The Claremont Colleges Services is hiring: Open Publishing Applications Speciali

The Open Publishing Applications Specialist (OPAS) will join a highly motivated team of librarians to support open access and open publication, and enhance discovery and delivery of scholarship, creative works, data, and more. This position will provide technical support and trainings for our current suite of scholarly communication and open publishing applications, which includes The Claremont Colleges Digital Library (CCDL), Scholarship@Claremont (S@C) and Pressbooks. This role builds connections to internal and external applications and uses creativity and innovation to create new and exciting applications that improve the development, access, and discovery of open educational resources. This role works within established IT standards and practices to support and expand our digital scholarship infrastructure, including the institutional repository, Scholarship@Claremont, open educational resources, and digital publishing platforms, such as the CCDL. They will be committed to providing excellent service and to developing effective and efficient workflows to ensure that our Open Publishing programs continue to meet the research, teaching and learning needs of The Claremont Colleges.* Contributes to the development and customization of open-source publishing tools in alignment with institutional needs and open access principles.* Leads the technical development and support of emerging open publishing technologies and platforms, including those supporting open educational resources (OERs), student scholarship, and faculty publications hosted on Scholarship@Claremont.* Collaborates with library and institutional partners to build sustainable workflows for open educational publishing and other scholarly outputs.* Maintains applications and workflows that support academic publishing services for platforms such as CONTENTdm and Bepress Digital Commons* Provides one-on-one or small group training for library staff, faculty, and/or students on how to use applications and tools such as migrating Open Educational Resources (OERs), as needed.* Collaborates with relevant Library colleagues in designing and implementing integrations between digital library platforms, including CONTENTdm, for open publishing and campus systems such as learning management systems or other third-party tools via APIs or custom development solutions.* Collaborates with TCCS IT and library colleagues to support a secure, scalable, and sustainable technology environment.* Contributes to policy and process development related to open scholarship and publishing in collaboration with the Digital Initiatives and Open Publishing head and the Open Publishing and Digital Production Associate.* Maintains current knowledge of developments in open publishing and institutional repository management, and other aspects of evolving strategies for scholarly communications and open infrastructure technologies.* Participates as an active and engaged team member by attending unit meetings to discuss priorities and assist with solutions.* Contributes to unit planning and goal setting in support of the library’s strategic initiatives.* Welcomes and values everyone’s perspectives; is committed to fairness and to equal access to information.* Perform other related duties as assigned.* Minimum 2 years experience with the following: + Supporting institutional repository systems, including storing, organizing, securing, and sharing digital assets (Bepress Digital Commons, Pressbooks, Hyrax, DSpace, Islandora) + Working with prevalent library data formats such as MARC, DublinCore, XML, JSON, and Linked Open Data* Experience working in a collaborative environment, particularly in higher education, libraries, or cultural heritage institutions* Experience with enhancing or supporting digital accessibility* Knowledge of information systems for research discovery.* Ability to effectively train and support non-technical users (in the adoption and use of systems, tools or processes)* Strong organization, time management, and planning skills. Effective at meeting deadlines, adjusting priorities, and working on multiple projects simultaneously.* Open to learning and developing new skills* Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.* Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and researchers from many different communities.* Demonstrated ability to make decisions independently in a rapidly changing environment.* Knowledge of cloud-based or containerized application environments (Docker, AWS, Reclaim Cloud) with one or more programming or scripting languages (JavaScript or TypeScript, CSS, Python and/or PHP, SQL)* Experience with platform migration strategies* Understanding of open standards (IIIF), open data, and open research and their role in academic research* Experience in project review, analysis, development, planning, and assessment.This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this position. When duties and responsibilities change and develop, The Claremont Colleges Services will review this job description and make changes of business necessity. TCCS reserves the right to modify job duties or assign additional duties as needed.Experience the story of The Claremont Colleges as it unfolds through our inspiring beginnings, distinguished present, and bright future in the Celebrating 100 Years video, which highlights how innovation, integration, and excellence have shaped a century of collaboration.Like the institutions we serve, we recognize that we excel when we collaborate. We seek diverse staff members who are skilled and passionate about the work they do. 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