The Federal Transit Administration is searching for a Chief Data Officer (CDO) for statistics, according to a job posting on USAJobs.gov.
FTA is a modal administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that provides financial and technical assistance to public transportation systems that include buses, subways, light rail, commuter rail, trolleys, and ferries. Components of FTA include organizations providing policy direction in the areas of planning and environment, research and development, grants management, safety and security, strategic planning, civil rights, financial integrity, and human resources.
The CDO serves as the senior data scientist advisor to the FTA Executive Director, for all matters related to data assets including data governance, advanced analytics, statistical modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
According to the posting, duties for the Chief Data Officer include:
- Provides technical leadership for a range of program activities that are critical to enable data driven decision-making in a variety of ways. This can include providing and leveraging centralized agency analytics capacity, and creating tools and platforms that improve operational and programmatic capabilities and enable self-service for the public.
- Collaborate with peer agencies inside and outside of the Department to identify promising new technologies and best practices relevant to FTA’s lines of business and be a change manager to drive a shift in culture to adopt and learn new technology and data management/analysis.
- Advances policies for making FTA data available to the public more consistently, expediently, and accurately and would be a liaison to Open Data organizations outside the agency to help these organizations use the data efficiently and accurately.
- The Chief Data Officer has less than 25% supervisory duties.
