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Job Description

Introduction Are you a passionate advocate for open science and open scholarship? Do you have first-hand experience implementing open scholarship practices in the research workflow? Then don’t hesitate to read on and apply! Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is hiring an Open Science Advisor to increase the awareness and adoption of open scholarship practices among researchers and professional services staff. You will join Engagement & Research Services (ERS) -- a dynamic department within Professional Services at EUR -- and join the Open & Responsible Science (ORS) team of community and engagement managers, data stewards, and ethics professionals, to achieve the ambitious goal of making open scholarship the default way of working at EUR. Job Description Your main tasks and responsibilities will be the following: Advice for Research Inform and advise academics, professional services, and management on how open scholarship practices can increase academic and societal impact. Example: you are invited to provide feedback on the open science policy of a faculty. Inform and advise academics in creating, describing, publishing, using, and archiving results of academic research and impact activities in line with open scholarship principles. Example: you provide a researcher with the necessary information for them to start their first preregistration or to apply open scholarship principles to their engaged research project. Advise and support academics and grant officers on how to organically embed open scholarship in funding applications. Example: you discuss with an NWO Vidi grant applicant and a grant officer what (project-specific) information on open scholarship could be included in the funding application. Teaching Contribute to improving education and training on open scholarship by developing, maintaining, and/or teaching courses and workshops. Example: you update the current EUR ORS MOOC in close collaboration with a project coordinator, the coordinator of the educational ORS framework, and other experts in- and outside EUR. Collaboration You cooperate with other units at ERS (Research Management, Grant Support, and Innovation & Partnerships), departments at EUR (e.g., library, IT), the Hub for Impactful & Engaged Research, and strategy programs (e.g., Recognition & Rewards) to increase awareness, facilitate support, and align institutional activities (directly and indirectly) related to open scholarship. Example: you help organize an event on how open scholarship can support the diversification of academic career paths, e.g., by brainstorming specific topics of interest and inviting internal/external speakers from relevant networks. You advise on and co-formulate the ORS ambitions for the EUR, in close collaborations with academic and professional services staff as well as School and executive management. Other You may dedicate some time to research, to keep up to date and contribute to (inter)national conversations on open scholarship. Example: you co-author an opinion piece on new ways to involve citizens in co-creating research questions that are relevant for academics and the public alike. Job Requirements You recognize yourself in the following description: You have an academic background (minimum MSc/MA) You adhere to the values of open scholarship and support their practical implementation You have first-hand experience with various open scholarship practices (e.g., open data, open code, societal engagement) You effectively and persuasively communicate with people coming from different (academic) SSH disciplines and in various stages in their career, from a PhD candidate to a Dean Your networking skills allow you to build bridges and mitigate conflict in order to achieve a common goal You are meticulous (e.g., in advising on, writing, and reviewing policy) You are fluent in English (minimum CEFR-level C1) Recommended (experience in the following would be a bonus): You have completed a PhD in a discipline where open scholarship is actively discussed (e.g., psychology) You have experience in teaching open scholarship values, practices, and/or tools (e.g., by means of lectures or workshops) You have (co-)authored documents (e.g., blog posts, opinion pieces, academic papers, policy documents) discussing open scholarship You read Dutch (minimum B1) Employment Conditions And Benefits We offer you an internationally oriented and varied job in an enthusiastic team, with excellent working conditions in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU). The start date of this position is 1 January 2027 and you will be based at campus Woudestein in Engagement & Research Services (ERS). This position is for 0.8 fte - 1 fte. The salary is dependent on your experience and knowledge and ranges from a minimum of € 4.925 to a maximum of € 6.682 gross per month Scale 11 on a fulltime basis (38 hours), in accordance with the CAO-NU. The contract is offered for a period of 1 year and can be converted into an employment contract for an indefinite period if suitability is proven and if continued in the same position, if (financial and/or organizational) circumstances remain the same. Everything else we offer you; you can find below! Everything you need for a good work-life balance: the option to work from home in consultation with your manager, 41 days