Description
Manage the lifecycle of organizational records to ensure access, compliance, and risk reduction. Develop policies, systems, and retention schedules to support legal, audit, and business needs.
- • Implement and administer electronic records and content management systems.
- • Design classification schemes, metadata standards, and file plans for retrieval.
- • Appraise records for business, legal, fiscal, and historical value to set retention.
- • Develop and maintain records inventories and organization-wide retention schedules.
- • Establish and enforce records policies, access controls, and governance standards.
- • Oversee capture of records at creation and onboarding of new repositories.
- • Direct staff and vendors managing intake, indexing, storage, and maintenance.
- • Preserve and digitize records; manage format migration to ensure integrity.
- • Document provenance, chain of custody, and audit trails for compliance.
- • Administer legal holds, e-discovery, audits, and information request responses.
- • Train employees on records policies, classification, and system use.
- • Monitor compliance with regulations and standards; conduct audits and report metrics.
- • Supervise secure transfer, storage, and final disposition per retention schedules.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
