Job description
Position Description
- Provide data management and related digital services support to HMS and Harvard TH Chan faculty, researchers, and students, including outreach, training, and consultations related to OpenScience policy obligations and required reporting mechanisms that involve data deposit, data citation, descriptive ontologies, best practices, to demonstrate funder compliance;
- Collaborate with the Harvard Library, Research Data Services Librarian, and university-wide stakeholders to align messaging and goals toward ensuring Harvard researchers understand their options and workflows that help retain, preserve, and provide access to their research data and scholarly products;
- Assists with discovery, management, archiving, and visualization of research data, including the unique digital collections within Countway Library;
- Provide consultations and research support for graduate students, residents, faculty, and researchers on the use of citation management tools, online collaborative workspaces (OSF, GitHub), and bibliometrics analytical tools (VOSviewer; Bibliometrix);
- Design and maintain instruction materials (e.g., research guides, websites, tutorials, handouts, and exercises) that provide additional opportunities for self-guided learning;
- Participates in Harvard Library-wide discussions and collaborations where data services and scholarly communication initiatives may impact Harvard Medical School and/or HSPH researchers; including HL efforts towards university-wide data management, data preservation, and open science initiatives;
- Will adapt to an evolving set of services that will need to align with the full research lifecycle; including manuscript preparation, data gathering, geospatial and qualitative data visualization options, as well as text-mining data analysis tools;
- Maintain skills and knowledge to support current applications and digital services that are within the supervision of Countway's Publishing & Data Services unit;
- Provide consultations and research support with Harvard faculty, researchers, students, and staff as a member of the Publishing & Data Services team; including (but not limited to) the basic steps towards contributing to both manuscript and/or data repositories;
- Coordinates development of metadata to support the discovery and management of digital content and adapt online tools and technologies to Countway's web presence (as appropriate);
- Address questions, concerns, and training with regard to Electronic Theses and Dissertation submissions for graduating students and graduate school program coordinators;
- Assist with the administration/configuration of the ProQuest ETD submission(and Harvard DASH ETD relay) tool and triage questions/concerns around supplemental data, copyright, and "required" scholarly sharing;
- Consult on designing, printing, and presenting conference posters, visualizing GIS data, and 3D object rendering;
- Provide training, outreach, and assistance to Harvard researchers where ORCID and/or the management of accurate "researcher profiles" can help towards streamlining publication impact data reports (bibliometrics) and/or automate the population of HMS CV generator, SciENcv, and other new ORCID API integrations that the Publishing & Data Services team will help to lead;
- Maintains an awareness of broader scholarly communication, data management, and curation issues associated with e-science and open data initiatives;
- Serve on local and national committees within relevant professional organizations. Attends research presentations, seminars, or meetings in designated subject areas to identify potential research assistance opportunities.
Basic Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in library/information science from an ALA-accredited institution or equivalent accredited advanced degree in a related discipline such as History (preferably in the history of medicine or science).
- Three or more years of experience in the fields of biomedicine, health sciences, and academic, or medical librarianship.
Additional Qualifications and Skills
- Knowledge of technologies and standards to manage the digitization, reformatting, ingestion, discovery, and preservation of born-digital formats;
- Basic familiarity with one or more software packages for statistical, geospatial, qualitative, and/or text analysis;
- Collaborates to create information products, digital tools, and services to enable users to locate, organize, and use information;
- Experience with ArcGIS desktop;
- Familiarity with geocoding, aggregation, and analysis of health data;
- Demonstrated knowledge of metadata formats and standards such as Dublin Core, EAD, MARC, METS, MODS, PREMIS, and XML;
- Experience with one or more open-source digital library management systems such as CONTENTdm, Islandora, DSpace, Omeka, Digital Commons, or Fedora;
- Serve as a technical liaison for the library's institutional repository (IR);
- Knowledge of data management, transformation tools, and scripting languages such as Open Refine, XSLT, or MS Excel;
- Experience with content management systems for websites (e.g., Drupal, etc.);
- Experience with analysis and visualization tools including Excel, Tableau, or related resources;
- Knowledge of biomedical information resources, expert databases, and grey literature searching experience;
- Seek opportunities to offer more integrated, scaffolded, and high-impact information fluency instruction;
- Demonstrated knowledge of digitization processes, life cycle management of digital assets, metadata schema, authority control, controlled vocabularies, and relevant descriptive standards.
