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Coordinator Dutch Reproducibility Network

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“The Dutch Reproducibility Network (NLRN) is currently being developed with the goal to increase the quality and efficiency of research in the Netherlands by coordinating, supporting and strengthening initiatives on transparency and reproducibility across scholarly disciplines. NLRN is being structured following other reproducibility networks such as the UKRN.

Job description

The coordinator will be the driving force in further developing the network and in planning and organizing activities, working in close collaboration with the steering group and serving as a bridge between the steering group, network members and other stakeholders. The coordinator will organize activities such as symposia and webinars, take care of communication and dissemination within the network (e.g. via social media and the website), keep the website up to date, actively think about future activities and support the steering group in identifying and contacting relevant stakeholders. Additionally, the coordinator will support the steering group in the development and curation of training materials and in designing implementation strategies together with stakeholders from the network….”

Staff member Open Access Publication Services (m/f/d)

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“This is a permanent position with a weekly working time of 39.80 hours (full-time). The position is generally suitable for part-time work. The remuneration is based on pay scale group 9b TV-L, depending on the qualifications.

TIB operates the open access publisher TIB Open Publishing. This service offers professional publishing options for scholarly journals and conference proceedings and is part of the library’s strategic open access orientation.

Your tasks
You will work in the field of TIB Open Publishing, an Open Access publisher aimed at national and international target groups. You will support customers, in particular the editors of journals and conference proceedings as well as authors and reviewers, and contribute to the production of the publications….”

LICENSING SERVICES MANAGER

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“As a member of the California Digital Library’s Shared Collections program, the Licensing Services Manager is responsible for providing expertise and services related to all phases of license management for CDL and to librarians across the UC Libraries system. The position works to advance UC Libraries collection and service goals by securing advantageous license terms with publishers and other content providers in compliance with University principles and policies. In collaboration with CDL Shared Collections colleagues, UC librarians, and legal counsel, the position is responsible for license development and interpretation; the negotiation of license provisions with vendors; communicating and reporting on license information; and serving as the official contact for reporting and resolving license breaches.

The ideal candidate will use advanced professional concepts and organizational objectives to resolve complex problems in creative and effective ways; work on nuanced issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors; and exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. The position interfaces with and actively contributes to a full range of services offered by the CDL Shared Collections program, including but not limited to participating in the emerging transformative and open access agreement schema, supporting effective electronic resource strategies and workflows, analyzing usage data, and engaging with relevant UC-wide committees. The Licensing Services Manager reports to CDL’s Assistant Director of Systemwide Licensing and Collection Services….”

Community Engagement Manager, arXiv,

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“Responsibilities of the Community Engagement Manager primarily fall into three areas.

 

Manage Organization Communications (50%):

Serve as a creative communications strategist, leveraging emerging communications trends, research, and techniques to connect to key audiences and stakeholders around the globe; develop campaigns to support arXiv’s mission, vision, project goals, and brand identity.
Act as public relations point of contact for arXiv and engage with key stakeholders, such as journalists, media, and other academic institutions.
Assure exceptional integrity, quality and accuracy in communications; manage content creation for marketing materials (collateral, newsletters, press releases, digital content, social media and more).
Organize, schedule, and manage digital events, including webinars and workshops.
Develop annual reports for leadership groups, including arXiv Members, arXiv advisory committees, and Cornell stewardship.
Develop internal communications strategy to support staff in carrying out arXiv’s mission, vision, and project goals.
Coordinate with Cornell University’s communications team (within the Division of University Relations) to ensure alignment with university-wide media relations, branding and related communications protocols.

 

Manage Membership and Sponsorship (40%):

Develop, manage, and maintain successful relationships with arXiv stakeholders in academic libraries and library consortia, professional societies, research institutes, and other mission-aligned organizations to ensure a thriving membership and sponsorship program.
Develop a communication strategy and benefit package to maintain engagement with members, affiliates, and sponsors.
Cultivate relationships through in-person meetings, webinars, and other outreach and develop marketing materials.
Organize and supervise the invoicing workflow throughout the year to ensure timely payment from all members, sponsors and affiliates; liaise with colleagues across Cornell as needed for financial reporting.
Respond to current and prospective member inquiries regarding membership benefits, membership agreements, and usage data.

