[Metadatalibrarians] Job Announcement: CISER Research Data Management Librarian, Cornell University

[Glen S. Wiley]

CISER Research Data Management Librarian
Cornell University
The Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) seeks an innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented professional to build an exemplary university-based environment for social science research data management. CISER has strengths in computational infrastructure, secure data storage, and a robust restricted data and sharing environment and a data archive that dates to 1981. The successful applicant will spearhead efforts to develop infrastructure supporting the data lifecycle, enhanced access and discovery tools, and data reservation. Cornell social scientists are on the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research questions using complex data resources. Growing recognition of the value of data management and preservation practices affords CISER and its Cornell partners with opportunities to support a lifecycle approach to data management.
The individual in this position will play a key role in anticipating, developing, and implementing services to support this activity. She or he will bring a social science perspective to bear on existing research data investments supported by the Cornell University Library; for example, DataStar [datastar.mannlib.cornell.edu] and DISCOVER [arecibo.tc.cornell.edu/DRSG/] Professional research data management encompasses many skills, capacities, and knowledge areas. Responsibilities: - Provide expertise and support in the areas of data management, metadata production, data organization and preservation, access and discovery tools to promote secondary analysis and reuse. Contribute to data management outreach efforts on the Cornell campus and act as a resource person to researchers in the social sciences. Assist researchers writing grant-required data management plans. - Assist with the implementation and deployment of the DDI and other metadata standards to the CISER data archive. Work with other data, metadata, and technology experts at Cornell and beyond to develop and apply new data access and discovery tools for CISER-held data. - Supervise helpdesk staff providing front line software, computing, and data-use consulting. Manage consulting tasks and priorities. - Teach CISER workshops on important social and economic data resources, or on topics such as Introductory SAS, Stata, or SPSS when needed. Develop new workshops and training opportunities as needed.
The successful candidate will be a dynamic individual with a strong proclivity to explore new methods for enhancing the services CISER provides to researchers. She or he will not fear experimentation, innovation, change, success, or occasional failure in developing research data management services and will understand how to build successful teams and how to coach staff as they build new skills.  She or he will thrive in a field that will continue to experience constant change and will be comfortable to leave behind methods that no longer support the goals and mission of a social science research support unit.

Qualifications: Master's degree in Library and Information Science or relevant social science discipline. - Experience with metadata practices and standards such as DDI, OAI-PMH, MODS, METS, PREMIS, FGDC or MARC. - Demonstrated interest in cutting-edge web-based technologies for augmentation, presentation, or manipulation of research data; an enthusiasm to promote use of such tools to empower Cornell social scientists. - Knowledge and experience with social science statistical software such as SAS, Stata, SPSS, or R. - Experience working with large social science datasets and familiarity with major data resources such as ICPSR and the U.S. Census Bureau. - Demonstrated evidence of excellent communications and interpersonal skills. Preferred Qualifications: - Knowledge of qualitative data analysis software such as Atlas.ti. - Knowledge or experience of GIS data and software, such as ArcGIS. - Experience teaching workshops of a technical nature. - Supervisory experience.

To be considered an applicant, apply online through the Jobs at Cornell website at http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/jobs, position #11787. Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, is an inclusive, dynamic, and innovative Ivy League university and New York's land-grant institution. Its staff, faculty, and students impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas and best practices to further the university's mission of teaching, research, and outreach. Cornell University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer.

Apply Online:http://www.apply-for-job.net/c/jobclick.cfm?site=2701&job=6295263

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Glen Wiley
Chief Metadata Librarian and Head, Metadata and Batch Processing Services
Central Library Operations, Cornell University
107B Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853-5301
e: gsw55 at cornell.edu
t:  607.255.3973