Open Research Manager

This new full-time post is available from 28th April 2025 on a permanent basis.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in job-sharing arrangements.

Summary of the role
This is an exciting time to be joining our Open Research team, you’ll play a key role in how we get a sustainable open access future, including responding to changes in funder and REF open access policies and helping our researchers do the right thing. Locally we are migrating our repository software to Figshare at the end of April and one of your first tasks will be to make sure we get the best out of our investment. We spend about £1.6 million each year on supporting open access through read and publish agreements, article processing charges and support for emerging open research models, getting value for money from this is increasingly important.

Open research is just one part of our wider research culture, and the library works in partnership with researchers and professional services colleagues. You will combine knowledge of how open research fits into research cultures with an ability to work with and influence academic and professional services colleagues at every level of the university and beyond.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification (available on the university's website, accessed by the 'Apply' button) for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campuses and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information
Please contact James Anthony-Edwards, j.anthony-edwards@exeter.ac.uk.

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