For our client – European Agency in Brussels,
We are looking for ICT Technical Consultant for Agency at EC
– Home office
– Attractive daily rate
Context of the request and Nature of the tasks
Provision of technical consultancy services for the coordination and delivery of software tools, extraction pipelines, technical analysis and preparation and support of annotation campaigns for Acquis Management.
The tasks and activities of the consultant may include:
· managing annotation campaigns and assignments for annotators i.e. planning, reviewing and reporting status about annotation activities;
· coordinating and supporting annotation methodology, annotation guidelines, codebooks or equivalent guidance material, reference corpus preparation, software tools, quality checks and analysis of annotation outputs;
· coordinating and supporting change management processes for codebook and legal content annotation methodologies, software tools and coordinating related impact analysis activities with support for annotators;
· coordinating and contributing to the elaboration, implementation, integration and delivery of legal obligation information extraction pipelines and related software tools;
· coordinating and delivering analysis of large legal, institutional or technical textual corpora using appropriate Natural Language Processing, software tools, corpus analysis, linguistic analysis or legal content analysis methodologies;
· coordinating and delivering analysis, modelling, documentation and improvements to IT workflows for processing data, metadata and related assets;
· coordinating and supporting validation, testing and quality control of annotated datasets, reference corpora and data conversion outputs;
· coordinating, gathering and analysing business needs and providing advice to business and technical stakeholders;
· coordinating and preparing technical, methodological, functional and user-oriented documentation;
· participating in project meetings and contributing to coordination, reporting, follow-up of tasks and project documentation.
Education:
• Master’s degree or equivalent in linguistics, computational linguistics, language technologies, information science, data science, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, computer science, or a related field.
Languages
• Very good knowledge of English (Level C1 – Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
• Good knowledge of French (Level B2 – Common European Framework of Reference for Languages or native).
Experience:
· Minimum two years of professional experience relevant to the requested profile.
· Experience shall include:
=> at least one year in the design, implementation, testing, coordination or delivery follow-up of software tools, extraction pipelines, validation workflows or data-processing workflows;
=> at least one year in Natural Language Processing (NLP), linguistic analysis or data analysis applied to large textual corpora;
=> at least one year in annotation methodology, annotation guidelines, codebook or reference corpus design, quality control, validation, testing or analysis of annotated/reference datasets;
=> at least two years in terminology repositories, thesauri, taxonomies, ontologies, data and metadata modelling or knowledge representation;
=> at least six months in requirements gathering, stakeholder needs analysis, stakeholder support, task follow-up, reporting or preparation/support of methodological, functional or technical documentation.
Specific experience – > Min mandatory experience (number of months)
Data Modelling and Knowledge Representation
– Terminology repositories, thesauri, taxonomies or ontologies – (24)
– Data and metadata modelling / knowledge representation – (24)
– Standards, technologies or tools for data and metadata modelling – (12)
Natural Language Processing and Data Analysis
– Natural Language Processing, corpus linguistics, text mining or linguistic analysis methods applied to textual corpora (12)
– Data analysis methodologies for legal, institutional or technical corpora (12)
– Python, R or comparable tools/languages for the design, implementation, coordination, testing, automation or reporting of data processing, extraction pipelines, validation workflows or related software tools (12)
Annotation Campaigns and Data Quality
– Annotation methodology, guidelines, codebook or reference corpus design (12)
– Quality control, validation, testing or analysis of annotated / reference datasets and related resources (12)
Legal / Domain-Specific Data Work
– Legal, technical or institutional corpus analysis (12)
– Documentation writing: methodological, functional or technical (12)
Functional Analysis and Stakeholder Support
– Requirements gathering, stakeholder needs analysis, task follow-up, reporting or project documentation support in data, metadata or annotation-related projects (6)
– Advisory/support role to business users or customers (12)
Office Productivity Tools
– Microsoft Office or equivalent productivity tools (12)
Service delivery: Home Office / Near site