[Dspace-general] Repository job opportunities at the University of Wales Aberystwyth (x3)

[Stuart Lewis [sdl]]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear all,

The University of Wales Aberystwyth (http://www.aber.ac.uk/) is pleased to announce three exciting new repository posts:

 - Repository Support Officer (Technical)**
 - Repository Support Officer (Organisational)
 - Repository Research Programmer

**50% of the Repository Support Officer (Technical) post has been funded to provide a DSpace support service to English and Welsh Higher Education institutions. When not busy with support, the post holder will be able to contribute coding effort to DSpace. There will be a similar post offering support for GNU Eprints users.

Full details can be found at: 
 - http://www.aber.ac.uk/human-resources/en/vacancies.htm

Please feel free to email Stuart Lewis (stuart.lewis at aber.ac.uk) with any formal or informal enquiries.

Brief details as follows:

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INFORMATION SERVICES
£20,645 - £30,902 (All posts)

Applications are invited for three fixed term posts associated with the Repository Support Project (RSP) and with the  Robot-generated Open Access Data (ROAD) Project, both funded by the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme.

REPOSITORY SUPPORT OFFICER (2 POSTS)
As members of the RSP you will assist HEIs in Wales and England to establish and develop digital institutional repositories; you will be graduates with an interest in repository development and have highly developed communication, organisational and information skills. One post holder will provide technical guidance and advice on the installation, configuration, customisation and use of repository software, particularly DSpace, and will have appropriate programming skills and familiarity with repository software platforms. The other will help institutions to populate digital repositories and embed them into the organisational culture and will be able to provide practical advice and support in such areas as advocacy, open access, standards and digital rights management. Both posts are available until 31 March 2009 and will be based in Aberystwyth but will involve travel to other HEIs in Wales on a regular basis. A full driving licence is essential and ability to speak Welsh would be an advantage.

REPOSITORY RESEARCH PROGRAMMER
As a member of the ROAD project, managed jointly by Information Services and the Department of Computer Science, you will investigate the suitability of different open source repository software packages as platforms for the creation and use of digital data repositories. A graduate with an interest in the development of data repositories, you will have appropriate programming skills (including Java web programming, database programming, Perl web programming as well as good UNIX and Windows programming experience) and be able to gain sufficient technical understanding of the Robot Scientist to be able to create a data repository. The post is based in Aberystwyth and is available until 31 December 2008.

Closing date for all positions: 13 December 2006.

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Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth                      Information Services
Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth       University of Wales Aberystwyth

            E-bost / E-mail: Stuart.Lewis at aber.ac.uk
                 Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860            
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