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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Information Management Specialist - Leuven - Contract - **Company:** ConSol Partners - **Location:** Leuven, Belgium - **Experience:** Starter - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Data Governance, Information Lifecycle Management, Information Management, Machine Learning, Meta-Data Management, Reference Data, Power BI, Software Tools, Microsoft SharePoint, Data Management - **Published:** September 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.be/details/5881106315 ## About the Role * We welcome strong junior talent and early-career professionals who demonstrate analytical strength, autonomy, and a fast-learning curve. * This role suits someone who enjoys figuring things out. * Analytical & Conceptual Strength Ability to analyze information structures, processes, and metadata. * Strong abstraction skills: able to distil complex reality into clear models, structures, and actions. * Communication & Stakeholder Skills. * Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, and visual - including the ability to explain complex concepts using diagrams and structured presentations. * Comfortable aligning diverse stakeholders and facilitating workshops, building and maintaining a strong network among researchers and project managers to proactively identify opportunities and needs. * Represent our client in Flemish Research Data Network activities related to data management plans and ontology development. * Working Style & Mindset Self-directed and ownership-driven: you take responsibility for moving your work forward, seek out information proactively, and escalate only when needed. * Adaptable and resilient: you remain solution-oriented even when facing ambiguity or new challenges. * Creative problem-solver with a can-do mentality: you enjoy figuring things out, learning quickly, and tackling issues with initiative and creativity. * Experience Master's degree or equivalent experience. * 2+ years of work experience OR demonstrated high potential as an analytically strong junior with the right mindset. * Affinity and interest in information/data governance and metadata management. * Working proficiency in Dutch and English, both spoken and written. * SharePoint expertise is considered a great plus Software tool development is considered a plus. * Real experience setting up Sharepoint or using Power BI a plus. ## Description * Implement Open Science principles through cross-institutional collaboration and our client-wide information management projects. * Lead the business adoption of the data catalog and business glossary and ensure they become an integral part of researchers' workflows. * Guide researchers in managing their information assets (datasets, definitions, reports, code, and machine-learning models) using workshops, visual tools, training materials and a variety of communication channels. * Provide assistance in preparing and completing. * Data Management Plans and oversee their implementation within relevant projects. * Structure, Improve & Contribute to Information management. * Tooling Collaborate with ICT, researchers, and business stakeholders to gather needs, create prototypes, and validate tool capabilities. * Collect structured feedback, user insights, and improvement recommendations to selection, configuration, or enhancement of information management tooling. * Identify and develop improvements to policies, guidelines, standards, processes, templates, terminology, metadata, … to help both research and business users work consistently and efficiently. * Design, set up and structure document libraries that support the information lifecycle in close collaboration with researchers. * Define and maintain ontologies that bring coherence to terminology and definitions across our client, create a supporting reference data management tool. ## Related Videos - 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