Chief Ocean Data Officer

**Position Details**:

- Position Information**Position Title**
- Chief Ocean Data Officer

**Department/Unit**
- Ocean Frontier Institute

**Research Project**
- Transforming Climate Action

**Location**
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

**Posting Number**
- GP029-24

**Employee Group**
- Grant-Paid

**Position Type**
- Term

**Duration of Contract (if applicable)**
- 1 year, with possibility of renewal

**Employment Type**
- Full Time

**Full-time Equivalency (FTE)**
- 1.0

**Salary**
- $95,000 - $140,000 per annum (35 hours per week)

**About the Organization**
Dalhousie University’s Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) is one of the world’s most significant ocean science research and training collaborations with partnerships extending globally, across many sectors such as university, government, research institutes, industry, NGO, and philanthropic. OFI administers several ocean research and training programs including the Canada First Research Excellence Fund program, _Transforming Climate Action: Addressing the Missing Ocean_, a 7-year research and training program, in partnership with Université du Québec à Rimouski, Université Laval, and Memorial University of Newfoundland. For more information about OFI and the Transforming Climate Action (TCA) program, visit transformclimateaction.ca and ofi.ca.
Associated programs include the Canadian Integrated Ocean Observing System (CIOOS) (Atlantic), the St. Lawrence Global Observatory (SLGO), and DeepSense. CIOOS Atlantic is a collaboration of partner institutions committed to the development of a data management and dissemination approach for oceanographic data from the Atlantic Seaboard, a region spanning from Labrador to the Maine/New Brunswick border (cioosatlantic.ca). SLGO is a region in CIOOS and works to establish and operate an autonomous center for the integration and dissemination of data and information about the St. Lawrence’s global system, providing access to open data and ensuring its international reach (slgo.ca). DeepSense unites the next generation of AI and machine learning experts with companies that want to harness the potential of data and lead the smarter ocean economy (deepsense.ca).

**Job Summary**
- Reporting to the OFI Scientific Director & CEO, the Chief Ocean Data Officer will be responsible for leading and overseeing the execution of a data strategy for ocean research, including data management, data science, and data sharing. They will be responsible for establishing, managing and coordinating the distributed staff of the Data Transformation Accelerator of the Transforming Climate Action (TCA) research and training program, across multiple partners, and for liaising with associated programs including providing strategic advice.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Create strategy to identify how data collected across the TCA research initiatives can create more value to TCA and to external partners/stakeholders, and how it can best reach and benefit Canadian individuals, decision-makers, and organizations; including strategy to incorporate commercial, partner, and internal data into a data registry to create value internally and externally.
- Build and lead a team that can create value from ocean data, including locating, managing and connecting data across multiple TCA projects, including innovation and commercialization initiatives, the Canadian Integrated Ocean Observation System (CIOOS), and other OFI-led initiatives.
- Provide data leadership through provision of strategic advice beyond TCA as it pertains to the technical side of data management and associated programs at the partner institutions, including OFI, CIOOS, DeepSense, SLGO, and related initiatives.
- Provide strategic technical advice to data management and technical teams.
- Identify potential strategic, long-term opportunities and directions for OFI, TCA, and associated initiatives.
- Working closely with the scientific and organizational leadership teams, support domestic and international partnership building as it relates to realization of established objectives, both existing and new, public and private sectors; and act as an influencer/advocate/thought leader for policy-related aspects affecting this space.

**Note**
- The successful applicant will be eligible for hybrid work (combination of in-person work on campus and remote work) as agreed by all parties based on operational requirements and university guidelines.
Infrequent travel within Eastern Canada and possibly internationally may be required..
Evening and weekend work may be required on an occasional basis to meet operational requirements.

**Required Qualifications**
- Undergraduate degree in information management, computer science, business management, engineering, ocean science or related field with a minimum of 10 years of experience developing and implementing data management strategy and value creation through data.
- Demonstrated understanding of the technical and non-technical dimensions of