Summary

Job Context

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Job Responsibilities

1. Lead and oversee the development and delivery of data management services, ensuring delivery of support to researchers and recommend improvements to services based on Northwestern research requirements. Oversee and maintain related documentation, including internal and user-facing guides and service information.
2. Understand data management plan and public access compliance with federal funding requirements, specifically requirements outlined by the National Institute of the Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF).
3. Understand appropriate discipline-specific repositories for the curation of data sets to assure compliance with federal mandates.
4. Provide training, consultation, and outreach related to research data management policies and best practices to the Northwestern research community. Specifically, guidance and discussion on the best practices surrounding data management plans (DMPs), finding data for reuse (both open and licensed), data documentation and organization, sharing research data openly to increase collaboration and reproducibility of research results.
5. Seek out opportunities to make data accessible to low-code and less-technical audiences.
6. Meet with researchers to identify their data management needs; provide recommendations and assistance to meet those needs. Communicate unmet needs to Libraries leadership and Libraries partners.
7. Facilitate use and promotion of existing resources for data storage, movement, organization, analysis and management such as Research Data Storage Service (RDSS), DMPTool, SharePoint, and Dryad data repository and other related technologies.
8. Integrate good practices from library sciences (including library analytics, digital collections) and related fields to help guide the standardization of datasets, models and documentation.
9. Provide guidance and instruction on choosing and using appropriate data management tools and platforms and data management policies and initiatives as they pertain to the Northwestern research community.
10. Work as part of a collaborative effort across departments to design, update, and implement data management services. Clearly communicate project status and updates project team as appropriate.
11. Act as the as the primary contact for subject specialists within the Libraries and research community on questions of data management; contribute to data repository development and related work in the Research Services workgroup; and work collaboratively with service units in the libraries, other University units, and schools.
12. Identify and develop relationships with the Northwestern research community and peers at other institutions to facilitate collaborations, understand new research trends, and improve existing support. Represent Northwestern in consortia and national initiatives related to data management, Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and others.

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Experience Requirements

• 1 - 2 years

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor/Honors

Skills

• Coordination, teamwork, self-starter with excellent project management skills Ability to speak clearly and effectively before large groups when teaching and demonstrating techniques Ability to maintain a friendly, enthusiastic, and positive attitude Successful completion of a Master’s degree in library science or related field such as Data Science or Information Science. Demonstrate learning aptitude of emerging technologies that apply to library services and operations.

Age

• 23 - 35 Age

Additional Requirements

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Compensation & Other Benefits

• - Mobile Bill , Tour , Holidays , Performance Bonus
• - Salary Review: Half Yearly

Work place

• Work At Office

Employment Status

• Full Time

Gender

• Male

Job Location

• United States