Community Manager (Research Data Interoperability)

Are you excited about open science and the FAIR principles? Do you want to play a key role in improving the interoperability of research data and advance how data is shared and used in science?

As the Community Manager for Research Data Interoperability, you will engage with researchers and collaborate with faculty data stewards, data managers, and ontology experts to improve the culture of research data management at TU Delft. The goal of your work is to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of research data management - bringing together interested parties and contributing to a scientific culture where the data created by research projects can be more easily shared, found, analysed and understood.

In this role, you will be embedded in the Research Data and Software team, based at the TU Delft Library. You will work closely with the staff from the team, particularly the data managers. But you will also work across the university, with researchers and data stewards based in the faculties. You will also be part of the TU Delft Digital Competence Centre, a collaboration of TU Delft Library and ICT Innovation, which offers expertise in data and software management to specific research projects.

Your tasks will include:

• Engaging with the research community and relevant stakeholders to understand current practices in research data management and to identify challenges and opportunities related to interoperability of that data.
• Developing and implementing a communication strategy to raise awareness and to promote best practices about interoperability, ontologies, and metadata standards among researchers and data professionals.
• Organising information sessions and community events.
• Creating outreach materials, blog posts, newsletters, and social media content.
• Organising sessions to facilitate co-creation of disciplinary metadata/ontologies.
• Collaborating with faculty data stewards and Digital Competence Centre at TU Delft and ontology experts at the national network of Thematic Digital Competence Centres to exchange expertise and strengthen interoperability efforts.
• Developing and implementing a sustainability strategy for interoperability practices.
• Supporting and guiding the TU Delft community to adopt best practices in interoperability.

This is a temporary position funded by NWO to enable an exploratory project to improve data interoperability practices at TU Delft.

• You have a completed academic education (PhD is a plus) and have good knowledge of the scientific research process.
• You have affinity with or experience in research data management, with a focus on data interoperability and the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
• You have knowledge of or interest in metadata standards, vocabularies, and tools supporting data interoperability.
• You are an excellent communicator, able to engage diverse stakeholders and foster collaboration.
• You have interest in engaging with and bringing together different communities and stakeholders to work on a common goal.
• You can work both independently and collaboratively.
• You have a good command of English, written and spoken (If not a Dutch speaker, a willingness to learn Dutch to level A2)

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

TU Delft Library is the largest technical-scientific library in the Netherlands, a physical and virtual meeting place. The Library helps to find valuable knowledge needed for education and research, and to publish and store the knowledge generated at TU Delft. We believe it is important that knowledge is easily accessible and freely available to everyone. In this way, knowledge can flow freely and TU Delft's knowledge can become valuable to others. The Library is also a place where everyone can study in peace and quiet. This fits in with our inclusive organisation. The Library has chosen three strategic themes to guide its daily activities. 1) Open Science. We make an important contribution to TU Delft's broad strategic programme "Open Science - Research and Education in the Open Era". 2) Visibility and impact. With our expertise and tools in the field of research data management, research intelligence and publishing, we increase the findability, visibility and impact of TU Delft knowledge. 3) Inspiring learning and working environment. Through stimulating programming, we show how freely available and reliable knowledge makes life richer. This makes the Library a place where you can find new ideas and insights.

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28 April 2025 via the application button and upload the following documents:

• CV
• Motivational letter

Please note that your application must be in English.

Please note:

• A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
• For the final candidates, a knowledge security check will be part of the application procedure. For more information on this check, please consult Chapter 8 of the National Knowledge Security Guidelines. We carry out this check on the basis of legitimate interest.
• Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.