Senior Data Manager, Documents
Climate Policy Radar
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £60,000 - £75,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the aggregation of external document collections into CPR’s systems, ensuring they are structured, consistent and usable
- Define, apply and maintain metadata standards, schema requirements, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies
- Evaluate and onboard new sources and datasets
- Work alongside the partnerships team to support highly-respected external document collection curators
- Anticipate and manage schema evolution as external providers update or expand their data
- Create and carry out data quality processes, including identifying duplication, improving metadata completeness, and maintaining consistency across collections
- Ensure that content gaps raised by user feedback or analysis feed back into collection priorities and schema development
- Document processes and standards so workflows are repeatable and scalable
- Track and communicate the impact of data ingestion efforts, including metrics on database coverage, data quality and update frequency
Requirements
- At least 10 years of professional experience, with at least 5 years of experience managing large or complex digital document collections
- Strong experience designing and governing metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies, and taxonomy development
- Demonstrated proficiency in structuring and maintaining aggregated datasets from multiple external sources, ensuring clarity, interoperability, and scalability
- Experience evaluating external datasets for structure, completeness and long-term maintainability
- A track record of improving processes — designing workflows that are reproducible, well-documented, and resilient to change
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
- A deep commitment to employee wellbeing, including policies such as four-day workweek (same pay, Fridays off)
- Generous leave
- Wellbeing allowance
- Vibrant, collaborative, empathetic work culture that thrives on innovation and the impact of our work
- Hybrid work model that encourages collaboration while providing flexibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
metadata standardsschema requirementstaxonomiescontrolled vocabulariesdata quality processesdata ingestionaggregated datasetsdata completenessdata interoperabilityworkflow design
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementprocess improvementteam collaborationproblem-solving