Description
We currently have a vacancy for an Information/Document Management Expert fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Brussels, Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the company’s premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team on site.
Your tasks
1. Provide expert advice on defining policies and strategies for content, records, archives and information management, including capture, selection, retention and digital preservation;
2. Contribute to the definition and implementation of metadata standards for content and records management, including archival description;
3. Implement data publication and exchange solutions by exploiting potential advantages of linked open data and semantic web technologies;
4. Conduct advanced statistical analysis of large-scale educational and social datasets to produce results suitable for publication and dissemination;
5. Produce data-driven reports and visualizations to inform education and social policy;
6. Perform integration and analysis of survey and administrative data across different domains;
7. Design and implement reproducible workflows for data processing and documentation;
8. Evaluate the effectiveness of policies and programs using quantitative data analysis;
9. Interact with IT units to define and clarify the characteristics, structure, and requirements of data sources and systems.
Requirements
10. PhD degree in statistics, economics or social sciences, combined with minimum 17 years of relevant working experience in IT;
11. At least 10 years of experience in MS Office tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc);
12. At least 10 years of experience in statistical computing using R or other reproducible research tools;
13. Experience in implementation or support of large-scale, multi-user data systems for international education and social science assessments (e.g., PISA, TIMSS, ICILS, ICCS), with a focus on metadata structuring and data quality assurance;
14. Experience in information management and metadata management, including the use of open data technologies, reproducible documentation tools (e.g. R Markdown, Jupyter Notebooks, Quarto), and support for data dissemination;
15. Experience in managing and analysing large-scale international education and social survey data, with emphasis on producing policy-relevant outputs;
16. Authorship of more than 5 peer-reviewed publications in recognized journals in the fields of education and social sciences;
17. Excellent knowledge of Windows-based user environments;
18. Excellent knowledge of statistical programming tools (e.g. STATA, SPSS, Matlab, SAS) and open-source platforms for data analysis, workflow automation, and documentation (e.g. R, Python, Apache Airflow);
19. Good knowledge of agile methodologies in collaborative research and policy development projects;
20. Knowledge in using tools to build adoption dashboards and reports;
21. Knowledge of digital preservation practices and preparation of research outputs for long-term access and public dissemination;
22. Knowledge of standards and best practices in the domain of records, archives and information management, particularly in the context of digital research documentation and open data policies;
23. Experience in E-learning creation and writing scripts would be considered an asset;
24. Good knowledge of Microsoft 365’s applications management and administration would be considered an asset;
25. Knowledge of Data Protection regulations and their impact on technical solutions would be considered an asset;
26. Excellent command of the English language, while fluency in French would be an asset.
Benefits
If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English, quoting reference: (18493/04/25).
We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience.