Closing date: 19 September 2021

Contract duration: 3 years (renewable)

Grading: 4, 5 or 6; depending on qualifications and experience

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.

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Duties and responsibilities:

Operation of EMBL’s research information management systems, in particular, management of publications and related data with tools such as ORCID, Europe PMC and Converis
Develop and implement workflows and procedures to create, store, manage, report and present research information across all EMBL sites, as required
Manage the input and quality control of metadata around EMBL research outputs
Provide consultation, expertise and training for EMBL staff on Open Access and Open Science Advocate for and promote Open Science across EMBL, especially the EMBL Open Science Policy
Provide information on EMBL publications and create reports, as required, for EMBL impact analysis and reporting Monitor compliance with EMBL open science policies and support compliance with national funder policies
Coordinate with colleagues in the OSIM to deliver on projects that span across skill sets, for example, the development of data management plan development processes.
Coordinate with colleagues across EMBL to advise on conditions for data and software publication, FAIR principle implementation in the specific EMBL context
Advice and training for EMBL researchers on the handling of research data and software
Keep up-to-date with open science best practices and challenges, and feed this into EMBL Guidelines development.

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Closing date: 19 September 2021

Contract duration: 3 years (renewable)

Grading: 4, 5 or 6; depending on qualifications and experience

Reference number: HD02025

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Qualifications and Experience:

PhD and/or Master’s degree, or comparable in life sciences, inform