Scholarly Communications Steward (0,8 FTE)

Would you like to work at a university that strengthens its Open & Responsible Science practices to increase its impact on society and support Life Long Learning? Are Open Educational Resources your passion? And do you enjoy working with academics from various disciplines, enabling them to make well considered choices to open up their educational materials? Are you an enthusiastic networker with a heart for scholarly communication? Then this role is the role for you!

Job description

Together with colleagues from the Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI), the EUR Open & Responsible Science team and the EUR Copyright Information Point, you help Erasmus University to take Open Education to a higher level. As an Scholarly Communications Steward  with a focus on Open Educational Resources (OER), you support our academics in the process of creation, usage, evaluation, distribution, and preservation of educational materials in an open way. This includes being an active participant in national working groups on Open Educational resources.

In close collaboration with your EUR colleagues and peers of other Dutch universities, you help implementing strategic goals for Open Educational Resources university-wide. You do this by providing advice and support to EURS lecturers and contributing to the ongoing activities, such as training and workshops. You follow international developments in open education and scholarly communication closely and provide information to lecturers and university administrators.

In this position you will:

• Contribute to an EUR framework and guidelines for Open Education with a focus on open educational resources
• Provide training and advice to lecturers on various themes pertaining to open educational resources, both domain-specific and university-wide
• Review and update the current training materials to meet new norms in the field of open science
• Handle queries and requests received by the Library concerning open educational materials
• Give advice and support to lecturers which technical infrastructure to use for creating, publishing, and sharing open educational resources
• Encourage that the use and creation of open educational resources become an integral part of the didactic approach in the design of courses
• Supply annual reports on the (re)use of educational material in the EUR Educational Repository internally (to EUR Schools) and externally and ensure compliancy with the Easy Access Agreement
• Identify funding opportunities to aid grassroots projects and collaborate in national Open Science infrastructural projects related to open text books
• Follow new (inter)national developments in open education and translate those to EUR context by writing recommendations, reports, or guidelines
• Foster institutional collaborations with departments CLI, EUR Library Education Support, and engage in national and international networks related to open education
• Ensure that EUR is compliant to the Easy Access Agreement

Every job is different, so in the beginning we will devote attention to your onboarding. If some of the work activities are new to you, we'll work together to figure out what you need, and draw up a development plan.

This position is a good fit for you if you bring the following:

• You have an academic education and affinity with an academic work environment
• Knowledge of and affinity with Open educational resources, scholarly communications and the regulations and requirements with regard to academic publishing in the open science era
• Excellent communication, presentation, and advice-giving skills, paired with community engagement experience
• Strategic writing skills
• Excellent spoken and written Dutch and English (C1 level for both languages)
• You are analytical, result-oriented and flexible

If you recognize yourself in this profile, we look forward to your application!

We offer you an internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with excellent working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU).

The start date of this position is as soon as possible and you will be based at at campus Woudestein in the University Library. The position is for 0,8 FTE. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge and ranges from a minimum of €3.546 to a maximum of €5.538 gross per month on a fulltime basis, in accordance with scale 10 of the CAO-NU. The contract is offered for a period of 1 year and can be converted into an employment contract for an indefinite period if suitability is proven and if continued in the same position, if (financial and/or organizational) circumstances remain the same.

Everything else we offer you; you can find below!

- Everything you need for a good work-life balance: the option to work from home in consultation with your manager, 41 days of paid leave with a 40 hour contract, 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a significant discount on a subscription for our on-campus sports centreOpens external!

- Sustainable, inclusive and diverse work environment with an open culture, where you can be yourself and we pay attention to each other and to the world around us. Make the most of our bicycle budget, or join networks such as Young@EUROpens external, FAME or QuEUR.

- Time and space for your development in the broadest sense: development days and a personal career budget and free access to our university library.

- Good pension with ABP that EUR contributes 2/3rds towards, discounts on various collective insurances with Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Loyalis, and Allianz, and compensation for travel, working from home and home internet use.

- Are you currently combining your job with parenthood, or do you want to do so in the future? EUR offers partially paid parental leave and fully paid additional birth leave for partners, and our campus features a daycare (daycare not paid for by EUR).

- Moving to the Netherlands for your job with EUR? Then you may be eligible for the 30%-ruling if you meet the requirements of the Belastingdienst (Dutch tax agency), and with our Dual Career Programme we will also help your partner find the right job for them.

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 4.100 academics and professionals and almost 33.000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl.

As the content manager of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), the University Library (UB) supports students, lecturers and researchers in creating and disseminating knowledge and deepening. All services of the University Library are openly accessible and in this way we contribute to a positive social impact, not only in the academic environment but also beyond.

The University Library has an open culture in which collaboration, working on the basis of trust and taking responsibility are important.

Department

The Library Education Support Department

This department supports education at the university in the broadest sense. It consists of the Front Desk Team, the Information Specialists Team (which you will be part of), and three Faculty Liaisons.

The department provides services in areas such as information literacy, the use of teaching materials within copyright regulations, responsible use of Generative AI, and the availability and use of Open Educational Resources.

The department works closely with colleagues from other teams and departments, both within and outside the University Library.

Are you enthusiastic, but would like to ask some questions about the position first? Then you can contact Petra Busstra, Head of Library Education Support,via petra.busstra@eur.nl. 

For questions about the procedure, you can contact our recruiter Iris Konijnendijk at iris.konijnendijk@eur.nl.