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Document Management Specialists

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

Implement and administer enterprise-wide document management systems and related procedures that allow organizations to capture, store, retrieve, share, and destroy electronic records and documents.

What you’d do

  • Assist in determining document management policies to facilitate efficient, legal, and secure access to electronic content.
  • Assist in the development of document or content classification taxonomies to facilitate information capture, search, and retrieval.
  • Implement electronic document processing, retrieval, and distribution systems in collaboration with other information technology specialists.
  • Identify and classify documents or other electronic content according to characteristics such as security level, function, and metadata.
  • Develop, document, or maintain standards, best practices, or system usage procedures.
  • Assist in the assessment, acquisition, or deployment of new electronic document management systems.
  • Administer document and system access rights and revision control to ensure security of system and integrity of master documents.
  • Prepare and record changes to official documents and confirm changes with legal and compliance management staff, including enterprise-wide records management staff.

Skills that matter

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Writing
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Monitoring

How to get there

Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree

Also called

  • Document Control Manager
  • ECM Consultant (Enterprise Content Management Consultant)
  • Electronic Content Manager
  • Records Manager
  • Business Records Manager
  • Certified Document Imaging Architect

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