 

Fundraising Support (10%):

Organize and implement giving campaigns to solicit support from individual arXiv users.
Assist with grant writing and reporting….”

Job: Digital Publishing Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, US

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“…Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will manage editorial and production workflows including those related to publication metadata, digital archiving, and document transformation. The incumbent will act as part of the Library’s effort to offer high quality, open access publishing services to the Urbana-Champaign campus and beyond through the Illinois Open Publishing Network (https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/) and related scholarly communication efforts….”

Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian, Georgetown University | May 2023

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“The Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian develops, coordinates and promotes the growth of the Library’s scholarly communications programs and services, including outreach, training and support to faculty, students, and staff on copyright, fair use, open access, open education and scholarly publishing.  The incumbent also provides specialized research consultations and instruction services in these areas. The Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian supports digital scholarship by promoting the use of DigitalGeorgetown (DG), the Library’s institutional repository, as well as other scholarly communication tools provided by the Library. The incumbent advances the Library’s scholarly communication initiatives by developing and maintaining collaborative partnerships within the Library and with faculty, staff and students, in order to facilitate a seamless, interdisciplinary, and university-wide network supporting faculty and students in research publication and impact….”

Scholarly Communications Librarian

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Description

Join a team of collaborative and creative library faculty at Colby College! Be a part of the growing movement toward more open and inclusive scholarship and teaching. The Colby College Libraries invite applications for the position of Scholarly Communications Librarian.

Overview and Primary Objectives

The Scholarly Communications Librarian is a faculty librarian position with teaching responsibilities and is a member of the Digital Initiatives (DI) team. The Librarian serves as the Libraries’ expert on scholarly communication, including alternative publishing models, scholarly visibility and impact, online identity management, open educational resources, and equitable access to the College’s scholarly output. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will develop and implement educational programs, support metadata creation for digital assets, and serve as an advisor for researchers (as well as library staff) on scholarly communications and digital scholarship issues.

The Scholarly Communications Librarian will collaborate with the Digital Archives Librarian to manage and develop the College’s institutional repositories. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will also collaborate closely with colleagues in other departments, including Collections Management and Special Collections and Archives, on open access, metadata standards and the preservation of, and discovery and access to, the scholarly output of the College….”

What we are working on: 2023-04-28 | Invest in Open Infrastructure

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“…Want to join the IOI Team? We have four open vacancies. We are seeking talented individuals to fill four new open positions: Product Lead, Engagement Coordinator (Infrastructure), Research Data Analyst, and Django Developer. These new team members will support the further development of our Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs) prototype as well as the exploration of new models to attract additional investment into open infrastructure globally. These roles are fully remote – applicants worldwide can apply. Visit our website for a detailed look at the job descriptions and apply if interested!

We need your input to help shape our collective funding pilot. IOI is gearing up to launch the calls for proposals for a 130,000 USD pilot fund to support and increase the adoption of open, community-led infrastructure services for research and scholarship. As part of our resolve to advance more open, transparent, and participatory funding of open infrastructure worldwide, we are running a design survey to help further refine the calls for proposals for three areas, including grant size and eligibility. The deadline to participate in the survey is May 8, 2023, and we would love to hear from you!

Who we are talking to: Wole Abu, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, on potential mechanisms of engaging for-profit entities in Africa to reinvest in open infrastructure initiatives. Kim Parker and Martin Mogga, Research4Life, to learn more about their work in facilitating institutions in low-and middle-income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content as potential future collaborations between R4L and IOI. Amanda Casari, Google Open Source, on some emerging questions looking at funding and resourcing for open source software and infrastructure….”

