The role will involve playing a leading role in developing and executing the Research Data Services at TU Delft and 4TU.ResearchData, the data archive for the technical sciences in the Netherlands. Some of the tasks will be:

1. Ensure high-quality training on Research Data Management throughout TU Delft, working with a range of stakeholders institutionally, nationally and internationally.

2. Create and maintain high-quality advice on Research Data Management throughout TU Delft.

3. Monitor and analyse progress of Research Data Management at TU Delft.

4. Present and champion 4TU.ResearchData on a national and international basis.

5. Play a leading role in policy, development and ongoing implementation of 4TU.ResearchData.

6. Play a leading role in national and international working groups on data. In particular for the  the CAESER Research Data Management Group: encouraging members, devising ideas and plans, and ensuring their delivery.

You have a university degree and experience in academic research and understand what motivates researchers.

• You are able to understand and communicate with researchers from different disciplines, and provide persuasive arguments on the advantages of good research data management.

• You have good experience of training, and understand how to turn learning goals into suitable workshops, seminars etc.

• You have a good understanding of how the different aspects of university operate (Eg the faculties, support services such as the library).

• You have excellent networking, communication, social and negotiation skills.

• You have excellent command of the English language, written and spoken.

Fixed-term contract: 1 year.

This position has an amount of 36-40 (1,0 fte) working hours per week. The offer contains a temporary appointment for one year, with the possibility of extension. The salary is based on scale 11 with a maximum of € 4.757,- per month on a fulltime basis. The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, a discount for health insurance and sport memberships, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged. An International Children’s Centre offers child care and an international primary school. Dual Career Services offers support to accompanying partners. Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is a multifaceted institution offering education and carrying out research in the technical sciences at an internationally recognised level. Education, research and design are strongly oriented towards applicability. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality. At TU Delft you will work in an environment where technical sciences and society converge. TU Delft comprises eight faculties, unique laboratories, research institutes and schools.

https://www.tudelft.nl

University Corporate Office - TU Delft Library

The TU Delft Library is the largest technical-scientific library in the Netherlands and has the task of safeguarding the availability of technical-scientific information for TU Delft and all of the Netherlands. We focus as much as possible on providing digital services and digital, technical-scientific information. The Library performs its services with a strong attention to customer service and quality but also aims higher. Where its responsibilities to the university and the Netherlands are concerned, the Library strives to expand its role to new territory. Our expertise enables us to improve the information and knowledge holdings of the university, contribute to the increase, valorisation and exploitation of the knowledge available, and to make this available to parties outside the university. User surveys are highly valued for the Library’s innovative services.

The Library's Research Data Services are playing a leading role in promiting high-quality Research Data Management. Its Data Stewardship proejct helps reach out to a wide range of researchers at the university, embedding different practices and approaches over a wide range of disciplines. The team is also the host of 4TU.ResearchData, one of the largest data archives in the Netherlands. It has been in existence since 2010 and hosts over 7,500 datasets from a variety of scientific disciplines.

https://www.tudelft.nl/library/