Open Access Advocacy Librarian (52521)

"The Information Services Directorate (ISD) wishes to appoint an Open Access (OA) Advocacy Librarian to work in partnership with research-active academic colleagues encouraging them to reshape their publication habits, thus ensuring their compliance with the Gold/Author Pays OA objectives set by the Research Councils UK (RCUK). The post holder will provide training, advice and support to units/departments based on a combination of practical and theoretical knowledge of the field of OA publishing and repository work as well as training the team of Institutional repository Support Assistants. S/He will also work with colleagues in Research & Knowledge Exchange Services (RKES) to advocate and achieve full OA compliance across the University. You will need sound financial experience of budget management, taking responsibility for managing the RCUK and other OA grants and ensuring that OA procedures are fully embedded. You will also have an understanding of the full range of contemporary OA compliance environments being able to explain, for example, how RCUK and/or Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) compliance relates to other compliance regimes, including HEFCE’s separately articulated OA requirements. An excellent team player, you will need the ability to work across boundaries to deliver against ambitious compliance targets set by a range of research bodies."