[Sigia-l] I/A Job Opportunity

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded because of HTML coding.  Dick Hill]

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Information Architect at our
headquarters just outside Philadelphia,
resumes and questions can be sent directly to myself.

Richard Dalton - richard_dalton at vanguard.com
Manager of Information Architecture, The Vanguard Group



Purpose
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- Clarifies the mission and vision for the site, balancing the needs of 
Business
and Users.

- Specifies how users will find and use information in the site by defining its
organization, navigation, labeling, page frameworks and searching systems.

- Maps out how the site will accommodate change and growth over time.

- Develops, Governs and Ensures Compliance to Vanguard Web UI Principles and
Strategies.


Duties and Responsibilities
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- Works with other Information Architects, designers, coders, business
representatives and usability engineers to define site functionality,
organization and navigation solutions by participating in research efforts
to identify user goals and tasks, mapping these tasks to content and deriving
the I/A.

- Conducts architecture reviews to assess impact of proposed systems on UI
infrastructure.
  Reviews and approves project team architecture choices.
Monitors project team compliance with architecture principles and strategies
and resolves complex UI issues elevated from project teams.

- Develops and Writes UI Architecture Strategy and UI Design Principle
documents and supporting material.

- Assists in defining and refining the process for creating Information
Architecture deliverables.

- Manages the UI Architecture tasks, activities and deliverables for projects.

- Analyzes qualitative and quantitative data, including usage reports, client
feedback and competitive data.


Qualifications & Experience
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A minimum of five years experience as an information architect for a large
scale complex web site with a diverse user base required. Experience applying
qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques to improve and enhance
site, and using site usage data in creating website revisions or
enhancements also required. A degree or extensive experience in human/computer
interaction, library/information science, information design, technical
communications or
a related field strongly preferred. Financial Experience preferred.

Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
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Silver Spring, MD  20910
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