Records and Information Management Director Salary

There are four levels for records and information management directors, from entry-level to executive-level: Level 1 includes records clerks, records technicians, and senior records clerks; Level 2 includes records analysts, senior records analysts, and records coordinators/records specialists; Level 3 includes ERM administrators/ER architects, RIM supervisors, and RIM managers; and Level 4 includes RIM directors and executive officers.

Records and information management directors typically work for large companies and corporations and are tasked with managing records and keeping them organized in a professional manner, and requirements for this position include education and experience, relevant certificates, career mobility, and knowledge and skills in business functions, RIM practices, risk management, communications and marketing, information technology, and leadership.

Responsibilities of this position include overseeing the management of electronic or paper-based information, identifying appropriate records management resources, designing and developing filing systems and business classification schemes, setting up and reviewing documented record systems, establishing schedules, advising new management policies, standardizing information sources, responding to information inquiries, ensuring compliance with legislation and regulations, advising on complex legal and regulatory issues, preserving corporate memory and heritage, managing budgets and resources, and training and supervising records staff. (Copyright 2017 PayScale.com)

Records and Information Management Director Tasks

• Manage and oversee information and records life cycle, ensuring retention, backups, and purging.
• Manage special projects like data integration, and phase out of technologies, and development of new data fields.
• Train employees in information and records processes, standards, and policies.
• Oversee documentation of information assets and standardization of records.
• Lead efforts to improve records including taxonomy development, workflow changes, digitization, and database design.