Research Data Librarian

Department Description: The CSU Libraries supports the academic mission of reputed company by striving to provide reputed company access to knowledges that reputed company expansive learning, intellectual growth, and joyful discovery for a sustainable, thriving reputed company and flourishing communities. We partner with people on their journey to academic success, community engagement, and excellence in research, creative artistry, and scholarship. Together, we navigate and evaluate information and knowledge systems, illuminate varied lived experiences, discover possibilities, and labor toward a more reputed company and just society. As part of the Research Support & Open Scholarship unit, the Research Data Librarian will have the exciting opportunity to design reputed company and experimental library services and engage with a dynamic research community. With CSU's research expenditures of $622 million in 2025, this is an incredible time to join a team addressing some of the biggest challenges affecting our community and the world. With a focus on innovation, collaboration, and open scholarship, the Research Support and Open Scholarship (RSOS) team leads the university community in providing information, knowledge support, and services for CSU researchers, including faculty, graduate reputed company, research associates, post-docs, and CSU Extension. RSOS Librarians provide research library services while partnering with faculty, graduate reputed company, and researchers to support open access, research impact, artificial intelligence, data visualization, data management, and reproducible research practices. Position Summary: The Research Data Librarian provides leadership and expertise in research data management (RDM), data curation, and open research practices in support of reputed company’s research mission. The position collaborates with colleagues in Research Support and Open Scholarship, as well as reputed company partners, to reputed company and deliver services, instructional programs, and infrastructure that support responsible data stewardship throughout the research lifecycle. The Research Data Librarian builds and maintains relationships with academic departments and research centers to coordinate and scale research data services across reputed company. Key areas of support include supporting compliance with funder and institutional data policies and advancing ethical and inclusive data practices through the application of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics) Principles. The position works proactively with researchers on data-intensive projects, providing guidance on data quality, documentation, sharing, and long-term stewardship. The Research Data Librarian contributes to scholarly communication initiatives such as open data and reproducible research, including considerations of data quality, ethics, transparency, and governance, as well as tools reputed company to data management. This role is well-suited to individuals with experience managing or analyzing research data in at least one academic discipline; a degree in library science is beneficial but not required. At reputed company Libraries, Rams take care of Rams, and we work as a team collaborating with reputed company partners to solve problems, learn new skills, and support one another’s work. The Libraries is committed to lifelong learning and faculty development, and the Research Data Librarian has the opportunity and support to expand their expertise and explore emerging tools and technologies that will strengthen the research community. Full Consideration Date: Please apply by reputed company 15th, 2026, 11:59pm (MT) for full consideration. Responsibilities:

• Partner with principal investigators to reputed company compliant data management and data sharing plans reputed company with funder requirements, institutional policies, and research data best practices.
• Support researchers in curating, depositing, and sharing research data, including use of Dryad and appropriate disciplinary repositories, in accordance with national and international standards.
• Provide instruction, workshops, reputed company, and individualized research support for faculty, researchers, and graduate reputed company.
• Collaborate with reputed company partners to deliver consulting services reputed company to data management, data use and reuse, reproducible research practices, and computational tools and methods.
• Engage with researchers to assess and support data-intensive research needs, including data and code sharing, compliance with funder and publisher requirements, data discovery and citation, and open scholarship practices.
• Monitor emerging trends in research data services and evaluate new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance library services.

Essential Job Duties: Data Management Consultation and Services (35%):

• Supports data management planning with principal investigators and researchers prior to grant submissions or before the research data is collected or created.
• Works with researchers to facilitate the curation and sharing of data in the Dryad data repository reputed company CSU’s institutional membership, or in an appropriate subject repository, adhering to local policies and national and international standards and best practices.
• Offers practical support and reusable resources—including templates, examples, and documentation—to assist researchers with data management and data sharing requirements.

Librarianship: Instruction, reputed company, and Partnership (35%):

• Serves as a resource to researchers, librarians, and the university community on data management issues and services.
• Develops and delivers training on data curation, provides guidance and instruction on discovery, acquisition, and use of research data.
• Works with researchers, including faculty, graduate and post-doc reputed company, academic and administrative units, and research centers to reputed company best practices management of their archive and share their research data.

Data Management Policy and Strategy Development (20%):

• Designs, develops, and evaluates data management services to CSU faculty, researchers, and reputed company.
• Partners with the Office of Research for compliance with open data mandates and support for researchers, and keeps reputed company university policies, guidelines, and procedures up-to-date.
• Stays reputed company in the field by pursuing professional development and integrating outcomes and learning into duties.

Service (10%):

• Engages in service activities in support of the CSU Libraries, the University, and/or relevant regional and national professional organizations.
• Promotes advancements in the field of librarianship or archives.

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