Enterprise Data Governance Consultant - Hybrid Nashville, TN

Job Type FT Contract

Enterprise Data Governance Consultant

Position Summary

The Enterprise Data Governance Consultant will support the State of Tennessee Center

for Enterprise Data & Analytics (CEDA) in expanding enterprise data governance

services, AI data preparations, training, communications, stakeholder engagement, and

agency implementation support. This contractor position will work under the direction of

the Enterprise Data Governance Manager helping 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

The contractor will help agencies incorporate responsible AI, privacy, security, and

compliance considerations into data governance practices.

Responsibilities include:

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 appropriate privacy, security, legal, records, and compliance

stakeholders when governance activities involve sensitive, confidential, regulated, or

Facilitate agency exploitation of AI technologies to establish practitioners to automate

and/or 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, PII, and other applicable standards when

relevant to agency operations. Data Governance Strategy and Agency Engagement

The contractor will help agencies align data governance activities to business value,

mission priorities, compliance needs, and statewide data strategy. Responsibilities

include:

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,…