Data Governance and Reporting Manager

About the role

Community Housing Canberra (CHC), a not-for-profit provider of affordable and social housing in Canberra, is creating a new Data Governance and Reporting Manager position. Reporting is currently coordinated at team level, and the role will set up a centralised framework of systems, frameworks and processes that supports CHC's growth. The manager reports to the Senior Legal Officer and works across tenancy, development, finance, HR and legal.

Key responsibilities

• Review current reporting, data and systems across teams, identifying gaps, overlaps and improvement opportunities
• Establish data governance, including shared definitions, data quality rules and clear data ownership
• Build and maintain a central register of reporting obligations
• Deliver accurate, timely reporting to government, regulators, funding partners and the Board
• Develop reports, dashboards and templates in Excel and Power BI
• Design and document processes, quality assurance and data checks
• Lead data and reporting on new system implementations, including platform assessment and business cases
• Lift compliance reporting and advise the executive and the Audit, Risk and Finance Committee on compliance status and data quality

Required profile

• Experience setting up or improving data, governance and reporting across a diverse organisation
• Technical knowledge combined with strong communication skills, able to engage tenancy officers, lawyers and accountants
• Adaptable and flexible in a fast-growing organisation undergoing significant change
• Desirable: experience preparing reporting for government, regulators or Boards; experience in property, construction, community housing, not-for-profit or government-funded environments; interest in social and affordable housing

Required skills

• Data skills across Excel, dashboards and extracting and reporting data from multiple systems
• Financial literacy and commercial acumen
• Process design, implementation and embedding across teams
• Stakeholder engagement and influencing, including explaining data and change to non-technical colleagues

What we offer

• Salary of $145k - $160k plus 12% superannuation
• Permanent, full-time role based at the Bruce office, with flexible, outputs-focused working typically two days from home
• Salary packaging available through CHC's PBI status
• Health and wellbeing benefit worth $700 and free on-street parking at the Bruce office

The role is recruited exclusively through the recruiter HorizonOne. Applications close on Monday 16 November at 11:59 AM AEDT and are subject to a police check, pre-employment fraud check and qualification check.