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Metadata / Taxonomy Analyst, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA

What you’ll do:

  • Work closely with the metadata and taxonomy team to leverage your library and information science skills on customer-facing projects.
  • Oversee branches or entire vocabularies of common and/or proper nouns in taxonomy and metadata modeling tool suite
  • Create or curate new branches or entire vocabularies for a given content set / customer
  • Analyze and map vocabularies or metadata schema
  • Define vocabulary concepts
  • Use a product vocabulary to tag content

Who you are:

  • Master’s degree or equivalent graduate education in Library/Information Science, Business Administration, or other relevant discipline (will consider pre-matriculated students in the above graduate programs).
  • Professional-level information management / content management, taxonomy, or metadata work experience.
  • Experience in the use of common office tools for information analysis, modeling, management, and presentation.
  • Excellent organizational, writing, communication, and interpersonal skills; ability to work independently as well as within a team environment
  • Self-motivated learner with ability to take initiative and thrive in an evolving and collaborative environment and produce timely, high quality results.

Schedule:  up to 17 hours per week, flexible (part-time, no benefits)

Pay Rate: Hourly rate $25/hr.

To apply: Submit resume and cover letter to Jennifer Wilson, IPS Program Manager at [email protected], Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA  02163. No phone calls please. Note that resumes submitted without a cover letter will not be considered. Please reference the position title in the subject line of your email.