Senior Specialist, Content Provenance And Integrity (Hybrid)

The employer creates content that informs, entertains, and connects Canadians across multiple platforms. The organization is seeking a Senior Specialist to lead the development and coordinate the implementation of content provenance technologies and standards throughout the content lifecycle. The employer is at the forefront of industry adoption of content provenance standards both nationally and internationally, collaborating with key players in media, education, research, and technology, including the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), the Partnership on AI, and the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC).

Content provenance metadata is critical for asserting the origins of media assets, proving authenticity, and tracking editorial changes, thereby establishing a “chain of custody” throughout the content lifecycle. This approach benefits content creators by validating the authenticity of their work and tracking content usage for copyright purposes. For journalists and other creators, it enables rapid and accurate content verification, safeguards information about origins, and legitimizes edits. For audiences, it ensures transparency regarding content origins while tracking ownership and authorship.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Content Lifecycle, the Senior Specialist will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that content provenance metadata practices and systems operate optimally. This includes continuously improving information architecture, related systems, and workflow processes. The role also involves promoting and implementing content provenance practices across various systems and teams throughout the organization.

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• In this role, you will use a variety of facilitation techniques to lead efforts with stakeholders within the organization to define technical and business requirements, identify opportunities where content provenance and validation can play a role in improving business processes, audience experience and increasing collaborative newsgathering and content sharing across the corporation.
• The challenge of content provenance implementation is intricate and involves the identification and in-depth analysis of multiple factors. You will apply your specific expertise to lead conversations with external stakeholders, communicating business needs in order to collaboratively develop suitable processes and standards.
• You will facilitate the devising of shared objectives and the identification of key results. Your decision-making will have a significant impact on planning and the successful completion of deliverables.
• You will champion team collaboration, motivate, coach and remove barriers for success.
• You will promote and provide opportunities for the implementation of ongoing metadata governance practices.
• Their content production and presentation environment is composed of many platforms and systems supported by a number of functional groups within the organization. Your ability to collaborate with these teams to establish new workflows and provide a new perspective on existing solutions will be key to succeeding in this role and to meet the evolving needs of the business as content provenance technologies gain broad adoption in the industry.

Key Tasks:

• Advises, guides and provides support in project planning or development.
• Assesses feasibility, identifies risks, and recommends solutions that take into account the organizational objectives and policies.
• Evaluates time and resources required in conjunction with stakeholders, industry partners and third-party vendors.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners to share information and processes effectively, while ensuring confidentiality where appropriate.
• Guides the definition of project metrics with stakeholders, and validates the various stages of development of the project in order to ensure business objectives are met.
• Facilitates and documents the post-mortem review, evaluates project outcomes and processes, and provides recommendations for future endeavours.
• Assumes responsibility for all required communication, including regular progress reports, and flags issues for escalation as appropriate with both internal and industry stakeholders.
• Respects best practices in project management in order to strengthen standards of quality and productivity.
• Ensures processes are in place to track actual progress against initial expectations throughout the various stages of the project.
• Ensures that each project is set up with considerations for the establishment of ongoing content provenance and metadata governance initiatives.
• Identifies intersections between individual projects and provides opportunities for collaboration and communication of shared activities.
• Utilize change management approaches to influence the adoption and standardization of content provenance tools and technologies within their content archiving and management systems.

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• Knowledge and experience with change management practices are a must for this role, as is the ability to manage priorities and schedules to move initiatives forward and meet established targets.
• You leverage your subject-matter expertise, technical knowledge, facilitation and communication skills to bring members of various functional groups together to find the optimal solution. You understand that every client has different needs, and while some solutions are obvious, others require research and creativity to bring them to light.
• The ideal candidate would also possess an Information Science background. You should bring a solid understanding of content provenance and metadata schema. You have an interest in keeping abreast of continually evolving best practices in this field and how those can be applied in the media industry.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Information Science, or equivalent.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in information management in the media environment.
• Experience in process management and process improvement.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing in French is an asset.