Metadata Governance Specialist

1 week ago

Washington DC USA, United States Library Systems & Services Full time
Job Description

**Job Summary**

Library Systems & Services is seeking a part-time Metadata Governance Specialist to maintain its enterprise metadata standards and help to optimize the value of metadata for knowledge discovery and analytical work related to key international topics (Climate, Digitalization, Anti-corruption, etc.) at an intergovernmental organization.

**Key Responsibilities**

  • Maintenance and Enhancement of Enterprise Metadata Dashboard

The Metadata Governance Specialist will maintain and enhance the enterprise metadata dashboard, in close collaboration with other Knowledge Management specialists, with an eye towards continuous improvement and fit-for-purpose.

Engagement with Business Subject Matter Experts

The Metadata Governance Specialist will engage business subject matter experts as needed, to refine and expand the scope of the metadata standards for audio-visual outputs and other types of digital assets.

Contribution to Operational Improvements

The Metadata Governance Specialist will contribute to operational improvements with IT and other teams; implement, enhance, or sustain workflows to streamline changes/updates to the metadata standards.

Business Requirements for Enterprise Metadata Management System

The Metadata Governance Specialist will build business requirements for an enterprise metadata management (EMM) system.

Collaboration with IT Specialists

The Metadata Governance Specialist will collaborate with IT specialists to preserve data/metadata vintages (e.g., member country economic classifications) to support historical data analyses.

Data Readiness Assessments

The Metadata Governance Specialist will participate in data readiness assessments during new platform implementations to help ensure metadata standards are adopted; conduct audits to identify major discrepancies, inaccuracies and opportunities for further alignment or enhancements to the standards to meet business objectives.

Metadata Success Metrics

The Metadata Governance Specialist will collaborate with other staff in Knowledge Management Unit to establish and report on metadata success metrics, including in the context of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for IT implementations.

Application of Technical Knowledge

The Metadata Governance Specialist will apply technical knowledge to projects and initiatives that utilize the metadata standards, including for content tagging with the use of automated metadata extraction and enrichment (autoclassification) tools.

Collaboration with Other Staff

The Metadata Governance Specialist will collaborate with other Knowledge Management Unit staff to respond to departmental requests for metadata outputs from content management systems to support country analytical work.

Metadata-Driven Solutions

The Metadata Governance Specialist will help translate end user or project team requests into metadata-driven solutions and updates.

Metadata-Based Analytical Products

The Metadata Governance Specialist will coordinate the development of metadata-based analytical products/dashboards (e.g., to determine patterns in topic coverage, data reporting, economic policy advice, etc.).

Data Quality in Knowledge Graphs

The Metadata Governance Specialist will collaborate with other staff to foster data quality in knowledge graphs and other information sources by ensuring consistent metadata lineage between repositories and the enterprise ontology.

**Requirements**

Mandatory Qualifications

  • 4-year college/bachelor's degree. Master's degree preferred.
  • Background in Library/Information Science, Knowledge Management, Business Semantics Management, Economics, or other related fields.
  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise metadata governance and management to support a variety of systems and functions, both for front-end and back-end use (e.g., information retrieval, knowledge discovery, autoclassification, data fabric, analytics, or architecture).
  • Familiarity with digital asset management systems (DAM), content management systems (CMS) or Data Management systems.
  • Prior experience with data/metadata management in international organizations is a plus.
  • Ability to design, create and maintain metadata schema for content/data management, and for use by autoclassification tools.
  • Familiarity with common international frameworks pertaining to metadata management, including Dublin Core, RDF (OWL), SKOS.
  • Ability to interpret organizational needs and translate them into business or operational requirements for metadata management and implementation.
  • An understanding of the relationship between metadata and ontologies, and metadata and taxonomies, and how they can be integrated.
  • Familiarity with best-in-class semantic technologies, including enterprise metadata management tools, and how they are used to support enterprise metadata governance.
  • Experience designing or managing business and operational processes or workflows that support metadata management or other work programs in the Knowledge Management domain.
  • Ability to effectively plan and balance multiple project assignments.
  • Understanding of how metadata benefits various business needs, including knowledge management and data analytics.
  • Ability to clearly explain metadata principles and standards, and other technical or complex information in non-technical business terms.
  • Ability to effectively engage with a wide range of business stakeholders in a multi-functional and multi-cultural organizational environment.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.
  • Team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills and listening skills.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.

Benefits

Part-Time

  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

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