Demonstration Project Manager - Innovation Team

Firm: City of San Jose
Location:
San Jose

Payment: Paid
Category: Community Development
Contact: Michelle Thong
michelle.thong@sanjoseca.gov

Posted: Mar 5, 2018

The Demonstration Project Manager will be a member of the San Jose City Manager's Innovation Team, reporting directly to the Director of Civic Innovation and Deputy City Manager responsible for 21st Century Infrastructure.

The City has a Demonstration Partnership Policy that serves to take advantage of emerging technologies, product and service innovations as well as become a new economic development tool to attract innovative entrepreneurs to move to or excel in San José.

The Demonstration Project Manager (DPM) is responsible for managing multiple demonstration projects simultaneously, from ideas conceptualization to project close, across all phases of the project execution.

Examples of leading edge current or pending demonstration projects including piloting Facebook’s Terragraph Service, closing the digital divide with Community Wi-Fi across certain East Side Union High School District attendance areas, and exploring innovative ways to reduce the cost of broadband fiber deployment through Micro trenching and Nano trenching.

The DPM role requires a balance of strategic thinking, project and program management discipline, and execution orientation. They will focus on understanding an existing city challenge that can be solved through process improvements and technology solution implementation.

This role requires collaboration with various city departments including, but not limited to the City Manager’s Office (CMO), Mayor’s Office, Corporate Information Technology, Public Works, and Department of Transportation. The DPM will also work closely with different vendors and solution providers in scoping, planning and deploying solutions in the field.

For more details, see the San Jose Innovation Team's web page:
http://sanjoseca.gov/innovation