Data Officer

Your Area of Responsibility

• You will further develop the data strategy of the Education Directorate and actively shape the cantonal Data Governance.
• You will develop data processes, standards, and foundations for the entire lifecycle of data – from collection through management and use to archiving.
• You will define requirements for data quality, data architecture, and interfaces and support their implementation within the Education Directorate.
• You will advise our offices and specialist units on questions concerning data collection, data modelling, data analysis, data provision, and archiving.
• You will demonstrate how data can be better used for planning, management, and decision-making.
• You will lead smaller, effective projects in the data environment.
• You will represent the Education Directorate in cantonal expert committees.
• You will work closely with internal specialist units such as information security, data protection, legal, finance, digital, and educational planning.

Your Profile

• You have a tertiary education, for example in business informatics, computer science, data science, statistics, or a comparable field.
• You bring experience in the areas of data management, data governance, data strategy, or data architecture.
• You have a good understanding of how relevant information and decision bases arise from data.
• You communicate complex professional and technical contexts clearly and appropriately for the audience.
• You have strong consulting and communication skills and are confident in dealing with different stakeholders and hierarchy levels in the public administration.
• You bring experience in leading or managing projects and initiatives.
• You work independently, in a structured and responsible manner.
• You are able to drive topics strategically forward and create orientation even without direct authority.
• Knowledge of common data governance frameworks is an advantage.

Our Offer

You can expect a newly created and versatile position with scope for design. You operate at the interface of expertise, digitalisation, strategy, and organisation and work with various areas of the Education Directorate as well as with cantonal partner offices.
We offer you a collegial and interdisciplinary working environment, flexible working hours, the possibility of home office, and a centrally located workplace in close proximity to Zurich main station.

Above all, you will have the opportunity to help shape the handling of data in a large and diverse directorate in the long term and to turn conceptual foundations into concrete impact.

Have we aroused your interest? Then we look forward to your online application.
If you have any questions, Sandra van der Luijt, Head of Human Resources, is available at 043 259 23 04.
 
Additional information can be found on the internet at www.bi.zh.ch .