Research Output Curator

1 week ago

Pretoria, South Africa HSRC Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
The eResearch Knowledge Centre (eRKC) within the HSRC employs a group of practitioners and specialists in the areas of information services, geospatial analytics, and digital scholarship who provide knowledge services to enhance the HSRC’s research capability.

The **vision** of the eRKC is to enhance the HSRC’s research capability through innovative information services, geospatial solutions, and digital curation. The **mission** of the eRKC is to be an informed research enabler that provides innovative knowledge services and access to resources that meet the needs of the HSRC’s research community and its stakeholders. This is achieved by
- managing various resource collections and support the use thereof,
- supporting digital scholarship and providing support for organisation wide processes and requirements,
- supporting geospatial analytics in the HSRC, and
- raising awareness about best practices and building capacity in the HSRC.

The eRKC is looking to appoint a suitably qualified professional to take on the responsibilities of a Research Output (publications) Curator. The main responsibilities of this position are to, as part of the Digital Scholarship Services team, facilitate best practice Research Output management to curate (preserve and share) HSRC research output publications, and promote the use thereof

**Minimum Requirements**:
This position requires knowledge and experience in the area of research output management. A specific skill set that combines accuracy and attention to detail, knowledge of basic cataloguing rules, Dublin Core metadata standards and abstracting, working knowledge of using repository software and scholarship support is required. The requirements are the following:

- Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / or equivalent qualification in the social or information sciences discipline;
- At least 5 years’ experience in a research output curation context.
- High proficiency in MS Office.
- Knowledge of metadata, keywords and abstracting practices;
- Knowledge of repository management; such as DSpace;
- Knowledge of creating social media content for promotion of research output
- Problem-solving skills and the ability to search for and implement innovative solutions;
- Good interpersonal skills and a strong service orientation which will contribute to cooperative and effective interaction with colleagues;
- Good planning, organising, and presentation skills;
- Proficiency in speaking and writing English.
- Willingness to work under pressure, according to plan, to meet deadlines.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Curate deposited research outputs by
- validating and assessing the completeness of the deposited Authorship Sign-off form, the quality of the copy of the output, the quality of the metadata provided, as well as any evidence documentation for audit purposes.
- Assessing the research output for inclusion in terms of the HSRC’s performance indicators and to verify copyright, confidentiality, as well as peer-review and accreditation status.
- Assigning structured metadata including an abstract and keywords to describe the research output and facilitate re-use.
- preparing files for preservation and dissemination.
- Train and assist staff in research units to deposit research outputs according to best practices and to ensure the audit requirements are adhered to.
- Ensure the optimal functioning of the repository.
- Maintain the repository by performing scheduled maintenance activities, including, retrospectively
- updating metadata records.
- curating research outputs.
- Aid discovery, manage access and support the responsible use of the research outputs collection by
- responding to research output enquiries in accordance with the eRKC SLA.
- provide requested outputs to users and record the information thereof.
- Create communication pieces for the internal newsletter as well as for social media to promote the HSRC’s research output publication.

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