About the Role

Open Research is an innovative and growing area of service provision. We are recruiting for a Senior Library Assistant within the Research Support wing of the team, to directly support King’s researchers in disseminating their work to a wider audience. 

You will be part of a friendly hard-working team who work collaboratively to help ensure that King’s research is accessible for the greatest possible impact. You will communicate with publishers and other players in the scholarly publishing ecosystem, and help to educate King’s research community about our services - supporting them with achieving cultural, social, and health impacts with their research findings. You will be required to participate in frontline services including contributing towards a rota for evening and weekend working. 

 

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates looking to work within open research, who wish to utilise their skills in understanding, organising, and explaining sometimes complex information to service users. 

 

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role.  

 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract. 

This is a full-time post, but we welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible work pattern within our necessary service operating hours.

 

Key responsibilities

 

The post holder will support all areas of the team’s work, typically with a focus on one or two aspects at any one time. These include the following core tasks:

• Help to manage King’s open access grants and requests for funding from King’s researchers; assisting authors with ensuring compliance with funder and publisher policies; liaising with funders, administer funds to pay APCs for immediate open access, raising POs and passing publisher invoices
• Contribute to managing publisher schemes, including liaison with account managers to ensure timely compliance with funders; keep a watching brief on these schemes so that we make best use of them
• Keep up to date with research funder policies (e.g. UKRI, Wellcome Trust) for open access, requirements for the REF, data management and sharing, and developments in the scholarly publishing landscape
• Skilfully interrogate and update scholarly publication records in King’s Current Research Information System (Pure), efficiently updating metadata, obtaining and attaching full text from researchers
• Administer dataset deposits into KORDS (King’s Open Research Data System) data repository, and requests for access to datasets.
• Provide advocacy to King’s research community, through the delivery of briefing and training sessions, creation of innovative publicity materials and well written webpage content, to support awareness of the Open Research agenda

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

 

Qualifications & Training

1. Relevant work experience and/or education.  A wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in a Library, for a Publisher, or at a University. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications, or other training.

Skills & Experience

1. Excellent oral and written communication skills
2. Ability to work to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
3. Ability to skilfully present detailed information to a range of different audiences in writing and in person
4. Ability to work effectively and proactively with other teams and stakeholders
5. Being comfortable with technology such as Microsoft Office and databases

Knowledge

1. Awareness of open research matters – such as: the research life cycle, research funding, open access publishing, repositories, issues related to the management, curation, and preservation of digital data

Personal Characteristics

1. Proactive, responsive and flexible approach to work
2. Ability to organize own workload, to work under pressure and meet deadlines
3. Ability to work as part of a team in a fast-changing environment

Desirable criteria

 

Skills & Experience

1. Experience of working in a commercial or academic research environment, or working with or to support good research data management, repositories/ CRIS systems, open access or scholarly publishing

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