Description
Open Science and Research Information Officer (Heidelberg, DE or Hinxton,
UK) – 2 positions available Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Staff Category: Staff Member
Contract Duration: 3 years (renewable)
Grading: 4, 5 or 6; depending on qualifications and experience
Closing Date: 19 September 2021
Reference Number: HD02025
EMBL is looking for two highly motivated Open Science and Research Information
Officers. These posts will be based in the EMBL Office for Scientific
Information Management, a new office with responsibility for the EMBL library,
open science support, and EMBL archive and records management.These two posts
will be responsible for supporting EMBL staff to follow open science best
practices through the administration of EMBL-wide processes and services,
advice and outreach activities, and monitoring these outputs for use in EMBL
reporting.
The two Open Science and Research Information Officers (RIOs) will be
responsible for supporting open science best practices for EMBL, across all
six EMBL sites. As OSIM is a new office at EMBL, this will require a flexible
approach and teamwork to deliver new services that will support EMBL staff to
make research outputs such as (publications, data, software) open at the
optimal time of the research lifecycle. EMBL has a unique context to deliver
open science best practices in the life sciences as, in addition to performing
research, EMBL runs major science facilities at several of its sites, and
hosts major community databases at EMBL-EBI, including, for example, the
European Nucleotide Archive and Europe PMC. These roles are therefore an
opportunity to support EMBL staff in delivering open science, but also to have
impact more broadly in the life sciences research community, as EMBL services
and training programmes are used widely in Europe and worldwide.
These roles will have particular responsibility for operating open access
publication workflows. As part of the OSIM team, the RIOs will promote and
monitor compliance with EMBL’s open science policy, sharing information as
required with colleagues across EMBL. The complex funding landscape at EMBL
means that a number of reporting requirements need to be met, including to
EMBL member states and to national funding organisations. While the emphasis
is currently on publications, we expect monitoring a wider range of research
outputs will become more important in the future.
These roles will form a hub for expertise on open science best practices at
EMBL. Close collaboration with others in the OSIM team, as well as pan-EMBL
networking will be required to deliver support, advice and services around
Open Science related topics for EMBL researchers and management. Communication
and advocacy on open science across EMBLwill therefore also be a part of this
role.
Your role
Duties and responsibilities:
particular, management of publications and related data with tools such as
ORCID, Europe PMC and Converis
report and present research information across all EMBL sites, as required
outputs
and Open Science Advocate for and promote Open Science across EMBL,
especially the EMBL Open Science Policy
for EMBL impact analysis and reporting Monitor compliance with EMBL open
science policies and support compliance with national funder policies
across skill sets, for example, the development of data management plan
development processes.
and software publication, FAIR principle implementation in the specific
EMBL context
and software
this into EMBL Guidelines development.
You have
Qualifications and Experience:
science, librarianship or a related field of study;
journal publisher, library, database, institutional repository, or funder
setting
aspects of research information management (for example, database ingest
and/or curation, CRIS systems, helpdesk ticketing systems)
pertaining to open science and effective research data management
with a variety of stakeholders
You might also have
Why join us
EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive
conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research organisation
with a very collegial and family friendly working environment. The
remuneration package comprises a competitive salary, a comprehensive pension
scheme, medical, educational and other social benefits, as well as financial
support for relocation and installation, including your family and the
availability of an excellent child care facility on campus.
What else you need to know
We are Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an
intergovernmental organisation performing scientific research in disciplines
including molecular biology, physics, chemistry and computer science. We are
an international, innovative and interdisciplinary laboratory with more than
1700 employees from many nations, operating across six sites, in Heidelberg
(HQ), Barcelona, Hinxton near Cambridge, Hamburg, Grenoble and Rome.
Please note that appointments on fixed term contracts can be renewed up to 9
years in total, depending on circumstances at the time of the review.
Both positions will report to the Head of the Office for Scientific
Information Management and can be placed either at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany or
EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, UK.
Applicants invited for interview will be asked to give a 15 minute
presentation that outlines the experience they will bring to this role (5
minutes) and how they will approach the role (10 minutes). Remote
interviews are expected to be held in the week beginning 4th October 2021.