Data Officer

BI - Generalsekretariat Data Officer 80 - 100% The Generalsekretariat is the staff unit of the Bildungsdirektion. Around 80 employees provide central services for the Direktionsvorsteherin 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, 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 further develop the data strategy of the Bildungsdirektion and actively help shape the cantonal Data Governance. * You develop data processes, standards, and foundations for the entire lifecycle of data -- from collection and management and use to archiving. * You define requirements for data quality, data architecture, and interfaces and support their implementation within the Bildungsdirektion. * You advise our offices and specialist departments on questions regarding data collection, data modeling, data analysis, data provision, and archiving. * You demonstrate how data can be better used for planning, management, and decision-making. * You lead smaller, impactful projects in the data environment. * You represent the Bildungsdirektion in cantonal specialist committees. * You 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 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-making bases arise from data. * You communicate complex professional and technical connections understandably and in a target-group-oriented 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 initiatives. * 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 You can expect a newly created and versatile position with room for design. 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 offices. 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. Above all, however, you will have the opportunity to help shape the handling of data in a large and diverse directorate in the long term and to let concrete impact arise from conceptual foundations. Have we sparked 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 to you at . On the internet under [ ](< >) you will find additional information. j4id10407825a j4it0939a j4iy26a