About this role
RQ11450 Senior Information Management Specialist
Positions: 2
Location: Toronto, ON ? 56 Wellesley Street
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite ? 5 days/week
Start Date: October 26, 2026
End Date: October 5, 2027
Contract: Full-time, 100% allocation
Rate: $70/hr incorp
Position Overview
We are seeking Senior Information Management Specialists to provide expert advice and support on information management practices, governance, records management, information architecture, metadata, classification, privacy, and the information lifecycle.
The successful candidates will support Ministry and Cluster clients in managing both structured and unstructured information and will contribute to information management modernization, digitization, migration, governance, and transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Provide expert advice on information management best practices, standards, methodologies, and emerging trends.
Analyze information management requirements across areas such as records management, information governance, privacy, access, and information lifecycle management.
Lead or coordinate information management initiatives and provide ongoing guidance and support to business and project teams.
Develop information management frameworks, policies, protocols, guidelines, business rules, naming conventions, version control standards, and document management practices.
Develop business and records classification schemes using functional classification methodologies.
Assess metadata requirements and develop metadata schemas, standards, taxonomies, and management protocols.
Support information inventories, records assessments, classification exercises, data quality initiatives, and information lifecycle activities.
Support the digitization, migration, modernization, and conversion of legacy records, documents, and repositories.
Identify information security and privacy classification requirements and support their implementation within unstructured data and document management applications.
Assess information management risks and gaps and provide recommendations for improvement.
Support business and information architecture activities by defining information management needs, priorities, and solutions.
Develop and track information management performance measures.
Conduct research, environmental and jurisdictional scans, maturity assessments, business process analysis, and reviews of legislation, policies, and standards.
Support the development and implementation of information management strategies, goals, and priorities.
Lead or support the development of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs).
Develop training materials and communication plans and deliver information management awareness and training to diverse audiences.
Participate in information management committees, working groups, workshops, and stakeholder meetings.
Collaborate with business analysts, architects, data specialists, project managers, technical teams, records management specialists, and other stakeholders.
Build and maintain effective relationships between Ministry clients and OPS I&IT organizations.
Must-Have Qualifications
Strong knowledge of information architecture, metadata management, taxonomy development, classification structures, and content management practices.
Demonstrated experience supporting digitization, migration, and modernization of legacy records, documents, and repositories.
Strong knowledge of information management, information governance, records management, retention, disposition, and information lifecycle management.
Experience developing information management frameworks, metadata models, classification schemes, retention schedules, and governance processes.
Experience conducting info