of paid leave with a 40 hour contract, 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus, and a significant discount on a subscription for our on-campus sports centre (https://erasmussport.nl/en/)! Sustainable, inclusive and diverse work environment with an open culture, where you can be yourself and we pay attention to each other and to the world around us. Make the most of our bicycle budget, or join networks such as Young@EUR (https://www.linkedin.com/company/young-eur/?originalSubdomain=nl), FAME (https://www.eur.nl/en/about-eur/vision/inclusion-diversity-equity-access/networks/female-academics-moving-toward-equity-fame), EUR Disability Staff Network or QuEUR. Time and space for your development in the broadest sense: development days and a personal career budget (https://www.eur.nl/en/media/2025-02-brochure-working-eur-january-2025) and free access to our university library (https://www.eur.nl/en/library). Good pension with ABP (https://www.eur.nl/en/media/2023-06-brochure-working-eurengjanuari-2023) that EUR contributes 2/3rds towards, discounts on various collective insurances (https://www.eur.nl/en/media/2025-02-brochure-working-eur-january-2025) with Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Loyalis, and Allianz, and compensation for travel, working from home and home internet use. Are you currently combining your job with parenthood, or do you want to do so in the future? EUR offers partially paid parental leave and fully paid additional birth leave for partners (https://www.eur.nl/en/media/2021-08-brochure-family-friendliness-en-06052021-5), and our campus features a daycare (https://www.eur.nl/en/services/partou-childcare-centre) (daycare not paid for by EUR). Moving to the Netherlands for your job with EUR? Then you may be eligible for the Expat-ruling (https://www.eur.nl/en/media/2025-02-brochure-working-eur-january-2025)if you meet the requirements of the Belastingdienst (Dutch tax agency), and with our Dual Career Programme (https://www.eur.nl/en/working-at-eur/international-staff/dual-career-programme) we will also help your partner find the right job for them. Employer Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 4.100 academics and professionals and almost 33.000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl (http://www.eur.nl). Faculty / Institute / Central service Engagement & Research Services (ERS) advances excellent research and engagement to maximize positive societal impact. ERS creates conditions for transparent, inclusive, collaborative, and impactful research through strategic and operational expertise. We provide pathways for talents to reach their full potential and we advance fruitful collaborations, enabling Erasmus University to be a front runner in embedding excellent research in society. The following areas of support are embedded within ERS: Business Development, Grant Support, Legal Counsels, Open Science, Research Data Management, Ethics Review and Research Intelligence. ERS is a relatively young service department within Erasmus University Rotterdam and is steadily building and extending its service portfolio. ERS provides support to all faculties of Erasmus University Rotterdam (occasionally to Erasmus University Medical Center). Department Within ERS, the Open & Responsible Science team provides professional advice and support to enable the adoption of ORS principles and innovative research practices within EUR. Additional Information For additional information, please contact Office Engagement and Research Services ([email protected]). Applying Please submit your application, consisting of a one-page CV and a one-page motivation letter, no later than October 28th, 2026, before 23:59 CET. The selection procedure consists of two rounds of interviews. The first round will take place on November 10th 2026. The second round will be held on November 16th 2026. In case of equal suitability, internal candidates will be preferred. We appreciate a disclosure if LLMs are used to generate the CV and/or the cover letter. Recruitment and selection agencies or headhunters: thank you for thinking along with us, but we prefer to recruit our candidates ourselves. We look forward to receiving your application!

Core Responsibilities

Advise researchers, professional services staff, and management on applying open scholarship practices, including research planning, publishing, archiving, and funding applications. Develop and deliver training, collaborate across university teams to advance open and responsible science, and contribute to institutional strategy and wider research discussions.

Requirements

A minimum MSc or MA and first-hand experience with open scholarship practices are required, along with fluent English at CEFR C1 or higher. Candidates should communicate persuasively across disciplines and career levels, build collaborative networks, and work meticulously; a PhD, teaching experience, relevant writing, and Dutch reading ability are advantageous.

Benefits

• Paid Leave
• Holiday Pay
• End-of-Year Bonus
• Sports Centre Subscription Discount
• Bicycle Budget
• Professional Development Days
• Personal Career Budget
• University Library Access
• Pension Plan
• Collective Insurance Discounts
• Travel Compensation
• Work-from-Home Compensation
• Home Internet Compensation
• Paid Parental Leave
• Additional Paid Birth Leave
• Childcare Centre
• Dual Career Programme