Data Governance Culture Coordinator

**Starting Date**:August 2025

**Contract type**: Full-time and open-ended

**Salary**: if in Delhi - 2,058,495 INR, if in Lahore - 5,256,150 PKR, commensurate with relevant experience and skills

**Location**: Delhi, Lahore

**Application closing date**:24-06-2025

**About the Job**

As Better Cotton embarks on its next strategic phase to achieve the 2030 vision and drive impactful change for farmers, IT & Data team aims to improve access to better quality data to both internal & external stakeholders for data-informed decision making.

The Data Governance and Culture Coordinator plays a vital role in ensuring that Better Cotton data is well-managed, trusted, and used responsibly across the organization. This position sits at the intersection of people, process, and policy—working closely with data owners, champions, and functions to implement data governance frameworks, support compliance with data privacy regulations, and drive documentation of data processes. You'll help foster consistency in how data is defined, stored, and accessed, and ensure that governance structures and practices are both effective and embedded in day-to-day operations.

In addition to governance, this role champions a strong and inclusive data culture by supporting data literacy initiatives, creating learning resources, and showcasing impactful data use. You will help coordinate training sessions, lead internal communication efforts around data, and promote responsible, confident data use across all levels of the organization. This is a collaborative role for someone who is passionate about both the strategic and cultural aspects of data, with an eye toward building lasting, organisation-wide capabilities. You will report to the Data Services Manager, and be part of the wider IT & Data team.

Are you purpose-led and ready to embark on a journey to shape the future of sustainable cotton? Join us at Better Cotton as Data Governance and Culture Coordinator for the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative - we support more sustainable farming practices and farm livelihoods for nearly 3 million farmers in the Better Cotton network in 23 countries around the world.

**The Challenge**

Looking ahead to 2030, we are targeting reducing GHG emissions from cotton production by half, big cuts in synthetic pesticide use, improve soil health across our network, improve farm income and support women’s empowerment among farmers and farm workers.

**Areas that play to your strengths**

We are seeking a motivated **Data Governance Culture Coordinator** to join our **IT & Data Team**. In this role, you will be responsible for:
**Data Governance**:

- Assist the Data Services Manager in implementing and maintaining data governance policies, processes, and frameworks.
- Drive meetings and working sessions with data owners and champions to understand existing data processes, pain points, and requirements.
- Document data processes, flows, definitions, and responsibilities across business functions.
- Monitor data quality metrics, carry out root cause analysis and support the resolution of data quality issues.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure data standards and compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements.
- Organise and support Better Cotton’s technology steering group, data governance working groups, or ISEAL communities of practice.
- Maintain and update documentation for data governance programme such as Data Glossary, Conceptual data model, Data Governance policy.
- Act as a liaison between data champions, IT, and business functions to resolve governance issues.
- Support periodic audits of data management practices to ensure alignment with governance standards.

**Support data privacy and protection efforts, including**:

- Coordinating data privacy impact assessments (DPIAs) for new systems or data uses.
- Assisting teams in classifying personal or sensitive data according to internal and legal guidelines.
- Ensuring that data retention, consent, and access management processes are documented and aligned with applicable regulations (e.g., GDPR & other national data privacy laws where Better Cotton is present).
- Supporting awareness and training around privacy policies and best practices.

**Data Culture**:

- Partner with data champions from the data governance programme to promote awareness and adoption of data governance principles.
- Contribute to the development of training materials and workshops to enhance data literacy across the organisation.
- Help drive employee engagement initiatives related to data culture, such as storytelling, campaigns, and sharing success stories.
- Facilitate onboarding for new staff on data practices and tools.

**We are looking for someone who has**

the following skills, knowledge, and experience:

- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Information Systems, Data Science, Business Administration, or equivalent experience).
- At least 4-5 years of experience working in dat