IT Trainee (Open Data) at City of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario

"As a member of the Enterprise Solutions Services team, the successful student will be involved in supporting a move toward analysis and interpretation of data for the Open Data Unit in the Information & Technology Division, assisting and contributing in the development and demonstration of application opportunities (e.g. sample apps, data visualization) using available data on the City's Open Data portal (toronto.ca/open).

Major Responsibilities:

• Assists, contributes in the development and utilization of processes and tools to identify and produce open data from corporate information systems.
• Assists in assessing current state of City's Open Data inventory and portal.
• Participates in discussion on standards for data presentations for the City's Open Data portal
• Participates in Open Data community events (e.g. Civic Tech TO, hackathons)
• Assists in educating staff in understanding and communicating Open Data needs and processes to user/developer
• Assists with web design and maintenance.
• Collects data for others to analyze.
• Assists with organizing and presenting data collected.
• Assists others with drafting documents.
• Documents/maintains/inputs/updates data.
• Researches faults/problems for others to analyze/process.
• Assists with simple programming.
• Answers calls, takes messages and directs inquiries to appropriate staff to answer questions/handle requests.
• Travels to various locations and participate in special events, shows or meetings."