Senior Policy Adviser - Open Data

Would you relish the opportunity to work across teams and collaborate with Senior leaders and rail industry partners?

Do you want to help realise the potential of data to deliver a step-change in the way the industry communicates with its passengers, and to help secure efficiencies in a £20 billion per year industry?

If so, we are looking for a talented Senior Policy Adviser, and we would love to hear from you!

This is an exciting time to be joining our Rail Data Policy and Projects team. You will be at the forefront of designing policy and delivering projects that will drive improvements to the use of rail data within the Department and across the rail industry. Our team plays a key role in setting the Department’s strategic direction on how rail data is accessed, used and shared in an open and collaborative way.

You will deliver on the Department for Transport’s (DfT) objectives to unlock the value of rail data, which has become a key priority for our Ministers and senior leadership team.

The Department is working closely with the rail industry to deliver an ambitious programme that seeks to use data in innovative ways to deliver improvements to rail passengers and open the industry up to innovation. DfT’s leadership and engagement with the industry is key to achieving good outcomes and you will play a key role in delivering a range of projects focussed on improving the value of data.

Responsibilities

As Senior Policy Adviser your key responsibilities will include a blend of policy and project delivery within a technical context, including;

• Managing innovative grant funded projects, including establish a new central Open Data publishing platform for the rail industry.
• Playing a pivotal role in delivering on the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail data commitments – you will oversee the development and delivery of an Open Data programme to ensure data plays a key part in improving services for passengers.
• Working closely with legal and commercial teams to remove blockers to data sharing across the rail sector.
• Working closely with the Department’s wider transport data community to develop and implement a rail data policy that fits with the broader transport data objectives.
• Working directly with groups within the rail industry on cross-cutting projects for rail data improvements that will include maximising on opportunities to accelerate the use of innovative technologies and analytical methods.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile.

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