Open Research Officer - Jobs at LSHTM

"The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice. 

The Open Research Officer is based within the Collection Support & Open Research Services Team, reporting to the Research Publications Manager and working closely with the Research Data Manager. They play an active role in providing open access, research data management and open science support to researchers. The role encompasses management of green and gold open access requests, providing advice to researchers on how to balance funder requirements with journal policies, and processing requests for payments of open access charges. The post holder also assists the Research Data Manager in dealing with research data management enquiries and with other activities, including support for LSHTM Data Compass, the organisation’s repository for research data.

You will have proven experience of delivering support for open access publishing or research data management, Demonstrable knowledge of metadata standards and issues relating to working with repositories preferably within a higher education institution. You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and be service oriented with excellent interpersonal skills...."