Senior Data Manager (Documents)

Are you a digital archivist, metadata specialist, librarian, or knowledge manager looking to make a real-world impact?

At Climate Policy Radar, we're building a system that organises, connects, and makes global climate policy information discoverable and usable at scale.

This isn't a traditional library role - it's about applying your skills in taxonomy, metadata, and information organisation to a dynamic, data-driven environment.

About us

Climate Policy Radar is an independent non-profit building open, credible databases and AI-powered tools for climate, nature, and development action.

Our data and tools help governments, researchers, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector to understand and advance effective climate policies and deploy climate finance. Harnessing data science and AI - including pioneering applications of natural language processing in this field - we make previously unstructured, siloed data easier to find, understand, and act on.

We are a team of policy experts, engineers, data scientists, product thinkers, communicators, and operators. We care deeply about how we work - our values, culture, and ways of collaborating - as well as what we build. As part of that, we have embraced a flexible, hybrid approach to work, including a four-day workweek.

About the role

Climate Policy Radar aggregates document collections of laws and policies, litigation cases, submissions to UN multilateral environmental agreements, and other core document sets from expert data providers like UN agencies, research institutes, and multilateral organisations - to make them queryable and usable for a range of global users from parliamentarians to researchers to litigators.

We currently work with approximately fifteen data providers and plan to triple that number over the next two years as we grow into new domains (e.g. nature, development) and types of evidence (e.g. subnational laws and policies, international bilateral agreements).

We are looking for an experienced individual to own how external document collections are structured, integrated and maintained with CPR's systems as we scale.

This is a core strategic role within the Programmes team, working cross-functionally across the organisation. At its heart, the role sits at the intersection of document collection curation, organisation, and aggregation. You will define and govern CPR's document ingestion processes and metadata schema requirements, working closely with Product and Engineering on implementation, and with subject matter experts and Partnerships and Operations on provider onboarding and relationship management.

You will ensure that document collections are integrated into CPR's systems in a way that is structured, consistent, scalable, and usable for search and analysis.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the aggregation of external document collections into CPR's systems, ensuring they are structured, consistent and usable.
• Define, apply and maintain metadata standards, schema requirements, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies, translating organisational and product needs into clear requirements for Engineering implementation.
• Evaluate and onboard new sources and datasets. Work alongside the partnerships team to support highly-respected external document collection curators to add documents datasets of laws, policies, litigation cases, climate finance projects, UN submissions and reports to our database.
• Anticipate and manage schema evolution as external providers update or expand their data (for example, adding new fields or changing formats), ensuring CPR systems adapt smoothly.
• Create and carry out data quality processes, including identifying duplication, improving metadata completeness, and maintaining consistency across collections.
• Ensure that content gaps raised by user feedback or analysis feed back into collection priorities and schema development.
• Document processes and standards so workflows are repeatable and scalable.
• Track and communicate the impact of data ingestion efforts, including metrics on database coverage, data quality and update frequency.

What You'll Bring:

• At least 10 years of professional experience, with at least 5 years of experience managing large or complex digital document collections.
• Strong experience designing and governing metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies, and taxonomy development with the ability to make informed decisions about data governance, structure, content quality standards, consistency and evolution over time.
• Demonstrated proficiency in structuring and maintaining aggregated datasets from multiple external sources, ensuring clarity, interoperability, and scalability.
• Experience evaluating external datasets for structure, completeness and long-term maintainability (you will be supported by domain experts).
• A track record of improving processes - designing workflows that are reproducible, well-documented, and resilient to change.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging with technical and non-technical audiences and appetite to work cross-functionally.
• Ideally, some line-management experience (though extensive team management experience is not required).

We are a mission driven organisation, and work best with people who have strong alignment with our values. We care about them deeply.

We actively encourage applicants from diverse and historically underrepresented backgrounds.

Interview process

Our interview process has a couple of stages, and we try to keep them as swift as possible. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the process of application and selection, please let us know.

1. 15 minute screening with Head of People, where, how much + vibe check
2. 30 minute task - this is a stage to test competency. We will need help to design and assess the task
3. 30 minutes - review task with tech (maybe product) team and programme team (assess competency).
4. One-hour interview with the Chief Programmes Officer and a member of the programme team (behavioural/ fit)

We've all felt the anxiety of waiting to hear back from interviews, so we will contact you no later than 2 working days after each interview to let you know if you will be progressing.

Salary and benefits:

• Salary between £60,000 to £75,000 depending on experience
• A deep commitment to employee wellbeing, including policies such as four-day workweek (same pay, Fridays off), generous leave, and a wellbeing allowance
• A vibrant, collaborative, empathetic work culture that thrives on innovation and the impact of our work
• A hybrid work model that encourages collaboration while providing flexibility. For team members in London, this means two days a week in the office

Right to Work in the UK

Unfortunately, we are currently unable to sponsor work visas. Only applicants legally authorised to work in the UK will be considered.

Equal opportunities

At Climate Policy Radar, We are committed to fostering a workplace that is inclusive and equitable. Climate Policy Radar welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and does not tolerate discrimination in any aspect of employment. We actively work to ensure equal opportunities for all, regardless of heritage, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, relationship choices, or criminal history, in line with legal requirements. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in line with legal requirements.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation in the process of application and selection, please let us know.