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Information manager
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Also advertised as Business Information Manager · Health Information Manager · Digital Information Manager · Police Freedom Of Information Manager
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1From this job to a course
The qualifications matched to this job
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The units you would start with
Built for Information manager
4 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.
- Managing Digital Information Level 4
- Management of Information Level 2
- Using and managing information Level 2
- Promote Effective Handling of Information in Care Settings Level 3
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2What this role really is
An information manager keeps critical project information accurate, secure and usable across construction, engineering and infrastructure work.
- Define digital information needs aligned with organizational requirements
- Identify relevant potential sources of digital information
- Direct or signpost others to appropriate digital information sources
- Select and use various software applications to access digital information
- Configure browser settings to meet personal needs
- Control and refine search results using suitable techniques
- Select and retrieve digital information for intended purposes
- Manage and share information using content curation tools
- Organize and manipulate information types (image libraries, playlists, etc.)
- Configure personal information management tools for personal use
- Handle digital information responsibly, adhering to legislation
- Review information suitability and reliability against organizational requirements
- Clarify the information required for tasks
- Access and manipulate relevant information sources
- Locate appropriate information efficiently
- Extract relevant information for use
- Identify pertinent information for colleagues
- Organize and record information for usability
3What you’ll use
What you’ll use
Skills this role draws on
Technical
- Proficiently apply regulations including data protection, standards, guidelines and quality requirements as they pertain to information process and output
- Assist with the operation and maintenance of a Common Data Environment (CDE) and ensure the (CDE) maintains integrity and follows agreed protocols and that data remains secure
- Establish processes and accurately analyse, audit, verify and validate data as being accurate, appropriate, attributable, authentic and relevant according to protocols
- Evaluate and make recommendations around information work processes, quality improvement and future resource planning for information management requirements
- Identify and manage risk, put in place mitigating actions to minimise risk data integrity and security
- Draft work plans, strategies, delegate responsibilities and work instructions defining the scope of information management that comply with aims, objectives, planned milestones and organisation procedure
- Validate, manage, disseminate and store information throughout all stages of a project or asset
- Design and embed consistent data control processes and workflows accounting for status, maturity, version control, revision control, audit history and approval processes
- Advise on the implications of security accreditation, ISO27001, PAS 1192 Part 5 and industry specific requirements such as List N (Nuclear) and List X (Defence) and information classification
- Establish and consistently implement project and asset systems including specification requirements, definition of processes, configuration and appropriate training plans
- Prepare and deliver timely, accurate and clear written and verbal reports
- Define and implement solutions to information sharing and storage problems
- Evaluate requirements and provide solutions for embedding contractual and regulatory requirements
- Define and manage processes for staged and progressive handover of information and structured formats in line with delivery schedules, duly verified to meet quality acceptability requirements
- Effectively use a range of solutions and formats for the creation, dissemination, storage, validation and merging of information, ensuring secure access and effective integration
- Prepare and deliver effective training on information management to internal and external stakeholders, monitor the effectiveness of this training and reflect on feedback to inform continuous quality improvement within the scope of responsibility
- Estimate resources, manpower and associated costs to ensure compliance with baseline and changes to scope for future development and innovation requirements
- Apply principles of effective line management in line with organisation practice
- Reflect and evaluate own work and its impact on the organisation to plan for improved performance
Functional
- Regulations, data protection, protocols, standards, and guidelines relating to effective management and control of information and how they are applied in the organisation
- Understanding of the concept of the Common Data Environment (CDE) as the primary source of information used by stakeholders to collect, manage and disseminate information, whether this is through one or multiple systems of record
- Information storage and exchange processes, systems and outputs within a team and across a project and asset. Principles of the mechanisms for formal and informal information distribution, whether this is complex models (such as 3D) or documentation/data (using mechanisms like COBie), use of workflow for digital delivery of information through business processes, and information types and how/where these are stored
