4 Pa. Code § 5.1044 – Executive director.

(a) The Governor shall appoint an executive director to oversee the governance board’s operations and support the development, use and maintenance of the Pennsylvania Longitudinal Data System (PALDS) and who shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The executive director shall be an employee of the Governor’s Office of Administration and shall report to both the Secretary of Administration and the Secretary of Policy and Planning on the work of the PALDS governance board.
(b) The executive director shall do all of the following:
1. (1) Establish an agenda, workplan, timeline and meeting schedule for the PALDS governance board.
2. (2) Assist the PALDS governance board in fulfilling its responsibilities under this subchapter.
3. (3) Establish the PALDS management team, as authorized by the PALDS governance board with specific purposes and goals; the PALDS management team shall include, but not be limited to, agency data stewards and legal counsel from agencies that provide data to the PALDS.
4. (4) Oversee the PALDS management team. The PALDS management team shall provide recommendations on the development of the PALDS, and its ongoing operations, in compliance with legal, statutory and regulatory requirements.
5. (5) Establish cross-agency PALDS committees, if needed, to review research projects and provide recommendations to the executive director and the PALDS management team on said projects.
6. (6) Report to the PALDS governance board on a regular basis the work that is being done by the PALDS management team and any PALDS committee.