Scholarly Services Technical Administrator

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The Hunt Library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) invites applications for the position of Scholarly Services Technical Administrator serving a diverse population of residential and online students.  The Scholarly Communication Department is seeking a collaborative and forward-thinking candidate to work closely with ERAU faculty and researchers to showcase, archive, and enrich the open access scholarship of our community.

The successful candidate will join the Hunt Library https://huntlibrary.erau.edu/, serving Daytona Beach and our Worldwide Campus of online students, working regular business hours.  This professional staff position reports to the Assistant Director for Scholarly Communication.  Hunt Library is a forward-thinking, technologically advanced library organization serving a dynamic university with a growing research focus. Hunt Library utilizes Digital Commons, Digital Commons Data, Pressbooks, and Pure to showcase the open research and open educational materials of the university to a global audience.

Responsibilities include working as part of a team providing hands-on support for our suite of scholarly communication platforms, acting as a collaborative partner with university IT and Electronic Library Services, mentoring student employees, and participating in collaborative team and cross-departmental assignments and special projects, including faculty outreach. No aviation or aerospace background is required: we welcome professionals from a wide variety of academic backgrounds who will enjoy working with our passionate research community. Growing the research presence and agenda is at the heart of the ERAU strategic plan, and Hunt Library provides an excellent opportunity to develop skills related to this area of growth. Consider joining our team.  Recent graduates and mid-career librarians or IT professionals are encouraged to apply.
Job Description:

To act as the primary administrator for the platforms and technologies used by the Scholarly Communication Department of four librarians in support of ERAU’s research efforts and open access initiatives.  This role is collaborative in nature, working closely with the whole Scholarly Communication Team at Hunt and Hazy libraries, as well as faculty and other key partners across the university, including the Research Enterprise.  The incumbent in this position also plays a central role in open access digital assets management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical administrator for the institutional repositories (bepress/Scholarly Commons and Data Commons)
• Primary technical support for the Research Information Management System (Pure/Portfolio), and OER publishing platform (Pressbooks/Eagle Pubs)
• Primary liaison between Scholarly Communications, the Electronic Library Services department, and university IT
• Supports collaborative partnerships between departments and integrations between systems within the department and across the university
• Provides one-on-one training for members of the university community, and technical workshops as needed and appropriate
• Contributes to the policy developments of the department in support of our OA efforts
• Supports the collection and distribution of statistics in support of the repositories and Scholarly Communication initiatives
• Act as triage for the shared Commons email during normal working hours
• Supervise a small number of student workers who assist with data entry, technical projects, and general departmental support.
• Identify, review, and report on new technologies and systems in support of Research and Scholarly Communication

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Information Technology field plus 2-3 years of experience in Higher Education Systems, Libraries, or Digital Archives OR A Master’s degree in LIS/IS, IT, Data management, Database systems, or related field
• Understanding of open access and digital curation
• Experience with vendor-supported software and enterprise-wide systems, preferably repository or database systems
• Experience with APIs and API standards
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Demonstrated experience with collaborative teams and cross-unit support

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with digital preservation, digital repositories, and/or digital archiving
• Understanding of open data and open research and its role in academic research
• Demonstrated experience with enhancing or supporting digital accessibility
• Experience in academic libraries, or an academic research support unit
• Experience with Library Information Management Systems, and/or Learning Management Systems
• Understanding of Research Data Management or Research Lifecycle
• Experience with any or all of the following, and a willingness to learn additional as needed:XML
• LaTeX
• Wordpress applications
• Research Information Management Systems
• OpenAPI schemas
• Basic Python or Javascript