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    Change your career, change lives.

    The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.

    The multi-award-winning Open University Library underpins the University mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. Our vision is to connect the whole OU Community with world class information, technology and award-winning expertise to facilitate knowledge creation.

    The role

    Flexible and remote working is an option. But you are required to attend Milton Keynes as required.

    The Open University is recruiting a Research Support Librarian/Officer.

    • A specialist role to support the growing area of scholarly communication including open access publishing, research data management and research metrics.
    • As part of the Research Support team develop and implement a research support strategy ensuring that the requirements of the University, researchers and external funders are met.
    • Provide advice and guidance on funder requirements for research data management, open access publications and research metrics.
    • To deliver resources and services to enable researchers to effectively develop and manage their research and scholarship outputs and maximise their impact, dissemination and visibility.
    • To promote and embody a positive attitude and behaviours, to encourage a future focused culture and champion the values of the organisation

    Skills and experience

    • A degree, or equivalent education, or work experience at a comparable level
    • Knowledge of the research lifecycle
    • An understanding of developments in scholarly communication
    • Experience of delivering workshops, training and developing training material
    • Able to use common software tools (e.g. MS Office)
    • Experience of collating, analysing and interpreting data

    The full summary of duties and skills required for the role can be found within the Job Description.

    What you get in return

    We have a strong commitment to providing training and development in and beyond your current role. This includes thorough induction into the organisation and regular reviews of your training and development needs.

    We also offer a great range of benefits that support our employees and their families for the long term. Staff Benefits include an attractive pension proposition and 33 days holiday per annum pro rata, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure days.

    Interview date

    • 5 September 2023