Research Data Coordinator: Open Scholarship & FAIR Data

Phase2 Technology; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 64,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Texas Libraries is seeking a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team. The team's mission is to increase the global impact of the university by making research outputs openly accessible.

In alignment with this mission, the team's primary responsibilities are to assist researchers in adopting computational approaches to teaching and scholarship, maintain the largest open collections of UT-created scholarship and data, and promote the adoption of open

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in library science, data science, information studies or any field of science or humanities research involving data.
• Minimum of 4 years of research data experience through professional roles and/or graduate student experience.
• Experience with research data publication, data repositories, data curation, or research reproducibility.
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for open scholarship and research data management.
• Familiarity with one or more programming languages like Python, R, or JavaScript.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a professional, team-oriented attitude, and the ability to establish positive and productive collaborations.
• Ability to communicate effectively, in person and in writing, including a demonstrated facility in conveying technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Enthusiasm for continual learning and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for publishing research data and related outputs by offering consultation sessions, responding to researcher questions, leading workshops, giving presentations, developing resource guides, and other necessary activities.
• Maintain relationships and build partnerships within UT Libraries and across UT's community of researchers who work with data.
• Review data, metadata, code, and documentation contributed to the UT Austin Dataverse in the Texas Data Repository (TDR), provide curation support to help protect sensitive data and foster research reproducibility, develop scripted tools to facilitate researcher use of the repository, and serve as institutional liaison to the Texas Data Repository Steering Committee.
• Develop and maintain processes for tracking UT researcher data publishing metrics to facilitate discovery of UT research products.
• Participate in professional development and serve as an active contributor to campus-level and external professional groups to maintain an awareness of current tools and methodologies for research data sharing.
• Other related functions as assigned.

Skills

Programming (Python, R, or JavaScript)

Open scholarship & data management

Interpersonal communication

Education

Graduate degree in library science / data science / information studies

Tools

Dataverse

Metadata standards

Git/GitHub

Job description

The University of Texas Libraries is seeking a Research Data Coordinator to join the Research and Scholarship team. The team's mission is to increase the global impact of the university by making research outputs openly accessible.

In alignment with this mission, the team's primary responsibilities are to assist researchers in adopting computational approaches to teaching and scholarship, maintain the largest open collections of UT-created scholarship and data, and promote the adoption of open