CMS Content Strategist — Editorial Governance & Migration

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

RESPEC is seeking a Content Strategist to lead digital content strategy, taxonomy architecture, governance, migration planning, and staff enablement to ensure the GeoInfo web presence remains sustainable after launch. You will collaborate with the delivery team, program directors, subject matter experts, and product managers to establish standardized editorial policies and actionable training resources.

This role focuses on sitemap and taxonomy design, metadata schemas, and structured CMS

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional content strategy experience with governance and migration planning.
• Proven success delivering content strategies for large, content-rich websites or platforms.
• Advanced expertise in governance, editorial lifecycles, and decentralized publishing.
• Experience drafting taxonomies, metadata schemas, and modular content types for CMS.
• Ability to translate technical material into audience-focused content models and guidelines.
• Strong portfolio of governance artifacts, SOPs, playbooks, and staff documentation.

Responsibilities

• Establish comprehensive content standards for authors, reviews, tagging, and retirement.
• Diagram end-to-end editorial workflows from drafting to archiving.
• Design organizational taxonomies, vocabularies, metadata schemas, and CMS components.
• Author a Content Management Handbook / Playbook with SOPs and workflows.
• Create a phase-based Content Migration Plan including inventory and deduplication.
• Support content ingestion and mapping from legacy GeoInfo content to target systems.
• Guide content optimization for high-visibility landing pages and portals.
• Set up multi-tier editorial permissions and role matrices.
• Advise leadership on staffing models for post-launch governance.
• Develop a CMS Training Manual and deliver live training for authors/editors.

Skills

Content strategy

Editorial governance

Taxonomy/metadata architecture

Migration planning

CMS design (Drupal/Wagtail)

Editorial workflows

SOPs & playbooks

Stakeholder facilitation

Public-sector / higher ed experience

Tools

Drupal

Wagtail

Job description

RESPEC is seeking a Content Strategist to lead digital content strategy, taxonomy architecture, governance, migration planning, and staff enablement to ensure the GeoInfo web presence remains sustainable after launch. You will collaborate with the delivery team, program directors, subject matter experts, and product managers to establish standardized editorial policies and actionable training resources.

This role focuses on sitemap and taxonomy design, metadata schemas, and structured CMS