Posted September 25, 2034
Closes October 6, 2024
The Position
| Job Title: | Research Impact Student Specialist |
|---|---|
| Location/Department: | Suzzallo & Allen Libraries / Open Scholarship Commons & Arts and Humanities |
| Rate: | $20.57 |
| Hours: | 12-19 hours per week. Weekdays between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm |
| Positions available: | 1 |
| Date posted: | September 25, 2024 |
| Closing date: | October 6, 2024 |
| Start date: | October 21, 2024 (negotiable) |
Duties
- Triage and respond to Open Scholarship Commons inquiries related to research impact and online profile development;
- Develop asynchronous learning objects related to research impact and online scholarly identity development;
- Schedule one-on-one consultations with UW community members and their subject liaisons on research impact related topics;
- Schedule and teach/co-teach 1-2 workshops each academic quarter;
- Offer workshop support by helping to set up workshop space, helping workshop leaders connect to technology within the space, distributing/monitoring/collection laptops from our laptop cart, monitoring online workshops (ex. Chat monitoring, helping users troubleshoot technical issues, communicating online issues to on-site OSC staff, etc.);
- Offer support for OSC programs and events like Open Access Week, Hacking the Academy, Choose Privacy Week, the OSC Community Fellows Workshop Series, and/or Going Public through marketing, scheduling, chat monitoring, and assessment;
- Serve as a resource on national and international trends for research impact and online scholarly identity development with OSC partners;
- Assist with other OSC needs and special projects as necessary.
Required Qualifications
- Background experience or strong interest in working with research impact and online scholarly identity development
- Customer support or any form of other general service experience
- Interest in working with and/or learning new technologies
- Ability to work on-site in the Open Scholarship Commons
Desired Qualifications
- Teaching or tutoring experience
- Previous experience working in libraries is a plus but not required
- Experience working with WordPress is a bonus
Other Job Details
If you do research, how do you know it matters? Who does it matter to? What does sharing research with non-academic audiences look like in a post-Twitter world? We are seeking an Open Scholarship Commons Student Specialist focused on research impact and online scholarly identity development to create instructional materials, offer consultations, develop and teach quarterly workshops (workshops may take place virtually, hybrid, or in person), monitor trends in these areas, and join our Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) Team in supporting the logistics associated with our online, hybrid, and in person programming. In this position, you will help researchers by explaining the different forums for scholarly profiles, share efficient ways to keep them current, and navigate questions related to the management of scholarly profiles. You will help researchers trace the reach of their scholarly work by creating impact reports. You will offer workshops and create online content on cross-disciplinary issues including research impact; publishing metrics; bibliometrics and altmetrics; researcher identifiers (e.g. ORCID iD); and the use of scholarly social networks. You will also explore opportunities for developing altmetrics guidance to support UW’s growing community-engagement initiative. The Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) is an active Libraries space dedicated to teaching skills on openly sharing research and translating it to general audiences. The story of research can be told through a variety of ways including digital publishing, data, media, and by reflecting on how our research reaches new audiences (research impact). We’re here to support scholars, creators, and learners from diverse backgrounds to learn from each other and build the skills necessary to co-create, share, translate, and make the impact of their research visible to the world.
How to Apply
Upload your resume and cover letter to the form above with your student NetID.
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