Fwd: Job Posting: France, DINUM- Open Source Expert

[Georgia Bullen]

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From: Katharina Meyer - Program Director Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 07:51

Dear all,

The French governments DINUM unit is currently offering a job at the intersection of public sector, Open Source/Commons, communities and governance- translation below (French proficiency required):  https://choisirleservicepublic.gouv.fr/offre-emploi/2025-2018533/?tracking=1&idOrigine=502 

(for reference, see also the blue hats initiative: https://bluehats.world/about/) 

Expert in Free Software, Open Source, and Digital Commons
Ref: 2025-2018533

Public Service
French State Public Service

Employer
Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM)
Department of Interministerial Products Operator
Open Source and Digital Commons Unit

Location
20 avenue de Ségur, 75007 Paris

Field: Digital
Application deadline: 07/09/2025

Nature of the position
Open to permanent civil servants and contract staff

Experience required
Not specified

Remuneration
Indicative range for contract staff: Not specified

Category
Category A (executive level)

Management
No

Telework possible
Yes

Your missions in a few words

As an expert in free software, open source, and digital commons, you play a strategic role in:

• Strengthening and securing the State’s contributions to open source software and digital commons that are strategic for its services.

• Building expertise within DINUM and ministerial teams.

• Representing DINUM’s work in ecosystems in France and abroad.

You will be part of the “Open Source and Digital Commons” team at DINUM, contributing to its development.

Main activities

1. Support product teams and build expertise

   • Facilitate the work and upskilling of DINUM product teams on open source and digital commons.

   • Guide teams in technical and legal decisions, and in establishing long-term cooperation with strategic communities to reduce risks such as forks.

   • Animate the Blue Hats community, share best practices, and contribute to capacity-building within the State on free software and digital commons.

2. Develop the expertise of the Open Source and Digital Commons unit

   • Contribute to frameworks that facilitate State contributions (contractual frameworks, governance models, licensing strategies, shared documentation).

   • Support the evolution of structuring products such as:
     • Knowledge base code.gouv
     • Interministerial free software platform
     • Inventory of source codes

3. Promote DINUM’s work in ecosystems

   • Represent DINUM in national and international spaces (conferences, institutional networks such as the Free Software Council, communities).

Profile sought

Expertise

• Recognized expertise in free and open source software: at least 10 years of digital experience, partly within or alongside the public sector.

• Strategic knowledge of public digital policy, including digital sovereignty, innovation, interoperability, openness, and State transformation.

Proficiency

• Deep understanding of open ecosystems, digital commons, and community cooperation models, with hands-on contribution or governance experience in projects.

• Familiarity with product management methods applied to open source and commons.

Skills

• Ability to coordinate and empower teams, create effective collective dynamics, and work across technical, legal, and strategic domains.

• Change management capacity: spreading free software and digital commons culture in complex, multi-service environments.

• Strategic vision to identify levers (technical, legal, organizational, partnerships) to maximize the impact and sustainability of public investments.

• Proven experience in building partnerships with communities, businesses, public institutions, or international actors.

Application elements

Documents required: CV + motivation letter

Contact: emma.g...@mail.numerique.gouv.fr

Contract type: 3-year fixed-term (CDD) / Permanent (CDI)

Additional appreciated technical skills

• Mastery of open source contribution tools (GitHub, GitLab, Forgejo), governance practices, and community dynamics.

• In-depth knowledge of open licenses and legal implications.

• Understanding of software architectures (APIs, microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD).

Soft skills

• Strong organizational sense, autonomy, creativity.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to maintain diverse relationships.

• Ability to represent in international environments with good command of English.

• Public service ethos and commitment to the general interest.

Vacancy date: from 06/09/2025

Reference role: Specialist in methods and tools / quality / security

About us

The Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) operates under the joint authority of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Public Service, Simplification, and Transformation of Public Action.
It coordinates and supports State administrations and supervised bodies to improve efficiency, quality, and reliability of digital public services.
DINUM also leads the State’s IT pooling strategy and may intervene in its governance and implementation.

Joining DINUM means becoming part of a collective of about 234 staff with a common ambition: Digital technology in service of public action efficiency.

The Open Source and Digital Commons unit ensures and secures DINUM’s usage and contribution to free and open source software and digital commons. As a transversal OSPO, it brings together a multidisciplinary team working alongside DINUM product teams and in interface with French administrations, European institutions, governments, and communities worldwide.

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