Responsibilities

• Establish comprehensive, institutional content standards governing how web assets are authored, peer-reviewed, maintained, classified, tagged, and retired across departments.
• Define and diagram end-to-end editorial workflows, establishing distinct stages for drafting, review, compliance approval, publication, periodic revision, and archiving.
• Direct the planning and structural design of organizational taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, metadata schemas, and structured CMS component types.
• Author a practical, modular Content Management Handbook / Playbook that incorporates role-based standard operating procedures (SOPs) and clear, illustrated workflow diagrams.
• Develop an actionable, phase-based Content Migration Plan outlining content inventory criteria, deduplication, semantic cleanup, static asset mapping, and specialized Centennial milestone planning.
• Support data ingestion and inventory audits to map legacy GeoInfo content, legacy databases, and document libraries smoothly into the target system architecture.
• Guide hands-on content optimization and structural rewriting for high-visibility landing destinations, including the main homepage, core research portals, and Centennial celebration features.
• Establish multi-tier editorial permission structures and role matrices tailored to the agency’s operational divisions and research groups.
• Advise executive and technical leadership on ongoing operational staffing models, resource allocation, and organizational capacity required for post-launch content governance.
• Produce a comprehensive, user-friendly CMS Training Manual and plan, conduct, and record a live training curriculum for the agency’s content authors and editors.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of professional content strategy experience, including demonstrated leadership in content governance, editorial operations, taxonomy/metadata architecture, and large-scale migration planning for enterprise digital ecosystems.
• Proven success crafting comprehensive digital content strategies for large, content-rich, multi-layered websites or distributed institutional platforms.
• Advanced expertise in content governance modeling, editorial lifecycle design, granular permissions structures, and decentralized publishing operations.
• Extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative content audits, formulating structured migration plans, developing taxonomies, and designing modular content types for modern CMS platforms (such as Drupal or Wagtail).
• Demonstrated ability to translate dense, scientific, or highly technical subject matter into streamlined, audience-focused digital content models and practical editorial guidelines.
• Strong portfolio of authoring polished, user-centered governance artifacts, including operational playbooks, SOPs, editorial style guides, and staff-facing documentation.
• Exceptional facilitation, interview, and interpersonal communication skills, with a track record of bridging technical developers, product owners, and academic/scientific subject matter experts.
• Prior experience supporting public-sector, higher education, scientific research, data-intensive, or state/federal agency web transformation projects is preferred.

Preferred

• New Mexico residents willing to travel on-site to Socorro, NM, up to 2 times during the project lifecycle.
• Direct experience working within Higher Education, state agencies, or scientific/engineering research institutions.