Data Steward (maternity cover)

The Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment is looking for an interim Data Steward to support researchers in terms of research data and software management.

Job description

TU Delft is a strong advocate of open science and research data management. The Data Stewardship Programme at TU Delft aims to address data management needs across the campus in a disciplinary manner by embedding Data Stewards in every faculty. The Data Steward function is key to implementing FAIR data and software in daily research practice. The temporary Data Steward will take the lead in engaging with and training researchers and promoting better data and software management practices in this special field.

You are part of the support staff of the Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment. You report to the Director of Research and work closely with the faculty ICT manager, contract managers and the information security coordinator. Additionally, you are part of the university-wide Data Stewards team, coordinated by a coordinator located in the library. You also liaise with privacy, security, ethics and legal experts at university level.

Your main task is to advise and train PhD candidates, researchers and the faculty on research data and software management. More specifically, you will:

• Advise and support researchers in drafting data management and open science sections in grant proposals and Data Management Plans in line with funder, privacy and ethics regulations and intellectual property rights considerations.
• Assist researchers in planning the collection, storage, documentation and publication of data and software in research projects.
• Design and run disciplinary training events tailored to researchers’ needs and inspire researchers to participate at both faculty and university level.
• Act as spokesperson for your faculty on data and software management, and engage and enable researchers at your faculty to adopt good data and software management practices.
• Liaise with the Data Steward coordinator and other Data Stewards to streamline data and software management related workflows within TU Delft.
• Liaise with open science-related initiatives at university level, including the TU Delft Open Science Programme, Open Science Community Delft and TU Delft Digital Competence Centre, to engage with researchers and promote open science practices within the faculty.
• Facilitate community activities within the scope of your faculty research data and software management.
• Further develop and implement the data stewardship and open science strategy and policy for the faculty.

Job requirements

We are looking for candidates experienced with research methodologies relevant to the faculty's research.

The candidates:

• Have interest in and advocate for open science, FAIR data and software.
• Have a PhD or equivalent research experience in a relevant subject area.
• Have a broad understanding of how research operates and how data and software underpins reproducible research.
• Have good knowledge of and hands-on experience in managing and making research data and software reproducible.
• Have experience in designing research and handling personal data in compliance with the GDPR (desirable), or an interest in gaining more knowledge on this topic.
• Are excellent communicators, able to speak not only with researchers but also with other support staff, and are sensitive to organisation-specific culture and practices.
• Can work both independently and collaboratively.
• Are fluent in English. Dutch is a plus.

Conditions of employment

• Duration of contract is 7 months.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers on supplemental packages.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave.
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.