Additional Information
This position is based in Boston and some in-person on-campus work will be required, and flexible/remote work is an option. Any remote work must be performed in a state in which Harvard is registered to do business (CA*, CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA, VT, and WA). Individual flexible and remote work options for this role will be discussed during the interview process. *Note: Harvard employees working in California must be exempt.
Harvard University continues to place the highest priority on the health, safety, and well-being of its faculty, staff, and students, as well as the wider community. Please note that all new employees will be required to complete an attestation of having received their primary series COVID-19 vaccination prior to hire, as detailed on our COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement Webpage. Individuals may request exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons prior to completing the hiring process. Additional information regarding this requirement, exemptions, verification of vaccination status, and other related policies and resources may be found on the University’s COVID-19 Information Website.
Please note that we are currently conducting a majority of interviews and onboarding remotely and virtually. We appreciate your understanding.
The Harvard Medical School is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
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Harvard University continues to place the highest priority on the health, safety, and well-being of its faculty, staff, and students, as well as the wider community. Please note that all new employees will be required to complete an attestation of having received their primary series COVID-19 vaccination prior to hire, as detailed on our COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement Webpage. Individuals may request exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons prior to completing the hiring process. Additional information regarding this requirement, exemptions, verification of vaccination status, and other related policies and resources may be found on the University’s COVID-19 Information Website.
Please note that we are currently conducting a majority of interviews and onboarding remotely and virtually. We appreciate your understanding.
The Harvard Medical School is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Not ready to apply? Join our talent community to keep in touch and learn about future opportunities!
Benefits
We invite you to visit Harvard’s Total Rewards website to learn more about our outstanding benefits package, which may include:
- Paid Time Off: 3-4 weeks of accrued vacation time per year (3 weeks for support staff and 4 weeks for administrative/professional staff), 12 accrued sick days per year, 12.5 holidays plus a Winter Recess in December/January, 3 personal days per year (prorated based on date of hire), and up to 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents who are primary care givers.
- Health and Welfare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and life insurance programs, along with voluntary benefits. Most coverage begins as of your start date.
- Work/Life and Wellness: Child and elder/adult care resources including on campus childcare centers, Employee Assistance Program, and wellness programs related to stress management, nutrition, meditation, and more.
- Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with contributions from 5% to 15% of eligible compensation, based on age and earnings with full vesting after 3 years of service.
- Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive program including $40 per class at the Harvard Extension School and reduced tuition through other participating Harvard graduate schools.
- Tuition Reimbursement: Program that provides 75% to 90% reimbursement up to $5,250 per calendar year for eligible courses taken at other accredited institutions.
- Professional Development: Programs and classes at little or no cost, including through the Harvard Center for Workplace Development and LinkedIn Learning.
- Commuting and Transportation: Various commuter options handled through the Parking Office, including discounted parking, half-priced public transportation passes and pre-tax transit passes, biking benefits, and more.
- Harvard Facilities Access, Discounts and Perks: Access to Harvard athletic and fitness facilities, libraries, campus events, credit union, and more, as well as discounts to various types of services (legal, financial, etc.) and cultural and leisure activities throughout metro-Boston.
Job Function
Library
Department Office Location
USA - MA - Boston
Job Code
386057 Library Professional
Work Format
Hybrid (partially on-site, partially remote)
Department
Countway Library of Medicine
Sub-Unit
-
Time Status
Full-time
Salary Grade
057
Union
00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary
Pre-Employment Screening
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EEO Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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