Open Research Data Specialist — Reproducibility Leader

Digital Library Federation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 58,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Texas Libraries seeks a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team at UT Austin. The role supports researchers in publishing data and related outputs, offering consultations, workshops, and resource guides to promote open scholarship and reproducibility.

The coordinator will work with campus partners, build tools and scripted processes, lead instructional programming, and help manage data curation and analytics in the Texas Data Repository.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in library science, data science, information studies, or related data-focused field.
• Minimum of 4 years of research data experience.
• Experience with research data publication, data repositories, data curation, or reproducibility.
• Familiarity with open scholarship and data management.
• Experience with Python, R, or JavaScript.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Commitment to continual learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for publishing research data and outputs through consultations, workshops, and guides.
• Review data, metadata, code, and documentation contributed to the UT Austin Dataverse in the Texas Data Repository, provide curation support and tools.
• Develop scripted tools to facilitate researcher use of the repository and act as liaison to the Steering Committee.
• Develop and maintain processes for tracking UT researcher data publishing metrics.
• Participate in professional development and contribute to campus-level and external groups.
• Other related functions as assigned.

Skills

Python

R

JavaScript

Education

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

Tools

Dataverse

Job description

University of Texas Libraries seeks a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team at UT Austin. The role supports researchers in publishing data and related outputs, offering consultations, workshops, and resource guides to promote open scholarship and reproducibility.

The coordinator will work with campus partners, build tools and scripted processes, lead instructional programming, and help manage data curation and analytics in the Texas Data Repository.