Description
Administer the full lifecycle of physical and electronic records by classifying, securing, storing, retrieving, and disposing of information in compliance with policies and regulations, while supporting records systems, users, and governance across the organization.
- • Monitor laws and regulations to keep records practices compliant.
- • Write, review, and execute tests for records and content management systems.
- • Search repositories and archives to locate requested records.
- • Retrieve and distribute records to authorized users and ensure proper return.
- • Recommend improvements to records and content management capabilities.
- • Create user guides and training for records policies and systems.
- • Enforce security over record creation, processing, storage, reproduction, and archiving.
- • Scan and index paper records using imaging hardware and software.
- • Manage legal holds and coordinate defensible retention, disposition, and destruction.
- • Develop and maintain records standards, retention schedules, and procedures.
- • Help users resolve access or retrieval issues.
- • Assess departmental records needs and workflows.
- • Design or refine file plans, taxonomies, and metadata for classification.
- • Assist with selecting and deploying records management tools.
- • Help define records policies for lawful, efficient, and secure access.
- • Track and report records system performance and usage.
- • Operate data capture tools to import digitized records.
- • Administer access rights, permissions, and version control for records.
- • Implement electronic record capture, retrieval, and distribution with IT.
- • Classify records by retention, security level, function, and metadata.
- • Configure records system features, workflows, and access profiles.
- • Stay current on records management standards, technology, and best practices.
- • Record official changes and coordinate with legal, compliance, and records governance.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
