Overview
Job Title: Open Research Lead
Job Reference: REQ250670
Date Posted: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Application Closing Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT
Location: Loughborough
Package: Management and Specialist grade 7 from £46735 to £55755 per annum. Subject to annual pay award.
Loughborough
University Library
Full Time, Open
Ended
Loughborough University Library has an
exciting opportunity to join our Library Leadership Team as our
Open Research Lead.
In this post you will lead the strategic
development and management of the Librarys support for Open
Research, working across the University to further our
institutional ambitions. Our Open Research team, which you will
lead and manage, also includes our Archivist and our Copyright
and Licensing Manager, ensuring that this interesting role can
explore opening up research from a variety of angles.
Reporting to the Deputy Director of Library
Services, you will be a member of our collaborative Library
Leadership Team helping to shape our services for the future. You
will deliver activity against identified areas of Library
strategic focus, working across formal operational
structures.
You will be proactive and enthusiastic with
leadership and management experience. You will possess strong
collaboration and influencing skills combined with the ability to
motivate and lead change.
You will have knowledge of the open
research landscape, including the academic open publishing
environment, reproducibility of research and factors that
increase research discovery. You will be able to apply this
knowledge to support open research service provision in-line with
Library and University strategy.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a
leading University and be part of its continued success.
We are committed to equality of
opportunity, eliminating discrimination and creating an inclusive
working environment for everyone. We welcome and encourage
applications from all sections of the community.
Whilst the role is expected to be primarily
campus based, there is some allowance for home working under our
dynamic working arrangement.
For further details please refer to the
Job Description and Person
Specification.
For an informal discussion about the role
please contact Helen Young, Deputy Director of Library Services,
email h.young@lboro.ac.uk or phone
01509 222346
Deadline for applications: 17 September 2025.
Expected interview date: 15 October 2025.
