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SENIOR TAXONOMY & METADATA SPECIALIST

• Job ID: 49513

• Job Category: Information & Technology

• Division & Section: City Clerk's, City Clerk's Corporate Info Mgmt Svcs

• Work Location: Metro Hall, 55 John Street (Hybrid Work)

• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Temporary (12 months) Vacancy

• Hourly Rate: $48.49 - $53.14

• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

• Affiliation: L79 Full-time

• Number of Positions Open: 1

• Posting Period: 29-Aug-2024 to 13-Sep-2024

Major Responsibilities:

• Develops, refines, and implements multi-faceted controlled vocabularies such as taxonomies, ontologies, and thesauri to enable consistent description, discovery, and reuse of City information and data assets.

• Collaborates with internal stakeholder groups, senior leadership and subject matter experts to assess needs, model and conduct iterative evaluations of taxonomy designs based on feedback.

• Leads and supports City information and data description, contextualization and classification through collaboration and technology integration.

• Provides advisory services to corporate stakeholders in the areas of information management, controlled vocabulary management and taxonomy design.

• Leads and provides business administration and facilitates technical resolution to sustain the enterprise taxonomy platform.

• Performs gap analyses of existing business-controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and metadata and recommends action plans to resolve issues.

• Assists with the definition and modeling of structural and descriptive metadata frameworks for the management of enterprise information.

• Supports on-going enhancements to include automated metadata feed rules, data transformation and normalization, classification and enrichment, and search and discovery.

• Develops policy documents and recommendations to support vocabulary, metadata management, and data governance in the organization.

• Educates stakeholders and advocates for taxonomy and metadata tagging as best practices.

• Builds corporate awareness through training, information sessions, and participating in conferences.

• Integrates controlled vocabulary as part of information management requirements for technology or project planning considerations.

• Leverages descriptive metadata to achieve more effective data governance at both divisional and enterprise levels.

• Defines and implements an enterprise/divisional data model (such as class hierarchy and attributes) and designs controlled vocabulary architecture to ensure effective development and maintenance.

• Develops, maintains, and facilitates acceptance and adoption of policies, standards, procedures and guidelines for information management, vocabulary management, and data governance within the City.

• Develops and implements information/data policies and standards to align with strategic plans for maintaining, managing, archiving and disposing of digital assets by following information management disciplines and corporate policies and standards.

• Understands, documents and works toward achieving the business capabilities needed to deliver anticipated information management benefits.

• Participates in technology procurement/enhancement and user adoption of the taxonomy management platform.

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

1. Post-secondary education in Information Management or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.

2. Experience designing, developing, and implementing taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and/or metadata structures.

3. Experience integrating controlled vocabulary and/or metadata needs into technology and/or projects.

4. Experience providing business administration and technical resolution to sustain a taxonomy and/or related platform.

5. Experience collaborating with and providing effective advice and guidance to stakeholders on Information Management and/or related disciplines.

You Must Also Have:

• The ability to work independently with minimum supervision and cooperatively as a member of a team.

• Excellent analytical, conflict resolution, problem-solving, and presentation skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with various levels of staff within the City and all organizational levels.

• Strong coordination, organizational, and time management skills, including attention to detail with the ability to set priorities to meet deadlines.

• Ability to lead, motivate, coach, train, and work harmoniously in teams.

• Ability to support the Toronto Public Service values to ensure a culture that champions equity, diversity, and respectful workplaces.

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