At Camden data has always been viewed as one of our most valuable strategic assets and a critical component to helping us unlock solutions to the challenges we face. During the pandemic, our data capabilities have proved instrumental in helping us navigate our relief efforts, but we know more can be done to unlock its value. We want to make data, and the subsequent insight derived from it, even more accessible to staff and citizens – empowering them to make better-informed decisions.
With Camden council running over 600 ‘lines of business’ across the borough, synthesizing data sets across the council and beyond will be particularly important long term. To this end, we’re committed to making ambitious improvements in our data capability. We want to invest in an approach and a team that will strengthen our organisational approach to data – empowering our staff with better tools to turn data into insight-led action.
We now need a Chief Data Officer to be our most senior data officer in the council, leading the development of an organisational approach that will provide better synergies for the data analysis and reporting efforts of our individual services. This role is highly placed within the Council in terms of its strategic accountability, operational profile, impact on the community and the targeted aims and objectives of the council.
Reporting to the Chief Digital & Information Officer this is a senior management role and part of the Camden Digital & Data Service (DDS) Senior Leadership Team. The Head of Digital Product will be the principal authority for conceptualization of outward-facing digital products and services across the Council, delegated from the CDIO.
The role will also help Camden to adopt a user needs based methodology at scale through the use of research and iterative development – assisting the CDIO in spearheading a citizen centred approach to the application of technology and data.