Open Research Data Coordinator & Publishing Specialist

utaustin; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas Libraries seeks a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team at UT Main Campus. The role supports researchers by publishing data, promoting FAIR practices, and building guides and workshops to facilitate open, reproducible research.

You will work with campus partners to curate deposits in the Texas Data Repository, develop scripted tools, and ensure data and related products align with FAIR principles.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in library science, data science, information studies, or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of research data experience.
• Experience with research data publication, data repositories, data curation, or research reproducibility.
• Familiarity with open scholarship and data management.
• Familiarity with Python, R, or JavaScript.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for publishing research data and related outputs, including consultations and workshops.
• Maintain relationships and partnerships within UT Libraries and UT researchers who work with data.
• Review data, metadata, code, and documentation in the UT Austin Dataverse and provide curation support.
• Develop scripted tools to facilitate researcher use of the repository and provenance.
• Track UT researcher data publishing metrics to improve discoverability of research products.
• Participate in professional development and campus/external groups to stay current with tools and methods for data sharing.
• Other related functions as assigned.

Skills

Research data management

Programming (Python, R, JS)

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Collaborations

Open scholarship advocacy

Education

Graduate degree in library science, data science, information studies, or related field

Tools

Dataverse

GitHub

Job description

The University of Texas Libraries seeks a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team at UT Main Campus. The role supports researchers by publishing data, promoting FAIR practices, and building guides and workshops to facilitate open, reproducible research.

You will work with campus partners to curate deposits in the Texas Data Repository, develop scripted tools, and ensure data and related products align with FAIR principles.