Open Access Librarian

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974. Grade: 7

'Open House' Drop In Session: We will be holding an ‘open house’ drop in session at the University’s Exchange building at the café, in Centenary Square, Birmingham, between 10am and 5pm on Monday 15th July 2024. If you’re interested in working at the University of Birmingham and perhaps have a few questions, this is an opportunity to meet colleagues in the Recruitment team. It will be a relaxed and informal event – you can drop in at any time.

Role Summary

We are seeking an enthusiastic proponent of open research to join our Scholarly Communications Services team as Open Access Librarian. The role is integral to Library and Learning Resources support offer to University of Birmingham researchers. The successful candidate will provide expert advice to researchers and research administrators, helping them navigate the increasingly complex options for effective dissemination of research outputs. They will administer approximately £1.5m per annum of dedicated open access funding; maintain oversight of our research publications repository service; and support strategic alignment in the open access space with funder requirements and emerging best practice. Initial priorities will include supporting the implementation of the University’s Rights Retention Policy and revising procedures to align with the new REF open access policy.

Main Duties

• Provides advice to researchers and administrators on their options for making research outputs open access within the broader context of local and external open access policies, as well as generally accepted good open research practice.
• Maintains awareness of relevant open access policy developments in the UK and internationally, alerting Library colleagues and senior University stakeholders to significant changes, and supporting the communication of such changes via appropriate channels (including web pages, development and delivery of presentations and workshops, and messaging via other engagement channels)
• Maintains close links with internal and external stakeholders concerned with the dissemination and impact of research publishing and open access, by supporting collaboration, joining networks, taking an active role in workshops and meetings and presenting work at conferences.
• Proposes changes to, and support the implementation of, efficient and user-friendly open access processes in response to a rapidly moving external policy environment; and to new open research infrastructure developments

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications) plus relevant practical experience - where no equivalent qualification is held significant practical relevant experience and expertise in a series of progressively more demanding roles will be required.
• Evidence of literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write clearly, and to produce and analyse information and data.
• Proficient in the use of standard office software, 
• Experience using financial, arithmetic and charting functions in MS Excel or similar to manage and report on complex data sets
• Substantial experience in a customer facing role in a library, research administration, publishing or similar position

Informal enquiries to Mike Dainton M.Dainton@bham.ac.uk 

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