Governance Meeting Support: Serve as a facilitator and working-session lead for agency governance activities.


• Change Management, Communications, and Marketing: Sustain adoption of data governance practices through clear communications, change management planning, and program marketing.


• Training Development and Delivery: Develop, maintain, and deliver data governance learning products for state agencies.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• 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.


• Understand data governance operating models, data ownership, data stewardship, metadata, data catalogs, data quality, data lifecycle management, data sharing, and data risk management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data governance, data management, enterprise information management, organizational change management, training, or stakeholder engagement programs.


• Experience working with state government, local government, public-sector programs, or highly regulated environments.


• Familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK, data stewardship, metadata management, data quality management, data classification, data lifecycle management, and data governance maturity models.


• Familiarity with AI governance concepts, responsible AI principles, or frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.


• Experience developing and delivering training, workshops, presentations, job aids, communications, and adoption campaigns.


• Experience supporting governance councils, committees, working groups, or cross-functional decision-making bodies.


• Experience with enterprise data catalog, metadata, business glossary, data inventory, issue tracking, collaboration, or knowledge management tools.

Join us in Nashville, TN, a vibrant city known for its rich music history and bustling cultural scene, where you can contribute to meaningful data governance initiatives within the public sector.