Job: Technical Community Manager | DataCite

Your responsibilities

1. Build strategies to drive adoption and technical implementation

• Continuously evaluate workflows and demonstrate value for community stakeholders through embedding DataCite services in their workflows
• Communicate the stakeholder value proposition across the various DataCite services
• Lead the DataCite Service Providers program
• Monitor the use of DataCite services to track key adoption metrics
• Provide input into the product design specifications as needed
• Develop relevant materials and demonstrate best practices in order to improve adoption

1. Lead the DataCite Adoption team

• Manage a small team responsible for Adoption, Technical Workflows, and Support
• Develop the DataCite adoption strategy and align with the DataCite strategic plan
• Be the internal point of contact for the DataCite Engineering team to ensure alignment

1. Organize community efforts towards adoption of data metrics

• Advocate for adoption of responsible, meaningful approaches to research data assessment
• Coordinate with community stakeholders to define the adoption strategies of data usage and data citation best practices
• Convene community stakeholders to build on the established Community of Practice

1. Ensure project outcomes are adopted as part of DataCite's core services

• Develop adoption strategies for the various project activities and outputs
• Work with Early Adopters to provide exemplar implementations and best practices
• Actively participate in community groups and meetings to ensure alignment across community initiatives

1. Coordinate further development and adoption of the DataCite metadata schema

• Be the DataCite representative on the Metadata Working Group
• Collate member, service provider, and other community stakeholder feedback for the Metadata Working Group and share adoption and implementation use cases
• Work with members, service providers and other community stakeholders on implementation of metadata best practices

Required skills and qualifications

• University degree
• Familiar with research infrastructure and the open science landscape
• Sufficient technical skills to advise members on integrations, including experience with making and troubleshooting requests to RESTful APIs and familiarity with XML and JSON data structures
• Experience with Git/Github and basic knowledge of one or more scripting languages such as Python, Javascript, Ruby or PHP
• Familiarity/comfort with command line tools, such as cURL
• Knowledge of data metrics and the various community efforts
• Passionate about metadata
• Ability to work with a distributed team across time zones
• Strong, compelling, and clear written, oral, and visual communication
• Self-motivated to succeed and take initiative and seek continuous improvement

Desired skills

• Outreach experience, particularly engaging with global and technical audiences
• Data science skills
• Familiarity with product management
• Familiarity with one or more digital repository platforms (DSpace, Dataverse, ePrints, Invenio, Samvera, etc)
• Experience with tools such as Salesforce and Wordpress is a plus
• Experience working in an international environment
• Comfortable working remotely

Why work for us

• Remote position.
• Competitive local salary.
• 30 days vacation time annually, plus 1 day paid extra for volunteer work of your choice.
• Flexible working hours.
• Option to work in a co-working space with a paid contribution from us.
• Opportunity to learn something new every day.