Join the staff—Information Associate

Location: Montreal, Canada
Duration: Permanent
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits
Hours: 35 hours per week

About the role

Reports to: Information Manager

Job purpose:  Act as a key contributor to the global delivery of information management, feedback, and research services to the organisation

The team: Information Management

Principal responsibilities

Information Management team services

• Update and maintain all Information Management team registers.
• Oversee the Information Management (internal) and Comment Letters (external) inboxes, closely following the teams' inbox management process.
• Oversee yearly subscription and database renewals with support from the Information Manager.
• Update and maintain documentation of team processes as required.
• Ensure all requests are logged and tracked through to completion on the team workplan.
• Support data quality initiatives within the team and the wider organisation. 

Feedback and research services

• Support with public consultation response processing.
• Internal and external survey design, delivery and advisory in collaboration with Technical and Operations staff.
• Coordination of project delivery using the Technical Feedback Database management projects, including requirements gathering, documentation and supporting the analysis processes.
• Provide a research service to the organisation, including answering queries from technical and operations staff in areas such as news and journal articles, company and financial information, literature searches and statistics.
• Internal and external document, data and information search and retrieval.
  

Information asset management

• Creating, updating and maintaining SharePoint site administration as directed by the Information Manager.
• ShareFile administration.
• Subscriptions and research databases procurement.
• Document, records and library management.
• Oversee onboarding in relation to research and information resources.
• Support with ad hoc systems administration tasks.
• Artificial intelligence and data science.
• Participate and support in the AI working group activities as required.
• Actively participate and support AI and data science initiatives as required.
• Source information from IFRS Foundation research databases to enable generation of insights in support of AI and data science initiatives. 

Training, support, advice and coaching

• Deliver regular training on the Technical Feedback Database for technical project teams.
• Provide ad hoc training and guidance on external research resources; promoting engagement and arranging external training as required.
• Plan and execute internal information sessions relating to developments in research and information and data science.
  

Standard responsibilities

Adopt and comply with the IFRS Foundation values, policies and procedures, and regulatory frameworks including:

• Code of conduct
• Health and safety
• Data protection, privacy and use of IT resources
• Regulatory standards and probity
• Risks and internal controls framework
• Organisational policies and procedures
• Equality and diversity

Skills, attributes and experience required

• Familiarity with business information databases such as EBSCO, Nexis, AlphaSense and Capital IQ.
• Experience with SharePoint, including knowledge of site administration.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
• Previous experience of working in an information, research, knowledge, or library role and/or a demonstrable interest in pursuing a career in this area.
• Experience of working independently as well as part of a team and managing a varied work load.
• Experience of searching for and retrieving information using online databases/search engines and presenting results in a user-friendly format.
• Educated to degree level, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Strong interest in data science and analytic.
• Experience of delivering training.

Desirable

• Experience working in a global organisation across multiple time zones.
• Qualified in information or library management or similar disciplines.
• Experience in developing data collection or cleansing procedures and data analysis.
• Experience with Python programming.

To apply

Please send a detailed CV/résumé to recruitment@ifrs.org. Please include the following information or your application may not be considered:

• the job title/position you are interested in (in the subject line of your email); and 
• covering email/letter detailing how you meet the specified role requirements and your salary expectations.

Closing date: Ongoing

Interviews are held via video conference as part of our standard international recruitment process.

Due to the number of responses, we receive, we are unable to respond individually to each application. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.