Data Management and Requirements Specialist

**Contract Type: Full time, Permanent**
**Location: Kings Cross, London**
**Salary: up to £50,000 per annum, dependent on experience, plus benefits**
The Open Data Institute is looking to appoint a Data Management and Requirements Specialist for the OpenActive initiative in partnership with Sport England.
About the ODI
The ODI works with governments, NGOs and commercial enterprises all over the world. We deliver advisory, training and research and development services, encompassing public policy, business strategy and technology. Our programme of work is busy and constantlychanging. We are committed to producing work at a very high standard and delivering measurable value to our partners and clients.
**About the role**
To foster change in the physical activity sector, OpenActive needs to ensure that organisations within it are adopting our standards and using them as effectively as possible. Equally, we need to make sure our standards serve their needs and help such organisationsrealise value from them. On the one hand, then,
the role of the Data Management and Requirements Specialist is to encourage and support our partners in implementing OpenActive standards by providing them with technically-informed guidance, smoothing and reducing the learning curve for organisations new toopen data approaches. Equally, it is to engage deeply with such groups to understand the data-related aspects of their goals and strategies, and to ensure
OpenActive’s continued relevance to these.
Working closely with both the Technical and Engagement teams in the ODI’s OpenActive programme, you will be responsible for liaising with developers and stakeholders, in order to help them understand our technical standards, the Open Source tools and librariesthat have developed to support these, and the steps they need to take to start publishing, consuming, or improving OpenActive data.
Where appropriate, you will be comfortable creating data-focused technical documentation, presentations, and tutorials
**Key responsibilities**:

- Defining data requirements, data specifications, and assessing how best to meet these within OpenActive standards
- Supporting the OpenActive engagement team by acting as a technical advisor in external group calls and workshops.
- Working with members of the OpenActive community to resolve data issues
- Engaging with end-users, stakeholders, and other members of the OpenActive community
- Drafting of requirements and specification documents, and of Invitations to Tender
- Providing technical guidance to non-technical community members on data-related issues
- Planning and producing high-level technical documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Leading data design meetings and workshops

**Essential**:

- Experience of and understanding of data management, including data collection, data schemas, and datastores.
- Experience in data management practices related to metadata and data quality
- Excellent influencing and communication skills, demonstrable ability to engage, work with and influence both business & technical teams
- Strong end-user focus and a strategic thinker
- Fluent written and spoken English

If you feel like you are suited to this role but don’t have all of the skills listed above, we encourage you to still apply. Please do so by outlining why you feel you are suited to the role and the unique skills that you would bring to it.
**Benefits**
5% contributory pension
30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays
Life Assurance cover
Long-term disability cover
Critical illness cover
Flexible working
Coaching and mentoring for skills and personal development
£750 annual training budget toward your own professional development
How to apply
Ref: 134 549