Job: Project manager | OPERAS

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Job Summary

The Project Manager works closely with the Secretary General for the daily implementation and management of the OPERAS’ projects portfolio. The Project Manager will be primarily in charge of OPERAS’ coordinated projects and, on demand, support the coordination of OPERAS’ contribution to participated projects. The main tasks and responsibilities are centred around the day-to-day administration of the consortium, the monitoring of the resources, the development and implementation of the quality and risk management plans and consist of:

Leading preparation of the contractual documentation: grant agreement and consortium agreement;
Supporting the technical or scientific coordinator and the project boards (General Assembly, Project management boards), organising the meetings and writing minutes;
Implementing the consortium progress monitoring;
Coordinating, supervising and submitting the EU periodic reports (financial and technical);
Managing the project budget, distribution of the prefinancing, redistribution of budget in case of amendment;
Set up the necessary procedure for quality and risk management (only for coordinated projects);
Organising the EC review(s) in liaison with the project boards members;
Representing OPERAS vis à vis the EU project officer.

The Project Manager will also contribute to developing the project proposals and set up the Grant Agreement to launch project proposals granted. The Project Manager will be responsible for maintaining and evolving the project management processes as part of the Integrated Management System.

 

Job: Digital Repository Services Librarian | Iowa State University Library, US | April 2023

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“The Iowa State University Library is seeking applications for a dynamic and forward-thinking Repository Services Librarian who will work collaboratively within and outside of the Digital Scholarship and Initiatives (DSI) department to lead the digital repository unit. DSI is comprised of specialists that support digital collections, digital scholarship, and the digital repository. The Repository Services Librarian will manage the digital repository and supervise a staff of three in support of digital repository services and a platform which provides free, open access to digital materials that embody the scholarly, cultural, and creative activities of Iowa State University. Example services include the facilitated deposit of research material and publications as well as the maintenance of ISU research profiles and support for the ISU open access initiatives.   The Repository Services Librarian will be instrumental in the continued success of the digital repository, now in its 10th year, by liaising with participating repository faculty and staff, departments, and the Graduate College on the evolution and value of the digital repository and digital repository services. The Repository Services Librarian will evaluate programs, services, policies, and processes of the unit and will work collaboratively with other library units and departments to meet the goals of DSI and the library. As part of their work, the Repository Services Librarian will participate in discussions and working groups focused on library resource discovery, open scholarship and scholarly communication, and collection development….”

Job: Community Engagement Manager (editorial) | Crossref

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? Community Engagement Manager (editorial), working with the global community of scholarly editors at a time when research integrity is top of mind for our entire ecosystem. This is a classic community role for someone keen to cross over from managing or editing journals or books and perhaps make your volunteer work official. Activities will include program and project management, event and working group facilitation, communications and content creation. You’d be interacting with groups like the Asian Council of Science Editors, the European Association of Science Editors, and the Council of Science Editors, plus many more that you’d identify. It’s all about helping editors, who work hand-in-hand with authors, to think about metadata as signals of trust and better use available services, such as those for retraction management or plagiarism checking, and helping to define needs for emerging activity too, such as machine-generated content.

 

Job: Technical Community Manager | Crossref

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? Technical Community Manager, working with our ‘integrators’ so all repository/publishing platforms and plugins, all API users incl. managing contracts with subscribers, and generally helping a very nice bunch of RESTful API dabblers, both novice and intermediate. The goal is to offer more interactive engagement such as sprints, and more technical consultation to help the community with things like query efficiency, public data dump ingestion, etc. Thousands of users exist, from individual researchers and small academic tools to giant technology companies. Researching and analysing usage and building tools to meet their needs is key, so this role works closely with Product and R&D colleagues and likely needs a developer or developer-advocacy background.

 

PKP is hiring an Associate Director of Publishing Services – Public Knowledge Project

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“The Associate Director, Publishing Services provides operational direction for PKP’s Publishing Services (PKP|PS) activities, including leading a team of professional and support staff and supporting the development and growth of programs and services to position PKP|PS as a trusted service provider and leader in the field of scholarly publishing.

The role manages an annual operating budget and is responsible for establishing and ensuring that revenue and expense targets are met. As part of PKP’s strategic leadership team, the Associate Director is responsible for planning the long-term sustainability of PKP, including developing and implementing strategies to advance PKP priorities and opportunities, improve operations, and launch initiatives, products, and services. The role establishes processes for client engagement, business development, and service delivery, and reporting on PKP|PS activities….”

