Data Coordinator

Data Coordinators serve as each department's point of contact to the Office of the Chief Data Officer (DataSF) and manage the annual data inventory for their department.

Summary

Each department needs at least one Data Coordinator to manage the data inventory process for their department. More than one may be appropriate if divisions within a department work with completely different databases and datasets.

Please reach out to DataSF ([e-mail]) to nominate a data coordinator for your department and get added to the Data Coordinator Network group or fill out this form.

What does a Data Coordinator do?

As the name suggests, a Data Coordinator is each department's project manager for the data inventory. They serve as the main point of contact and accountability for open data in their department and collaborate with their department's Data Stewards (dataset owners) to perform the inventory. More specifically, the data coordinator is responsible for:

• Collating datasets and databases for the inventory

• Establishing a plan and timeline for publishing public datasets

• Serving as a key point of accountability for timelines and questions about data sets Implementing privacy, data licensing, metadata and other standards and practices

• Providing quarterly reports on progress in implementing the open data plan

• Implementing privacy, data licensing, metadata and other standards and practices

What makes a good Data Coordinator?

A good data coordinator does not have to be the most technical person in the department or even someone in an analytics or IT function (though they could be). Most important is a deep understanding of how data is used in your department, strong relationships across your department with data users and owners (aka the data stewards), and experience with project management.

How do nominate a data coordinator

Please fill out this form or reach out to [e-mail] to nominate or become a data coordinator.

More Information

You can access the Data Coordinator Guidebook though this link.