Data Officer 80 - 100%

Data Officer 80 - 100% #

The General Secretariat is the staff unit of the Bildungsdirektion. Around 80 employees provide central services for the Director and the departmental offices. Data is a central basis for sound decisions, effective management, and a modern administration. With the introduction of cantonal Data Governance, the Canton Zürich is expanding the prerequisites for using data systematically.

In the Bildungsdirektion, we are consistently taking this path further. For this purpose, we are looking for a personality who thinks strategically, recognizes connections, and can win people over for a professional and effective handling of data.

Your area of responsibility ###

• You will further develop the data strategy of the Bildungsdirektion and actively help shape the cantonal Data Governance.
• You will develop data processes, standards, and fundamentals for the entire lifecycle of data - from collection and management and use to archiving.
• You will define requirements for data quality, data architecture, and interfaces and support their implementation within the Bildungsdirektion.
• You will advise our offices and specialist departments on issues related to data collection, data modeling, 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, impactful projects in the data environment.
• You will represent the Bildungsdirektion in cantonal specialist committees.
• You will work closely with internal specialist departments such as information security, data protection, law, finance, digital, and educational planning.

Your profile ###

• You have a tertiary education, for example, in business informatics, informatics, Data Science, statistics, or a comparable subject area.
• 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-making bases arise from data.
• You communicate complex technical and professional connections in an understandable and audience-appropriate manner.
• You possess strong advisory and communication skills and move confidently when dealing with different stakeholders and hierarchical levels in public administration.
• You bring experience in leading or managing projects and endeavors.
• You work independently, structured, and responsibly.
• You are able to drive topics forward strategically and create orientation even without direct authority to instruct.
• Knowledge of common Data Governance frameworks is an advantage.

Our offer ###

A newly created and versatile position with scope for design awaits you. You will operate at the interface of expertise, digitalization, strategy, and organization and work with a wide variety of areas of the Bildungsdirektion as well as with cantonal partner agencies.
We offer you a collegial and interdisciplinary working environment, flexible working hours, the possibility of home office, as well as a centrally located workplace in the immediate vicinity of the Zürich Hauptbahnhof.

But above all, you will receive the opportunity to help shape the handling of data in a large and diverse directorate in the long term and to allow concrete impact to arise from conceptual foundations.

Have we aroused your interest? Then we look forward to your online application.
For questions, Sandra van der Luijt, Head of Human Resources, is available at 043 259 23 04.

You can find additional information on the internet at www.bi.zh.ch.