[Metadatalibrarians] FW: Taxonomist position

[Hutt, Arwen]

Forwarded on behalf of Alia Nurmohamed (alia at michaelswilder.com)
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I would like to post this to your site:

 

Title: Taxonomist

Location: Herndon, VA

Company: K12

 

About Us: 
Founded in 1999, K12 Inc. is a company committed to excellence in
education. K12 is a curriculum development company and provides
management services to public charter schools throughout the United
States. The company has developed an excellent curriculum and
instructional tools to help give children a great education. Programs
are offered in six core subjects (Language Arts, Math, History, Science,
Art and Music). The company's unique program combines online technology
with traditional content and the world's best teaching methods.
Education is delivered virtually to charter schools, school districts
and to home school environments. The US Department of Education has
identified this area of education to be the fastest growing of all
education segments. "Hundreds of thousands are taking advantage of
e-learning this school year" (US Department of Education, 2004).

 

Taxonomist

 

As the Taxonomist, you will be responsible for comprehensive taxonomy,
with standard people, processes and tools to manage current and
anticipated requirements for content input, access and lifecycles across
all K12's content and learning products. IN this role, you will index
and tag information and data the organization receives or creates
through multiple sources, such as integrating outside courses, content
authoring and system generated data. 

 

Responsibilities:

*	Create, guide, expand and maintain multi-faceted taxonomies and
metadata schemas for k12; ensure taxonomy provides tangible via search,
user-interface, access to content, etc.
*	Ensure business compliance
*	Communicate and facilitate related training, presentations and
project meetings
*	Approve, edit and remove terms from controller vocabularies
*	Resolve tactical and strategic data quality issues
*	Implement data quality and organization projects
*	Identify tool and process improvements
*	Identify, manage and execute strategic data organization
projects

 

Qualifications:

*	Advanced degree in Library Sciences, Linguistics or equivalent
knowledge management experience
*	5+ years experience in information architecture, knowledge
and/or content management, library or other collection-related industry
*	Familiarity with current concepts, practices and trends in
digital asset management, search engines/portals, database and data
modeling structures
*	Ability to synthesize complex technical concepts, protocols and
standards
*	Development of controlled vocabularies
*	Familiarity with various ontology(s) and current Internet
standards
*	Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders and facilitate
diverse, complex business needs with active participation and group
consensus
*	Exceptional communication skills

Benefits:

In exchange for your hard work and dedication, we offer excellent pay
with great benefits. 

To Apply: 
To respond to this opportunity, please email jobs at k12.com with TXMST in
the subject line.

 

EOE