Business developer wanted for world leading open data publication software team
Gavin Chait - November 25, 2013 in Jobs
If you’re a business developer with some IT experience in the public sector who’d like to help build exciting open data projects then we’d love to hear from you.
The Open Knowledge Foundation is recruiting a full-time, UK-based, business developer with experience of IT project management to join our main Services infrastructure team to develop new market and sales opportunities in the public sector. Some project management will also be required to implement contracts.
Our team provides high quality professional and technical services to clients around the world to help achieve our vision of a world empowered by open knowledge. We implement this through support of infrastructure development and capacity-building for open knowledge data sites for governments, institutions and organisations.
CKAN, our open data publication platform, is an open source web-based software project written in Python. It allows users to submit, search for and find open data. CKAN is the catalogue behind the UK government’s data.gov.uk and the US data.gov. It also powers over 60 other data catalogues around the world.
If you have a background in IT, the public sector, and business development, with a keen interest in open data, and enjoy working on open-source products, we’d love to hear from you.
You’d be part of a team:
- developing and concluding business opportunities for deploying and developing open data software infrastructure, training and consulting projects for governments and organisations;
- developing and managing our network of professional services partners;
- supporting project management and delivery of software deployments, training and consulting engagements.
Requirements
- At least 2-3 years’ business development experience;
- Self-management in a business development IT environment;
- Business-to-business and / or public-sector business development experience;
- Ability to write winning business proposals and RFPs;
- Brilliant communication skills both verbal and written;
- Some experience in IT project management;
- Enthusiasm about open data and open knowledge.