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About the Role
Providing strategic leadership for the Council’s AI Governance Framework, this role ensures AI adoption is safe, ethical, legally compliant, and aligned with corporate priorities, public-sector expectations, and ambitions. It involves designing and leading AI risk classification, governance, and approval processes, evaluating AI risks, and defining governance standards.
Responsibilities
- Design, lead, and assure proportionate AI risk classification, governance, and approval processes.
- Evaluate the risks of proposed and existing AI.
- Define and maintain governance standards, templates, controls, and guidance for delivery teams.
- Write papers, recommendations, and decisions for senior boards and forums.
- Maintain oversight of compliance, assurance outcomes, and audit findings.
- Integrate AI governance with the Council’s wider data, information, and technology governance arrangements.
- Set expectations for data ownership, stewardship, classification, lineage, retention, quality, and use.
- Embed AI governance requirements into strategic procurement, programme delivery, architecture review, service transition, and operational change.
- Maintain records.
- Align governance activities across different teams.
- Provide practical advice to enable colleagues to meet requirements and resolve issues promptly.
- Deliver targeted support to improve AI capabilities.
- Coordinate the investigation and resolution of any issues that arise.
- Monitor changes in legislation, regulation, and public-sector guidance.
- Produce strategic reports on risks, controls, compliance, benefits, assurance trends, and governance maturity for senior leaders.
Requirements
- Significant experience of leading or maturing AI, data, information, or technology governance in a complex, regulated organization.
- Ability to translate legal, regulatory, and organizational requirements into practical standards and controls.
- Working knowledge of UK GDPR and other relevant laws and regulations.
- Experience of applying data governance principles to procurement, project delivery, service transition, or operational change.
- Ability to exercise strong professional judgment in complex circumstances.
- Ability to balance innovation, risk, ethics, legal compliance, and public value.
- Ability to convert governance requirements into clear, usable processes, standards, and guidance.
- Excellent writing skills to produce clear, concise, and evidence-based advice, papers, and reports for diverse audiences.
- Interpersonal abilities to influence senior stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to resolve competing priorities and secure agreement on governance outcomes.
- Ability to coordinate assurance activities, maintain records, and drive actions to completion.
- Confidence to communicate with authority, challenge appropriately, explain complex decisions, and advise senior forums.
- Ability to analyze assurance data and emerging developments to identify trends and recommend improvements.
- Readiness to collaborate with Data Protection, Information Governance, Cyber Security, Architecture, Procurement, Legal, and Delivery teams.
Skills
- AI Governance
- Data Governance
- Information Governance
- Technology Governance
- Risk Management
- Ethical AI
- Legal Compliance
- UK GDPR
- Procurement
- Project Delivery
- Service Transition
- Operational Change
- Strategic Planning
- Report Writing
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Collaboration
- Problem Solving
- Data Analysis
Location
- Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree or equivalent professional experience in governance, risk, assurance, data, technology, public policy or a related field.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Salary/Compensations
- £58,299 - £79,410 per annum
- Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Benefits
- Flexible working patterns
- Agile working
About the Company
- Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where creative and enterprising people put local residents and businesses first.
- Westminster is the most connected borough in London.
- Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace.
- The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.
- Westminster is an amazing place, home to more than 200,000 residents and over 50,000 vibrant businesses.
- Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making.
- We build a more inclusive city that celebrates diversity, and where residents, workers, and visitors from all backgrounds feel welcome and safe.
- Westminster City Council prides itself on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice.
- We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds.
- We aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve.
- We champion equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing.
- We aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging, and is empowered to be their best.
- The Council is a Disability Confident Employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
- The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.
- We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background.
- While the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.
- If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
- The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job.
- If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.