Job opportunity at the British Library
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Inserito il 29/06/2015
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Job opportunity at the British Library:
Project Manager, THOR (Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research)
Salary range is £48,434 - £56,251 per annum
Full time (36 hours per week)
Fixed Term Contract to 31st January 2018
British Library, London
THOR ((Technical and Human Infrastructure for Open Research) [http://project-thor.eu] is a €3.4m euro project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme and coordinated by the British Library. THOR builds on the DataCite and ORCID initiatives to uniquely identify scholarly artefacts (such as data) and attribute them to researchers through persistent identifiers (PIDs).The project will run through December 2017.
THOR will improve research by making it easier to identify and track scholarly work. PIDs let researchers cite work easily and unambiguously, find and re-discover research, and assess research impact. Services will be designed and delivered through ORCID and DataCite infrastructures, in partnership with data repositories (Dryad, ANDS) and emerging publishers solutions (PLoS, Elsevier). It will work through concrete use cases in High-Energy Physics (at CERN), Humanities and Social Sciences (at the British Library), Life Sciences (at EMBL-EBI) and Geosciences (at PANGAEA).
The successful candidate will take responsibility for managing and delivering the project. The post-holder will work with the European Commission and the project management board, leveraging experience in large-scale multi-organisation collaborative projects and will guide and coordinate the work of the superb project team across ten partner organisations. You will be PRINCE2 (or equivalent) certified and be experienced with European projects. You will also be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the role of persistent identifiers and data in a multi-disciplinary setting, experience with digital library systems and services, understanding of research practices, and the ability to communicate with general, expert, and research communities is also required.
Closing Date: 9th July 2015
Interview Date: 20th July 2015
For further information and to apply, please visit www.bl.uk/careers quoting vacancy ref: COL00208
