Job Description

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The Scholarly Communications Assistant is a key member of the Library\'s Scholarly Communications team that supports the research activities of the University. The post holder will work closely with academic and administrative colleagues to administer the flow, monitoring and analysis of research output data to ensure that the metadata is complete, accurate and entered correctly into the current research information system, Pure. You will provide advice and support to academic staff, responding to queries either directly via Teams, email or face-to-face. The post-holder will contribute to the administration of a central University publication fund for open-access article processing charges.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

The Scholarly Communications Team in the University Library provides expert support and guidance on routes to publication, compliance with Research Funder policies on publishing and best practice in Open Scholarship. In addition to providing administrative, technical and publishing support for journals hosted on our Northumbria Journals platform, we deliver advocacy, guidance, training and support across all areas of open research, including open access, research data management, bibliometrics and research assessment. We work with colleagues in the University Library and Research and Innovation Services to support research active staff and students across the institution.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for a proactive, self-motivated professional with an interest in or knowledge of current activity in open-access publishing and open research. You will be able to develop and maintain good working relationships, possess the ability to work with multiple systems and complete tasks with the utmost accuracy. As a team that seeks continuous improvement, we welcome candidates eager to contribute to the ongoing success of the team.

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ABOUT US

At Northumbria, we embrace tomorrow. We pursue new thinking, forge new partnerships, create, and exchange new knowledge, and find new solutions. Our inspirational academics, partners and students work together to tackle tomorrow\'s challenges head on. We are ready for the future whatever it may hold.

Awarded the title of in the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards, Northumbria University is a research-intensive modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from 137 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience, Northumbria is a new kind of excellent university. Discover more .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. To say thank you, we offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and .

Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence; Innovation; Inclusivity; Collaboration; and Ambition.

Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what\'s important to us.

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We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme.

The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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