Who will this role appeal to?

Are you an experienced consultant who...

• Can get deep into a client’s knowledge systems without losing sight of the business big picture?
• Accurately assesses and estimates client’s capacities to handle large-scale portal content efforts?
• Wants to make a difference for clients by improving their capability to build and maintain portals?
• Understands collaboration and Web 2.0 opportunities and can lead clients to leverage them effectively?
• Is inspired by working in a collaborative environment, consulting with world-class organizations, and helping to lead the portal industry by being the best?

Then you have come to the right place, the "logical" place for your best career move!

Scope of this Position

• This position handles a range of analysis and design work involving portal content use, findability, process improvement, asset management, systems support, production management, and program governance.
• In preparing for this position, the candidate will have worked as a consultant for a minimum of 5 -7 years or shown equivalent experience working business executives and high-level project sponsors.
• Role requires experience in large-scale content management—especially web content management—and web development.
• The role requires knowledge of enterprise portals, intranet, and/or extranet solutions and their value propositions, including Web 2.0 in the enterprise.
• The position reports to the Director of Information and Knowledge Management from a discipline perspective and the Project Manager from an engagement perspective.

Job Requirements

• Develop and define content architectures for major enterprise portal projects
• Help clients plan portal production and maintenance efforts
• Analyze clients’ current-state systems and operations to determine scope of content and portal production efforts
• Show clients how to model their portal around business-content uses
• Collaborate with usability, business analysis and visual design disciplines to develop intuitive user interfaces that fulfill user needs and business objectives, with an eye towards optimal leveraging of content
• Advise on the use of content to enhance user experience and how to present and style portal content
• Write appropriate portal-side web content as required
• Interface with the client throughout the project to present, review and update all content-related materials
• Support communication needs within LDS: advise/mentor communication team members as necessary; provide consultation as needed to other LDS staff; provide content/editorial support for marketing and other LDS projects, as needed

Consulting Requirements:

• Assume responsibility, welcome accountability
• Think critically and creatively
• Display exceptional communication skills: presentation, facilitation, oral, written, listening and conflict resolution.
• Organize and lead teams in accordance with established project initiatives and be able to quickly evaluate alternatives
• Provide project leadership that effects influence with clients, team members, stakeholders and LDS leadership for successful outcomes.

Education:

• Minimum - B.A. degree in any humanities field or B.S. in Information Systems.
• Masters degree preferred, especially M.IS.

Location: Florham Park, NJ

Travel: Travel to client sites expected (approximately 30%), trade shows and sales prospects as needed.