“Supporting your academic goals.” That is what we do at Maastricht University Library. One of those goals is responsibly answering questions about the (potential) academic and societal impact of research conducted at our university. That goal is central to the work of the Research Intelligence team, and thus also to this position. You work closely together with the faculties’ academics and administrative staff, to support strategy-driven evaluations, informed decision- and policymaking, efforts to obtain funding or seek additional collaboration partners. For this, you can rely on various data sources, including our Current Research Information System (Pure), Web of Science, Altmetric Explorer, Unpaywall and a range of bibliometric analysis tools such as InCites and VOSviewer.

Your work focuses on:

• Supporting research units in their periodical assessments based on the Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP). It is your responsibility to identify the analyses that best answer the strategic questions at hand, albeit analyses that are already available in our Research Intelligence dashboard or tailor-made analyses.
• Conducting research impact evaluations based on our Research Intelligence database, which uses the Current Research Information System as its backbone and is maintained by our Data Technology experts. Ideally, you would be able to harvest information from these databases using scripting languages. You combine various sources of research information (publications, metrics, etc.) and filter and analyse this information in a responsible way in line with the initial research questions.
• Supporting in the nuanced interpretation of analyses and visualisations. What do the findings mean, how can they support an evaluative narrative, or how can they be meaningfully translated to decisions or policy?
• Presenting and promoting Research Intelligence services within the university, and building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, such as boards of research schools or faculties.
• Following the developments in the field of responsible research evaluation and update Research Intelligence practices according to these developments.

We are looking for you if you are eager to delve deep into the available research information to find the answers that our colleagues throughout the university are looking for. You have affinity and/or experience on conducting responsible research evaluation, and a positive attitude towards Open Science and the culture change in research assessment related to it.

Furthermore, you have:

• a bachelor degree or a master degree, preferably with demonstrable research experience;
• a good command of the Dutch and English language and strong interpersonal skills;
• good time management and planning skills;
• experience with scripting languages such as Python or R is favourable for data harvesting and visualisation.

Fixed-term contract: The initial contract will be for the fixed term of 1 year.

As Research Intelligence officer, you will work at the most international university of the Netherlands in the beautiful city of Maastricht. Furthermore, we offer you:

• An interesting and challenging job for 30.4 hours per week (0.8 FTE). 
• A position that is classified in the UFO profile Specialist Scientific Information, level 2. Depending on experience, you will be classified in scale 10 of the CAO NU (€2,960,- - €4,670,- gross per month, based on a fulltime position of 38 hours per week). In addition to the monthly salary, an 8.0% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus apply.
• Space and facilities to develop yourself: personally and in the latest technology. This partly takes place in-house, but also with external (online) partners.
• In addition to good primary employment conditions, there is also a nice package of secondary employment conditions. You can think of: flexible working hours, 232 holiday hours per year with a full-time appointment, a good pension scheme, the possibility of hybrid working (incl. facilitation of home office), possibility to use sports facilities, and Collective Labour Agreement á la carte.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM.

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 22,000 students and about 5,000 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. 
For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl.

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