What are the responsibilities and job description for the Governance/Outreach Specialist position at Red Arch Solutions?
Governance/Outreach Specialist
ROLE OVERVIEW
Red Arch Solutions is seeking an experienced Governance & Outreach Professional to support the development and execution of data governance frameworks and interagency collaboration initiatives for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). With 15 years of professional experience, you will play a critical role in drafting governance policies, maintaining best practice repositories, and executing informal/formal collaboration mechanisms across the Intelligence Community (IC). Working under the Outreach Lead, you will ensure that data stewards, technical teams, and IC partners remain aligned on metadata standards, quality metrics, and sharing protocols.
The Red Arch Distinction: People First Red Arch Solutions is a flat, highly collaborative organization where your voice is heard. We prioritize work/life balance and individualized professional growth, backed by a 100% company-paid healthcare model, a robust annual training allocation, and an elite technical community solving our nation's most urgent national security challenges. |
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Governance Support: Assist in the development of the Data Governance Framework, including defining roles/responsibilities (Data Owners, Stewards, Custodians) and drafting policies covering data classification, metadata management, and access/sharing protocols.
- Outreach & Engagement: Execute informal collaboration mechanisms, including coordinating regular VTCs, technical exchange forums, and email lists to foster IC data community social networking.
- Meeting Facilitation: Support the planning and execution of monthly Technical Exchange Meetings and bi-monthly Stakeholder Engagement Meetings. Prepare briefing materials, capture technical discussions, and meticulously document outcomes and action items.
- Best Practices Management: Build and maintain a robust best practices repository that documents successful metadata approaches, common challenges/solutions, and reusable templates from across the IC.
- Activity Tracking: Systematically track partnership activities, ensuring that collaborative activities, joint deliverables, and resolved issues are accurately documented and reported.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Clearance: Active, current Top Secret / SCI with Polygraph is mandatory.
- Experience: 15 years of professional experience, with specific background in federal data governance, program coordination, or stakeholder management within the DoD or Intelligence Community.
- Communication Skills: Strong capability in technical writing and documentation, with the ability to translate complex data governance principles into actionable policies and meeting minutes.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in communications, Public Administration, Information Management, or a related discipline.
- Exceptional executive-level presentation and negotiation skills.
- Proven track record of successfully drafting and executing Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between federal intelligence agencies.
- Familiarity with organizational change management and adoption metrics related to data modernization.
The Red Arch Solutions pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several factors including, but not limited to, level of position, job responsibilities, geographic location, scope of relevant work experience, educational background, certifications, contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements, alignment with local internal equity as well as alignment with market data.
Red Arch Solutions Benefits Snapshot:
- 100% paid employee healthcare premiums. CareFirst Advantage Best in Class Benefits.
- HaloScripts Concierge prescription medication service
- Generous PTO.
- 10 % 401K 6% match vested day one and up to 4% profit sharing contribution.
- Annualized bonus compensation.
- Spot bonuses for hard work.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- 529 College Saving Plan.
- College Loan Pay Back Program.
- 11 Paid Federal Holidays
- Generous Referral Bonuses.
Red Arch Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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