Open Data Steward & Research Repository Coordinator

Code4lib; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 58,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas Libraries seeks a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team in Austin. You will assist UT researchers with publishing data, develop guides, and deliver instruction to promote open scholarship and reproducibility.

Responsibilities include data curation, tooling automation, and coordinating with campus partners; report to the Head of Research Data Services. This role requires onsite work in Austin, TX.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in library science, data science, information studies or related data-focused field.
• Minimum of 4 years of research data experience in professional roles or graduate student experience.
• Experience with research data publication, data repositories, data curation, or research reproducibility.
• Familiarity with open scholarship and data management; programming in Python, R, or JavaScript.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills; ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for publishing research data and related outputs through consultations, workshops, and guides.
• Review data, metadata, code, and documentation contributed to the UT Austin Dataverse and the Texas Data Repository; provide curation support and develop scripted tools.
• Develop and maintain processes for tracking data publishing metrics to facilitate discovery of UT research outputs.
• Participate in professional development and contribute to campus and external professional groups to stay current with tools and methodologies for data sharing.
• Other related functions as assigned.

Skills

Python

R

JavaScript

Education

Graduate degree in library science / data science / information studies

Tools

Dataverse

GitHub

Texas Data Repository

Job description

The University of Texas Libraries seeks a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team in Austin. You will assist UT researchers with publishing data, develop guides, and deliver instruction to promote open scholarship and reproducibility.

Responsibilities include data curation, tooling automation, and coordinating with campus partners; report to the Head of Research Data Services. This role requires onsite work in Austin, TX.