corporate sustainability
A business practice to conduct long-term sustainable growth by seeking environmental, economic, and social strategies as its three main pillars.
green
Information managers are responsible for systems that provide information to people. They assure access to the information in different work environments (public or private) based on theoretical principles and hands-on capabilities in storing, retrieving and communicating information.
Competences and skills
30 ESCO relationsEssential knowledge 3 competences
Occupation specific
0 competencesNo competences in this bucket.
Sector-specific
2 competencesdata quality assessment
The process of revealing data issues using quality indicators, measures and metrics in order to plan data cleansing and data enrichment strategies according to data quality criteria.
digital
Cross-sector
1 competencecopyright legislation
Legislation describing the protection of the rights of original authors over their work, and how others can use it.
Essential skills and competences 14 competences
Occupation specific
3 competencesanalyse information systems
Conduct analyses of information systems such as archives, libraries and documentation centers to verify their effectiveness. Develop specific problem solving techniques in order to improve the performance of the systems.
digital
cooperate to resolve information issues
Meet up and communicate with managers, salesmen, and others to facilitate cooperation and resolve problems.
develop organisational information goals
Develop and interpret organisational information goals, creating specific policies and procedures.
Sector-specific
7 competencesassess informational needs
Communicate with clients or users in order to identify which information they require and the methods with which they can access it.
design information system
Define the architecture, composition, components, modules, interfaces and data for integrated information systems (hardware, software and network), based on system requirements and specifications.
digital
evaluate project plans
Evaluate proposals and project plans and assess feasibility issues.
manage data
Administer all types of data resources through their lifecycle by performing data profiling, parsing, standardisation, identity resolution, cleansing, enhancement and auditing. Ensure the data is fit for purpose, using specialised ICT tools to fulfil the data quality criteria.
digital
manage digital libraries
Collect, manage and preserve for permanent access digital content and offer to targeted user communities specialised search and retrieval functionality.
digital
manage information access aids
Develop and maintain information access aids such as databases, digital bibliographies, web pages, software programs and online tutorials.
digital
perform data mining
Explore large datasets to reveal patterns using statistics, database systems or artificial intelligence and present the information in a comprehensible way.
digital
- Scope note
- Includes activities on big data.
Cross-sector
4 competencesdevelop information standards
Develop norms or requirements that establish uniform technical criteria, methods, processes and practices in the information management based on professional experience.
develop solutions to information issues
Analyse information needs and challenges to develop effective technological solutions.
perform customer management
Identify and understand the customer's needs. Communicate and engage with stakeholders in designing, promoting and evaluating services.
recruit employees
Hire new employees by scoping the job role, advertising, performing interviews and selecting staff in line with company policy and legislation.
- Scope note
- It may include recruiting volunteers.
Optional knowledge 2 competences
Occupation specific
1 competenceorganisational learning
The process for continuous improvement of an organisation through obtaining experience to be used to generate knowledge with the aim of sharing it within the organisation itself.
Sector-specific
0 competencesNo competences in this bucket.
Cross-sector
1 competenceknowledge base
An online library that contains information about a product or service to help customers finding answers to their queries.
digital
Optional skills and competences 11 competences
Occupation specific
0 competencesNo competences in this bucket.
Sector-specific
1 competencecreate semantic trees
Create coherent lists and hierarchies of concepts and terms to ensure consistent indexing in knowledge organisation systems.
Cross-sector
10 competencesanalyse big data
Collect and evaluate numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of identifying patterns between the data.
digital
digitise documents
Load analog documents by converting them into a digital format, using specialised hardware and software.
digital
maintain information network hardware
Assess the functionality and identify faults in the infrastructure of an information network, perform routine maintenance tasks which prevent failure and repair tasks in order to ensure permanent availability to system users.
digital
manage budgets
Plan, monitor, report on the budget and prepare set production budgets.
manage digital documents
Manage various data formats and files by naming, publishing, transforming and sharing files and documents and transforming file formats.
digital
manage digital identity
Create and manage one or multiple digital identities, be able to protect one's own reputation, deal with the data that one produces through several digital tools, environments and services.
digCompdigitaltransversal
manage schedule of tasks
Maintain an overview of all the incoming tasks in order to prioritise the tasks, plan their execution, and integrate new tasks as they present themselves.
supervise daily information operations
Direct daily operations of different units. Coordinate program/project activities to assure the respect of costs and time.
use databases
Use software tools for managing and organising data in a structured environment which consists of attributes, tables and relationships in order to query and modify the stored data.
digital
use software for data preservation
Utilise specialised applications and software to collect and preserve digital information.
digital