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156 · Representative Documents: Organization Charts BROWN UNIVERSITY Center for Digital Scholarship http://library.brown.edu/cds/about/staff Staff « Center for Digital Scholarship http://library.brown.edu/cds/about/staff[7/22/13 12:22:10 PM] Main page Staff Who we are: Andrew Ashton, Director, Library Digital Technologies Jean Bauer, Digital Humanities Librarian Bruce Boucek, Social Sciences Data Librarian Ann Caldwell,Head, Digital Production Services Julia Flanders, WWP Director Elli Mylonas, Senior Digital Humanities Librarian Ned Quist, Associate University Librarian for Research and Outreach Services Joseph Rhoads, Digital Repository Manager SEARCH: CDS Digital Collections CDS Website Advanced Collections Search Site map Center for Digital Scholarship |Brown University Library |Providence, RI 02912 |Contact Programs Projects Research About Featured projects: At the CDS Go
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154 · Representative Documents: Job Descriptions UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Data Consultant DataServicesConsultant.doc Data Consultant Description Description: Over the past 2 1/2 years, the University Library's Scientific Data Consulting Group has focused on assessment of the data management landscape at UVA, developing and testing service workflows and processes, building team capacity, and developing a strategy for addressing long-‐term research data management challenges at UVA. We are now positioned to offer significant value to the research process through a more complete set of lifecycle services and to become long-‐term data management consulting partners with researchers. We are now looking for an experienced researcher/scientist to join our group in a part-‐time capacity, for a one year period, to help advance specific objectives. In addition to participation in day-‐to-‐day consulting and training activities, this individual will contribute in the following ways: • 40% -‐ Add capacity for implementation services – Apply knowledge of the University, infrastructure, services, and belief in our approach, to add team capacity for consulting and training services, especially in consulting with researchers on implementation of our data management process improvement recommendations. • 40% -‐ Evaluation of value/impact – Within context of responsibility centered management (RCM), look at how SciDaC generates value for researchers and the institution from the funding allocated to the unit, and how this ecosystem can be measured and reported in a clear manner to various stakeholders (primary focus is on researchers). • 10% -‐ Analyze from a different perspective – Conduct ongoing testing of consulting and training processes with target user groups. • 10% -‐ Reach deeper-‐ Help SciDaC to better frame services in language which resonates with researchers, and to market more actively to those audiences. Required experience/skills: • Knowledge of research data policy, sponsored research trends, research software, open access trends, data sharing, security, preservation, IT environments, and academic research processes generally. • A demonstrated commitment to improvement of research data management practices in the academic environment. • Deep knowledge of how research is conducted, the incentive and motivation models involved in academic research, and how to marry the ideal vision for management and preservation of research data with the realities of day-‐to-‐day processes and cultural beliefs. • A PhD in an academic discipline, as well as demonstrated experience applying for, obtaining, and completing sponsored research grants. • More than 10 years experience as an academic researcher.