What we are working on: 2023-04-14 | Invest in Open Infrastructure

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“…Our team is growing – 4 new jobs available at IOI. To support the growth and development of COIs from an initial prototype to an integrated service that is representative of the open infrastructure landscape, we are recruiting for four new roles. The four roles available are Product Lead; Engagement Coordinator, Infrastructure; Research Data Analyst; and Django developer. All these roles are fully remote, allowing applicants worldwide to apply. The application deadline is May 15, 2023. For further information, visit our website.

IOI Team in Argentina for in-person events. Next week, our Engagement Lead Emmy Tsang and Research Data Analysts Tania Hernandez and Naomi Penfold will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the workshop on accelerating open science in Latin America organized by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Tania and Emmy will lead a participatory budgeting exercise to identify open infrastructure needs in Latin America. The trio will also be at csv,conf where Tania will be presenting on our funding trends work….”

Job: Member Experience Manager (end of play: May 1, 2023) | Crossref

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Do you want to help make research communications better in all corners of the globe? Come and join the world of nonprofit open infrastructure and be part of improving the creation and sharing of knowledge as our brand new Member Experience Manager.

Location: Remote and global (to overlap with colleagues in Indonesia and East Coast USA)
Remuneration: Approx. EUR 58,000 – 70,000 or local equivalent, depending on experience. Note this is a general guide (as there is no universal currency) and local benchmarking will take place before final offer.
Reports to: Head of Member Experience, Amanda Bartell
Timeline: Advertise and recruit in April/May; offer by end of May

About the role

This position is a mix of community and relationship management alongside business process management, data quality, and analytics; it’s a very varied role and ideal for an experienced generalist with a passion for collaboration and transparency.

You’ll be managing two membership specialists to help ensure our members have a smooth experience with us, with a particular focus on a carefully-managed application and onboarding process, reducing manual tasks, and making things more efficient and transparent wherever possible. You’ll be ensuring that our members understand the role that they and Crossref play in building the vision of a shared research nexus and helping them to join and contribute the best quality and quantity of metadata about their research with the global research community. You’ll be overseeing data integrity and reporting on trends to provide actionable insights. You’ll be active in the scholarly communications community, contributing to volunteer-led co-creation initiatives. And you’ll work hand-in-hand with community engagement colleagues to support key programs for members, sponsors, service providers, and metadata users.

Key responsibilities

Managing our small membership team of two member support specialists (one based in the UK, one based in Indonesia), along with three membership contractors.
Managing the new member onboarding process to ensure members have all the information they need to succeed.

Supporting the membership specialists by answering particularly involved or knotty questions through our support system (Zendesk), our Community Forum (Discourse), face-to-face (via zoom and in person), or on social media like our growing mastodon presence.
Making our membership application process as smooth as possible for new members, while ensuring that applicants have all the information they need to get the most out of their membership.
Identifying and implementing process improvements for a more efficient experience (including for our staff) by eliminating manual and intensive tasks where possible.
Managing our automated onboarding email program.

Working with long-term members to make the most of their membership and follow the member obligations

Providing virtual (and in-person) training, support, and metadata ‘health checks’, following up and triaging issues to other expert colleagues.
Identifying issues and working proactively with members to solve problems, including any who are not meeting their membership obligations.

Working with the membership specialists to ensure that our member data is accurate and up-to-date, and that our CRM system (Sugar) can meet the organisation’s reporting needs. Using the CRM reports to provide actionable insights on trends.
Being a key point of contact our finance team to help improve the experience for our members.
Supporting meeting our openness and transparence goals (see POSI) by exposing publicly all membership operations and activities.
Participating in community events and volunteer initiatives to maintain an awareness of community issues and providing guidance or co-creating shared resources.
Working hand-in-hand with community engagement colleagues to support key programs for sponsors, service providers, and metadata users – as these programs support all our members.
Helping to create and implement rollout plans for new features that will affect our community, such as new ways of logging in or interacting with our systems, changes to fees, or opportunities to participate in or test Crossref services and initiatives.

We especially encourage applications from people with backgrounds historically under-represented in research and scholarly communications.

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