Open Science Research Specialist

2 weeks ago

London, Canada Western University Full time

**Classification & Regular Hours**:
Hours per Week: 35

Salary Grade: 14

**About Western**:
**About Us**:
The Western Institute for Neuroscience will mobilize and unify the neuroscience research community at Western and in the City of London by creating programs and activities that bring together experts from different disciplines, identify and build on shared vision to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations, and support academic training and leadership to accelerate research impact (e.g., support of novel and high-risk collaborative ventures, attract and retain high-quality personnel).

**Responsibilities**:
The role will work with the WIN Research Officer to enhance the overall research success and productivity and serve as a liaison between and among Western Research, WORLDiscoveries, Western Libraries, Western University's Research Ethics Boards, Faculties, Institutes, Centres, and other units on campus. The role will play a lead part in developing educational events and training researchers, staff, students and postdoctoral fellows in Open Science principles and good practices.

**Qualifications**:

- Education:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Biomedicine, Engineering or Health Sciences
- Training in EDID for research (e.g. cultural sensitivity/competency training/certification, OCAP training)
- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Neuroscience or a related area is preferred

**Experience**:
- 5 years' experience in Open Access, Open Data or Open Source in context of digital research methods in neuroscience
- Experience in research dissemination, new scholarly communications models, and data management in neuroscience
- Experience with scientific software development (e.g., MATLAB, Python, Julia) and database design and administration
- Experience implementing and supporting virtualization and/or containerization technologies (e.g., VXRails, Docker, Linux, Singularity Containers)

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Knowledge of publication platforms and data repositories and familiarity with various data and metadata formats and their related standards
- Expertise with support services in the area of Open Access, Open Data, Open Source
- Strong working knowledge of automation with shell scripting
- Strong working knowledge of a scientific programming language (e.g. Python)
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to complete detailed analytics and reports as required
- Proven ability to take initiative and in-depth knowledge of how to champion a project from conception through implementation and evaluation
- Ability and willingness to stay abreast of technological developments
- Familiarity with intellectual property management, including copyrights and patents
- Ability to collaborate across internal and external boundaries to meet common objectives, improve outcomes and support work beyond one's own unit
- Oral and written communication skills with an emphasis on proposal development, completing analytics and reports and delivering presentations
- Ability to understand customer needs and expectations and provide excellent customer service to directly and indirectly satisfy expectations
- A desire to grow and advance skills, which is demonstrated by attending conferences, workshops and other professional developmental opportunities to enhance performance
- Professional manner, tact, diplomacy and discretion in dealing with associates and colleagues including senior management

**Western Values Diversity**:
**Please Note**:
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted.

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