Open Research Engagement Librarian

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom King's College London Full time
Job Description

About Us

The King's community is dedicated to the service of society.

King's Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas:

educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world.

Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.


This role is based in the Open Research team, responsible for working with King's researchers in an exciting, complex, and fast-moving area.

The team works to support the curation and dissemination of scholarly outputs - comprising support for open accessing publishing, REF exercises, research data management, and copyright; alongside an interlending service and wide range of subscription-based Library resources - including journals, databases, and ebooks, to support learning, teaching, and research.

About the Role


The purpose of the Open Research Engagement Librarian is to support the open research agenda, identifying opportunities to communicate with and engage King's researchers, staff in Libraries & Collections, and the wider King's community.

The postholder will work with the Open Research team, ensuring stakeholders are informed, consulted, and enthused about opportunities and developments in open research.

This will include scholarly publishing, open data, bibliometrics, funder policies, and developments in the publishing landscape.

They will be responsible for developing a programme of advocacy, knowledge sharing, and training, to promote and embed open research practices across the College.


All Libraries & Collections staff are encouraged to take responsibility for their own performance and development, through agreeing clear objectives, maintaining professional awareness, participating in professional networks and reflecting on own performance.

We expect all managers to role-model a positive, proactive, flexible and committed approach that inspires others.


You will be required to participate in frontline services as required, including contributing towards a Manager on Duty rota for evening and weekend working.

This is currently a hybrid role with both working from home and on campus. The role will be based at our department, at the Maughan Library - part of the Strand campus.

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 2 years.

Key responsibilities

  • Oversee Open Research engagement activity, working closely with staff across the team especially the Open Access Librarian, Research Data Manager, and Head of Open Research; support and enable them to communicate about OR and build relationships with King's research community, establishing and developing effective communication channels
  • Take a structured approach to Open Research advocacy and communications, conducting a review, assessing current activities, identifying gaps and opportunities, producing and executing a plan to support our goals
  • Oversee the creation of publicity and promotion materials and guides, and the planning and running of a range of inperson and virtual promotional events
  • Lead on Open Research LibUX related activities within Open Research, creating mechanisms to obtain regular user feedback, enabling the team to understand and evaluate the impact of our work and support continuous service improvement
  • Share in the delivery of briefing and training sessions to the research community, about open access publishing and research data management
  • Collaborate with other grade 6 colleagues in Libraries & Collections to prioritise, plan and share accountability for delivering on our aims
  • Promote continuous improvement, service innovation and the delivery of results
  • Manage people or a team, through project or line management, in order to deliver high quality services
  • Support the implementation and use of Business Intelligence to steer operational service planning and decision making
  • Liaise and engage with appropriate stakeholders to ensure efficient service delivery
  • 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

  • Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include working in a marketing and comms role in different organisations, working in a university or research institute, Library work. Relevant educational experiences should include being educated to first degree level and/or professionally accredited library/information qualification
  • Experience of planning and d

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