Records Specialist

Day-to-day tends to involve processing records, supporting retrieval requests, managing retention schedules, supporting audits or legal holds, and coordinating with departments on records-related questions. The role often becomes the institutional knowledge for how records actually work — what categories things get coded to, where the gaps are, and what retention applies when.

Coordination tends to happen with departments across the organization, legal counsel, IT (for electronic records and systems), auditors, and sometimes regulators. Legal holds and litigation support are real parts of the work — when records become evidence, the discipline of records management matters intensely.

People who tend to thrive here are methodical, detail-oriented, and comfortable with the structured discipline of records work. If you find document-heavy work tedious or want creative roles, the focus can feel narrow. If you find satisfaction in being the careful keeper of organizational records that document what actually happened, the role offers steady, increasingly important work — particularly as electronic records and information governance grow more complex.