San Diego seeks chief data officer

If you like open data and great weather, the city of San Diego is looking for a performance and analytics chief data officer.

Responsibilities include:

· Provide written guidelines describing how to prepare an inventory of data sets owned or managed by the City which is subject to the Open Data Policy; · Publish the initial City Department data inventories on the City’s web site; · Prepare and publish a technical guidelines manual for the publishing of public data sets through a Web Portal; · Work with the public to identify high value data sets and make them available to the greatest number of users and for the greatest number of applications; · Whenever practicable, use voluntary compliance standards for web publishing and e-government, as described in Office of Management and Budget Circular A-119 Revised, unless no Voluntary Compliance Standards are suitable; · No later than 18 months from the effective date of the Open Data Policy, and annually thereafter, provide a Compliance Plan to the Mayor and the Council; · Submit written reports to the Mayor and the Council on the status of implementation of the Open Data Policy; · Include specific measures for the annual updates to the Compliance Plan to make additional public data sets available on the Web Portal; and · Assist with other key initiatives, including, but not limited to, strategic planning, and performance measures and management.

Application close date is July 17. Apply here.