If you're a business developer with some IT project management experience
who'd like to help build exciting open data projects then we'd love to hear
from you. We are looking for one person full-time to be based in the UK.

  
The Open Knowledge Foundation is recruiting a business developer with
experience of IT project management to join our main Services infrastructure
team to develop new market and sales opportunities. 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. As well as powering datahub.io, CKAN is the catalogue behind the UK
government's data.gov.uk website. It also powers over 30 other data catalogues
around the world.

  
If you have a background in IT 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 involved in:

developing business opportunities deploying and developing CKAN for different
governments and organisations;

supporting project management of software deployments and consulting
engagements;

developing the user-stories from clients that influence our product
development roadmap.

  
Requirements

  
Essential:

  * Self-management in a business development IT environment;
  * Ability to write winning business proposals and RFPs;
  * Brilliant communication skills both verbal and written;
  * Experience in project management;
  * Enthusiasm about open data and open knowledge.
Bonus points for any of these (not essential though):

  * Web app development experience in Python;
  * PostgreSQL;
  * Linux (Ubuntu/Redhat);
  * Git;
  * Experience with Agile methods.
If you'd like to apply, please email [log in to unmask] with the subject line
'Business Developer - CKAN/Services' and a copy of your CV by 30 August 2013 -
note extended deadline.

  
Further to your application:

  
Write 250 words pitching CKAN to us included with your cover letter;

Those invited to a first-round interview will be given 2 minutes to pitch
CKAN.

Being based in and around London would be a plus but we are happy to consider
applications from elsewhere in the UK.

  
- See more at: http://okfn.org/jobs/#OpenGLAMCommunityManager 



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