- The details and implications of security accreditation, ISO27001, PAS 1192 Part 5 and industry specific requirements such as List N (Nuclear) and List X (Defence) and information classification such as sensitive and classified
- How to design and implement project management and asset management systems incorporating specification of requirement, definition of process, configuration and approach
- Types and styles of communication and business reports, presentations and training events
- Basic engineering, construction, asset, procurement and operational systems and the role they play in the execution of projects and how information flows between these systems
- Understanding of information standards as they relate to implementation and compliance of requirements and how these might impact systems that manage the CDE
- Range of solutions and formats for the design, procurement, creation, building, operation, storage, validation, dissemination, inter-operability and merging of information and to provide secure access and integration
- Line management practice and principle and how they are applied in the organisation
- Estimation and budget management techniques that ensure income and expenditure
- Processes to securely hand over information in a manner that supports the future management of the asset
- Scope of responsibilities for the management of information
- Practice and principle of allocation of duties and work scheduling and how they operate in the organisation
- Contractual and commercial implications relating to the management of information
- Principles of risk management and processes for mitigating risk
- Concept of information planning, what is required and at what lifecycle stage
- Supply chain competency assessment to meet information delivery requirements
- The importance of reflection and evaluation of own work and their impact on the organisation
Ways of working
- Act professionally, show commitment to the industry and employer and work collaboratively across multiple disciplines
- Demonstrate analytical skills to effectively solve problems
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with clients, internal and external stakeholders and colleagues at all levels
- Demonstrate a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and act ethically with integrity and respect
- Committed to lead, manage and coach others effectively
- Maintain a focus on the end result and be flexible while adopting a lean and agile approach
- Foster a safe, secure and healthy working environment through personal responsibility and behaviour
- Effective self-manage, prioritise and proactively approach work and continuous professional development
- Flexible to changing working environment and demands, resilient under pressure
- Adopt a reflective approach to evaluating own work and its impact on the organisation to plan for improved performance
- Maintain an open mind, be inquisitive and apply learning to take advantage of innovation and new methods of working
4The pathway
The pathway
Getting in, in the UK
Ways in
- Apprenticeship: Information manager (Level 4) — Skills England standard ST0762
5Pay and demand
ONS's coding index maps “Information manager” to more than one occupation, so there is no one median to quote. Rather than pick, here is each one it could be, with its own figure:
- Health services and public health managers and directors £61,573 a year
- Business, research and administrative professionals n.e.c. £58,341 a year
- IT managers £56,438 a year
- Research and development (R&D) managers £55,519 a year
ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, from the April 2025 survey, about six months old when published, as ASHE always is, under the Open Government Licence.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Managing Digital Information, worked against Information manager.
Applied to your work in Information manager
Given the learning outcome and assessment criteria, the unit appears relatively simple in depth. Therefore, I will generate 2-3 learning objectives. 1. To enable the learner to identify and categorise different types of digital information commonly held by organisations. 2. To enable the learner to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of various information systems used for managing digital information. 3. To enable the learner to determine the suitability of information systems based on organisational needs and the types of digital information involved.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time.
- Proficiently apply regulations including data protection, standards, guidelines and quality requirements as they pertain to information process and output
- Assist with the operation and maintenance of a Common Data Environment (CDE) and ensure the (CDE) maintains integrity and follows agreed protocols and that data remains secure
- Establish processes and accurately analyse, audit, verify and validate data as being accurate, appropriate, attributable, authentic and relevant according to protocols
- Evaluate and make recommendations around information work processes, quality improvement and future resource planning for information management requirements
- Identify and manage risk, put in place mitigating actions to minimise risk data integrity and security
- Draft work plans, strategies, delegate responsibilities and work instructions defining the scope of information management that comply with aims, objectives, planned milestones and organisation procedure
- Validate, manage, disseminate and store information throughout all stages of a project or asset
- Design and embed consistent data control processes and workflows accounting for status, maturity, version control, revision control, audit history and approval processes
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