City of Arlington, TX

Data and Innovation Manager

City of Arlington, TX

The Opportunity

The City's Office of Strategic Initiatives is looking for a Data and Innovation Manager to make data more accessible, optimize the use of data, and facilitate data-driven decision making and innovation throughout the City. The Manager will lead a team of individuals working towards the efficient and transparent use of data to provide timely and effective analytical support to City programs, services, and citizenry. This team is responsible for the growing and maintaining the Open Arlington data portal, which serves as a central clearinghouse for accessing, visualizing, and interacting with public open data sets. This team also produces quarterly and annual city growth reports, uses GIS to support other City departments, develops market value analysis documents and supports many other city-wide data and analytics initiatives.

The Data and Innovation Manager will ensure consistent data collection, quality, storage, and reporting, identify strategic ways of using existing data, promote the use of predictive analytics, and identify new sources of data, including how this data will be collected. They will work to optimize the City's data systems, lead its open data efforts, lead the What Works Cities and Data Governance and Innovation initiatives, and develop new and creative ways to use the City's data to better serve its citizens and respond to emerging needs.

The Data and Innovation Manager is a key position responsible for helping the City develop a culture that uses data to inform decisions, identify trends, and support its evolving performance management efforts. This individual will apply a solid foundation of related experience, an innovative perspective, and optimism while working with a strong team to enhance the organization's data culture, engage in predictive analytics, create and use dashboards and other tools, and better use data to help the City deliver responsive services. The Data and Innovation Manager will work closely with the executive leadership to help guide the organization's evolution of data collection methods, methodologies, and technologies, and use of data analytics.

Key Priorities

? Assess the City's current data culture by examining existing strategies and assets; learning about what has and hasn't worked todate; and surfacing perceptions, misconceptions, and potential challenges.

? Develop a road map for the evolution of data culture within the organization, including regular communication, basic education and training.

? Work incrementally to demonstrate the value of data analytics and leverage those successes to gain more support.

? Raise awareness of City datasets and promote the use of City data inside and outside of city government.

? Identify outside resources and tools to assist with data visualization and analysis.

? Examine case studies of previous or current efforts within organization to collect, make meaning of, and use data.

? Establish Citywide standards for data management and collection that are applicable to working both within the organization and with external partners.

? Work with City's Office of Communications to create and implement a strategy to clearly communicate data internally and externally.

? Pursue local, regional, and national partnerships to leverage resources and ideas.

? Establish a network of learning and support and cultivate relationships with peers working in other communities across the country doing similar or related work.

Background

Arlington, Texas is visible at the national level for our drive, creativity and focus on innovative, technology and databased solutions. The City was recently awarded a What Works Cities Silver Certification from Bloomberg Philanthropies for its use of data-driven and evidence-based decision making. The City is one of only seven cities recognized in 2019 and one of only 13 cities to receive a certification overall nationally.

The City's Office of Strategic Initiatives utilizes innovation, collaboration and a data-driven approach to guide programs and projects aimed to advance the City in the areas of strategic planning, research and analytics, transportation initiatives, corridor and small-area planning, neighborhood engagement and federal grant management. In Arlington, you will find leadership that is committed to a visionary, yet strategic approach that balances risk and opportunity to meet our goals. The City Council has developed their priorities with an innovative and technology-based future in mind.

Data and Innovation Manager

City of Arlington, TX

The Ideal Candidate

Experience and Education

Successful candidates will be able to quickly explain the value they would bring to the City, how their experiences will allow them to successfully transition into the position, and their overall vision for leadership as the Data and Innovation Manager. They will be adept at change management, build confidence in others, establish a shared sense of open collaboration, and make quick, tangible wins. The ideal candidate will also be able to show what's possible, manage overall expectations, and be able to effectively communicate with diverse audiences. The successful candidate must consciously and strategically balance possibilities with reality, which may involve a phased implementation of ideas and initiatives. The successful candidate will have a track record of building a network of champions for effective use of data, both in and outside the organization. They will have involvement with national trends in data and data-driven decision-making in the public and/or private sectors. The successful candidate will also demonstrate an ability to learn and respect existing organizational strengths and build on them to improve outcomes.

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in planning, public policy, public or business administration, data analytics or a related field. A Master's degree is highly desirable. Three years of progressively responsible experience in a related field. Management experience desired.

Preferred skills include, but are not limited to:

? Highly developed research and analysis skills

? Strong familiarity with GIS products and extensions (ESRI)

? Knowledge of open data trends and processes

? Advanced data visualization, graphic design, and dashboarding skills

? Knowledge of various data modeling tools

? Knowledge of techniques and tools used in advanced cartography

? Knowledge of advanced research and analysis methods, survey techniques and statistical analysis

? Advanced knowledge of open data process, standards, and data inventory requirements

? Proven experience addressing data quality/integrity issues

About Arlington

? Familiarity with the following tools, including

but not limited to: Microsoft Office Suite,

Adobe Creative Suite, SQL and ETL, R or other

advanced analytics/BI software packages,

optimization software, web analytics tools,

data mining, machine learning, predictive

analytics, and concepts of database design,

structured/Unstructured/Geospatial

data

content requirements, and Python.

The City of Arlington is a diverse metropolitan area located approximately 20 miles west of downtown Dallas and 12 miles east of downtown Fort Worth. From a regional perspective, Arlington is the seventh-largest city in Texas. Arlington is a fullservice city supported by a total budget of $431 million and a full-time staff of 2,477. Arlington is a community where citizens, civic organizations, businesses, and city government work together to ensure the community retains its hometown identity, high quality of life, and natural beauty. From shopping, dining and entertainment, Arlington continues to prove that it really is 99 square miles of culture, excellence and excitement. Easily accessible by highway, rail and air, Arlington is known for being a travel destination, boasting some of the area's and nation's top family-friendly attractions including AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys), Six Flags Over Texas, Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, International Bowling Campus, and Globe Life Park (home of the Texas Rangers).

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