The Harvard Library Research Data Management Program connects members of the
Harvard community to services and resources that span the research data
lifecycle, to help ensure that Harvard’s multi-disciplinary research data is
findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).
Reporting to the Harvard Library Research Data Management Program Manager, the
Data Services Librarian will work with partners and stakeholder within the
Harvard Library, and across the university, to provide data curation services,
training, and expertise to members of the Harvard community.
The Data Services Librarian will also advance the program’s mission and
objectives by assessing and improving existing program services and resources;
helping to develop new services and resources to benefit the Harvard community;
performing data services training and outreach; building and sustaining
relationships with partners across the research data lifecycle; and
participating in relevant library-wide and Harvard-wide committees, working
groups, projects, and events.
Duties and Responsibilities
As a member of this highly collaborative program team, the Data Services
Librarian will:
Partner with Harvard Library departments and the Institute of Quantitative
Social Sciences (IQSS) to establish and deliver scalable Dataverse repository
data curation services to support data sharing, reuse, collections development,
and stewardship. Specific duties will include providing data curation
consultation services to members of the Harvard community; designing and
implementing data organization frameworks within Dataverse; ingesting and
applying metadata to data within Dataverse; and providing ongoing maintenance
and support for curated datasets;
Participate in Harvard Library and university project, working groups, and
cross-organizational teams involved in issues pertaining to research data
management and data curation;
Form and maintain strong, productive relationships with stakeholders across
Harvard’s research data management landscape to accomplish complex strategic
and operational objectives;
Collaborate with members of the Harvard Library Learning Initiative to design
and deliver data services training to members of the Library community;
Contribute substantively to program operations, including updating program
resources, such as websites and wikis; contributing to regular program and
project reports; developing and documenting workflows and procedures; and
managing program-related projects, working groups, and teams;
Participate in other activities, as required, to support the mission and
objectives of the Harvard Library Research Data Management Program.
Please note: this is a fully-benefitted term appointment with an end date of
three years from the date of hire.
Basic Qualifications
Masterʼs degree in Library or Information Science from an ALA-accredited
institution of higher education or an advanced degree in a related field;
Minimum two years of experience with the research data lifecycle, data
curation, and FAIR data principles;
Minimum two years of experience in project management
Additional Qualifications
Data curation experience involving a data repository, such as Dataverse;
Data curation experience involving sensitive data and data de-identification;
Experience organizing and documenting data;
Demonstrated ability to create and use programs, scripts, and other tools, such
as Open Refine, to extract and manipulate data from a variety of sources,
including web services and APIs;
Experience collaborating and communicating with faculty and researchers;
Ability to navigate and thrive in a complex organizational environment;
Ability to learn new technological tools, applications, and techniques
continuously;
Ability to manage workload, priorities and deadlines and achieve timeline goals.
Strong written and oral communication skills, including presentation or
teaching skills.
Although this position will remain open until filled, applications will be
reviewed beginning June 28th , 2019
Diversity at the Harvard Library
Across the Harvard Library, our work is enriched by our diverse campus
community. Our unique and wide-ranging abilities, experiences, and perspectives
are integral to achieving Harvard University’s mission of excellence in
research, teaching, and learning for our patrons, our collections, and our
workplace. We believe that an inclusive environment that cultivates and
promotes understanding, respect, and collaboration across our diverse workforce
enables our success. The Data Services Librarian will promote and embody this
commitment through his/her work and relationships.
We encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences and abilities to
apply to be a part of our community of over 700 staff members. Our work with
faculty, students and researchers to explore answers to intellectual questions,
enduring and new, and to seek solutions to the world’s most consequential
problems, requires that we not only reflect, but also champion our diverse
society.
Harvard Library inspires collaboration, reflection, experimentation, and
discovery. Serving as an information hub, the Library connects users to related
disciplines and to University-wide teaching resources. The Library engages
users through curated discovery, digital collections, reimagined physical
space, specialized research support, and delivers exceptional experiences to
its user communities. Today, Harvard Library’s holdings range from traditional
print collections to rapidly expanding access to digital resources. Harvard
Library provides the University's faculty, students, and researchers—now and in
the future—with comprehensive access to these materials.
Learn more about our contributions to the academic enterprise by visiting us at
http://library.harvard.edu and about the Harvard University community at
http://hr.harvard.edu/why-harvard.
The Harvard Library is a proud member of the Association of College &
Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Alliance.
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