Taxonomist
Scholastic
Inc., a large children’s publishing and media company, is currently seeking a
Taxonomist to join the taxonomy team in support of projects that include site
rebuilds, content migration, and tagging. This is a full-time, temporary 3-month
position with potential for extension. This position is located in Scholastic’s
New York City offices.
Job Description
The
Taxonomist supports the refinement, and application of taxonomies and thesauri
used to support content description, search, and navigation. Work with taxonomy
team, producers, and editors across multiple site channels to refine the
existing taxonomies and thesauri, documenting the impact of possible changes.
Coordinate cross-channel taxonomy requirements. Communicate with taxonomy team
on site taxonomy issues. Assist with the creation of tagging workflows,
standards, and documentation to be used by taggers and editorial staff.
Qualifications
This position requires the initiative
and flexibility to work both independently and as part of teams to develop new
strategies and improve existing strategies for information retrieval,
reflecting and promoting customer service, using excellent interpersonal skills
and professionalism.
Requirements
·
A Library Science degree or equivalent
education and experience
·
Minimum 4 years experience in information
architecture, knowledge management, or libraries
·
Minimum 4 years experience and
demonstrated success in taxonomy and thesaurus development and management
·
Understanding of and appropriate
application of taxonomy and thesaurus standards and best practices
·
Cataloging and indexing experience
·
Experience developing indexing/tagging
and/or editorial guidelines
·
Significant experience managing
indexing/tagging efforts and teams
·
Experience with content management
systems, preferably Drupal
·
Familiarity with web content
management, information architecture, user experience, faceted classification,
and search
·
Understanding of searcher behaviors
·
Attention to detail and strong
organizational skills
·
Ability to handle multiple tasks and
meet deadlines
·
Curiosity to seek new processes and
technologies
·
Strong analytical and communication
skills
·
Microsoft Excel skills
·
Background in education or children’s
publishing and media is a plus
For
consideration, please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements to rdaly@scholastic.com.
