Digital Asset Manager

The Digital Asset Manager oversees the management of the organization's digital content assets in the collection, organization, maintenance, archiving and delivery stages. He/ She develops the policies for the data management system and master library of documents, images, videos, presentations, audio files, including the type of formats needed for various platforms. He also establishes relevant naming conventions, metadata and content rights standards and assortment and collection relationships. He collaborates with media operations and sales teams, as well as external stakeholders such as agency representatives and vendors on the management of the digital assets. The work involves setting up systems, establishing processes, planning operations and leading a team involved in the execution of media data management operations. He is an expert planner and effective at stakeholder management. He should be able to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and be able to work both independently and collaboratively in cross-functional groups.

Skills and Competencies

Technical Skills & Competencies

Emergency Response Management
Proficiency Level
Develop Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans (EPRP) and collaborate with external entities.
4
Media Content Cataloguing
Proficiency Level
"Establish parameters, guidelines and conventions to drive the cataloguing and management of the organisation's content. "
4
Media Data Management
Proficiency Level
"Develop Media Data Management (MDM) systems to meet the organisation's content management requirements."
4

Generic Skills & Competencies

Resource Management
Proficiency Level
Establish strategies for the allocation and deployment of resources efficiently and effectively.
Advanced
Communication
Proficiency Level
"Articulate and discuss ideas and persuade others to achieve common outcomes "
Intermediate
Service Orientation
Proficiency Level
Anticipate customers needs and expectations, and elicit feedback from customers to improve service. Build relationships with customers to create and sustain customer loyalty.
Intermediate
Problem Solving
Proficiency Level
Identify less perceivable problems and use problem solving tools and techniques to solve the problems.
Intermediate
Digital Literacy
Proficiency Level
Use available software features to create and edit documents, customize templates and reports and evaluate online information.
Intermediate

Critical Work Functions and Key Tasks

Plan media infrastructure and operations

• Contribute to the development of strategy and future plans for media data management operations
• Develop operating plans for media data management operations including goals, focus areas and key metrics
• Prepare operations budget for media data management operations

Establish media data management systems

• Lead development of the data management vision, guiding principles, use cases, end user experiences, requirements and roadmap by collaborating with relevant stakeholders
• Define project scopes and craft business requirements document with inputs from relevant stakeholders
• Manage the procurement or development of the data management system 
• Define metadata, taxonomy and content rights standards, security and system requirements by collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Manage the budget and delivery schedule of the data management system
• Evaluate digital storage solutions, backup and other necessary adjustments for safe data storage by collaborating with the 
Information Technology (IT) team

Execute media data management operations

• Implement the data management system and user adoption programmer
• Promote the use of the data management system across the organization
• Manage the end-to-end digital asset lifecycle
• Recommend ways to enhance automation of metadata tagging process and content ingest
• Define the internal and external users of the data management system including managing permissions 
and special access requests and permissions
• Oversee all data management projects such as new user groups, new use-cases, integrations and new features

Manage the postimplementation of the data management system

• Prioritize requirements based on user feedback and unmet business objectives
• Review data management system generated reports and ensure that the business objectives are met 
• Conduct research on latest data management technology trends and innovations to ensure compatibility and relevance
• Perform annual audit to assess the data management system to make adjustments to achieve ease of use 
and smooth workflows internally and externally 
• Establish periodic data verification review processes to ensure data accuracy

Improve performance of media operations

• Analyse key metrics to evaluate the performance of media data management systems and operations
• Investigate major lapses and faults in media data management systems to identify factors responsible
• Develop measures to improve performance of media data management systems and operations
• Implement automated processes to improve the efficiency of media data management systems and operations

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