EMBL is looking for a highly motivated Research Information Officer. Thesis post 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. This post will be responsible for monitoring EMBL research outputs (publications, data, software) for use in reporting and supporting EMBL staff through the administration of EMBL-wide processes and services related to publishing, Open Science and Open Access.
Your role
The Research Information Officer 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. Moreover, the Research Information Officer will be responsible for the management of article processing charges (APC), advice and promotion on ORCID and guidance on data management plans (DMP) for researchers across all six EMBL sites.
Together with the Open Science Officer, this role 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 Access and Open Science related topics for EMBL researchers and management.
As OSIM is a new office at EMBL, the role will require a flexible but structured 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.
- 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
- Administer publication workflows for researchers across all six EMBL sites such as the management of article processing charges
- Manage the input and quality control of metadata around EMBL research outputs
- Provide consultation, expertise and training for EMBL staff on Open Access publishing
- 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.
- Advice and training for EMBL researchers on the handling of research data and software
Closing date: 14 January 2022
You have
Qualifications and Experience
- Degree in information science, librarianship or a related field of study;
- Experience in a role related to research information management; for example, in a journal publisher, library, database, institutional repository, or funder setting
- Hands on experience using software and tools required for one or more aspects of research information management (for example, database ingest and/or curation, CRIS systems, helpdesk ticketing systems)
- Demonstrable broad knowledge of infrastructures, resources and policies pertaining to open science and effective research data management
- Ability to work independently within a team setting
- Working knowledge of English is necessary;
You might also have
- Good working knowledge of German or another European language is advantageous
- Knowledge of the science and publishing system, especially in the life sciences, will be considered an advantage.
What else you need to know
We are Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation performing scientific research in disciplines including molecular biology, physics, chemistry and computer science. We are an international, innovative and interdisciplinary laboratory with more than 1700 employees from many nations, operating across six sites, in Heidelberg (HQ), Barcelona, Hinxton near Cambridge, Hamburg, Grenoble and Rome.
Please note that appointments on fixed term contracts can be renewed up to 9 years in total, depending on circumstances at the time of the review.
The Research Information Officer will report to the Head of the Office for Scientific Information Management and can be placed either at EMBL Heidelberg, Germany or EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, UK (please indicate your preference in your application).
Applicants invited for interview will be asked to give a 15 minute presentation that outlines the experience they will bring to this role (5 minutes) and how they will approach the role (10 minutes). Remote interviews are expected to be held in the week beginning 24th January 2022.
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