Science Data Librarian

Provide data curation services to students, faculty, and staff, and advocate for research data management best practices over the whole data lifecycle. As a library liaison, teaches information literacy skills, provides outreach, and builds on-going relationships with students, faculty, and staff, contributing knowledge and creativity to the library, the college, and the profession. The application review period for this position will begin mid-September with an expected start date in January 2025. Only applications with complete cover letter and resumes will be considered.

Contact Alyssa Wright, Director of Research, Instruction and Data Services, if you have questions about this posting: alyssaw@middlebury.edu

This is a full time, benefits eligible, salaried position with a hiring range of $63,009 - $78,787 per year.

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage institutional repository, including workflows/procedures, policies, documentation, and metadata management, and provide curation services for scholarly and research assets.
• Teach workshops on data curation, processing, analysis, and visualization, giving researchers and students the tools necessary to further research activities.
• Guide research data management planning for researchers and sponsored research office to support grant applications and subsequent fulfillment of funding agency requirements.
• Contribute to institutional planning on research data related initiatives and advocate for best practices over the whole data lifecycle.
• Build relationships with students, faculty, and staff by providing discipline-specific research advice, proactively communicating about relevant resources, and making decisions about library collections and spaces that are informed by curricular needs.
• Teach research and information literacy skills in the classroom and in one-on-one meetings, modeling best practices from instructional design and the science of learning.
• Develop web guides and other learning and outreach materials that highlight library resources and exhibit universal design principles for accessibility.
• Contribute knowledge and creativity to the library, the college, and the profession by supporting principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion, working cooperatively, participating in campus initiatives, and engaging in scholarly and professional service activities.

Middlebury College is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in library or information science from an accredited institution, or its equivalent, required.
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment, a passion for providing empathetic research support, a strong sense of accountability, and excellent attention to detail, required.
• Learner-centered teaching skills and outstanding oral and written communication skills required.
• Awareness of current best practices and funder requirements for data management and preservation required; experience managing research data workflows preferred.
• Undergraduate degree in a laboratory science or experience in a related field, preferred.
• Coursework in digital preservation and data curation best practices, or equivalent experience, preferred.
• Familiarity with or willingness to learn R, Python, or other language that is used for data acquisition, analysis, or visualization, preferred.
• Foreign language skills preferred, but not required.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• This is a full-time, on-campus position. 1-2 days of remote work per week is a possibility most of the year.
• Shared participation in evening and weekend hours may be required.
• The work is mostly sedentary and includes no special physical demands. It may involve some walking, standing, bending, or carrying light items.

Other:

Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Benefits

As an employee of Middlebury College, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, Middlebury offers a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year during the first two years of service, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Middlebury employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs as well as free or reduced rates for cultural events and use of sporting facilities (including the College's golf course and Nordic and alpine ski areas). The result is a very high quality-of-life in a gorgeous setting. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and other perks of employment including:

• MiddCard Privileges: access to athletic facilities, discounts at the College store, library privileges, and discounts at cultural and sporting events. In addition, the card allows door access to certain campus buildings. Spouses or domestic partners of benefits-eligible employees are eligible to receive a Spouse/Partner card with the same privileges as the employee card (except door access).
• Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and the Rikert Outdoor Center.
• Access to our Partner Inclusion Program that provides comprehensive support services to the spouses and partners of Middlebury employees.
• A full listing of our benefit offerings can be found on our website by following this web link: https://go.middlebury.edu/benefits
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