Senior Information Management Specialist

We are seeking an experienced Senior Information Management Specialist with deep, hands-on expertise in stewardship and accountability models to lead the operationalization and documentation of enterprise information management frameworks. In this role, you will be responsible for leveraging pre-existing models to establish, maintain, and document information stewardship, ownership, and governance procedures across multiple business domains. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, business leaders, and technical teams, you will conduct information asset inventories, implement metadata governance processes, perform information quality assessments, and embed information lifecycle management standards into day-to-day operations.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 12-month contract

Advantages
Strategic Governance Impact: Direct hands-on leadership operationalizing enterprise stewardship and accountability models across multiple business areas.

Full Lifecycle Scope: Drive initiatives spanning information asset inventories, metadata governance, quality reviews, and lifecycle management.

Executive-Ready Delivery: Author foundational governance frameworks, policies, and operational procedures for enterprise alignment.

Collaborative Onsite Environment: Partner directly with senior architects, business analysts, and operational leads in a dedicated Toronto workspace.

Responsibilities
Stewardship & Accountability Operationalization: Establish, document, and maintain information stewardship, ownership, and operational accountability models across diverse business units using established frameworks.

Information Governance Frameworks: Develop, implement, and maintain enterprise information management frameworks, governance policies, operational procedures, and compliance standards.

Metadata Governance & Business Glossaries: Define and implement metadata governance procedures, stewardship workflows, and governance processes that support business glossaries and metadata repositories.

Information Asset Inventories & Quality Reviews: Conduct comprehensive information asset inventories, lifecycle assessments, and information quality reviews, delivering actionable recommendations to improve data integrity.

Standards & Operational Procedures: Author document management protocols, functional classification schemes, naming conventions, retention guidelines, and data-sharing interoperability procedures.

Stakeholder Facilitation & Consensus: Facilitate working groups and cross-functional alignment sessions to establish consensus on governance decisions, information ownership, and stewardship responsibilities.

Governance Artifact Deliverables: Produce structured governance artifacts, operating models, implementation roadmaps, and training materials to support enterprise-wide information management adoption.

Qualifications
Governance Frameworks & Policies: Demonstrated experience developing and implementing comprehensive information management and governance frameworks, policies, and operational standards (Strictly Required).

Stewardship & Accountability Models: Proven hands-on experience establishing, maintaining, and documenting information stewardship, ownership, and accountability models across multiple business units (Strictly Required).

Lifecycle & Quality Management: Deep knowledge of information lifecycle management, information quality management, and information asset management principles (Strictly Required).

Inventories & Metadata Procedures: Practical experience conducting information asset inventories, quality assessments, and establishing metadata governance procedures (Strictly Required).

Nice-to-Have Assets:
Prior information management or data governance experience within a public sector or enterprise environment.

Experience governing business glossaries, reference data, metadata catalogs, and information repositories.

Knowledge of records management, retention schedules, and digital accessibility standards (AODA).

Experience developing functional records classification schemes and supporting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs).

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Information Management Specialist" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

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