Junior Open Access Manager (RCS-SIS-2025-105-GRAE)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

The Open Science section within the CERN Scientific Information Service promotes the openness, preservation and discovery of high-energy physics (HEP) research.

One of the activities of the section is to ensure open access to CERN's research publications through a range of strategies including transformative agreements with publishers and SCOAP3, a global partnership working to achieve disciplinary open access through collective action.

The Junior Open Access Manager supports operation management of all Open Access activities. This includes a wide range of activities: liaising with authors to provide guidance, controlling compliance of CERN articles with Open Access policy, and ensuring regular monitoring.

Within SCOAP3, the Junior Open Access Manager is supporting the coordination of the project with partners from all over the world.

The Junior Open Access Manager is also involved in other Open Science projects in collaboration with various departments at CERN.

This role also contributes to the overall strategic development of the CERN Open Science ecosystem.

Your profile

Skills:

• Knowledge of Open Access Models, Policies, and the academic publishing market;
• Interest and first experience in Open Science;
• Metadata management/curation;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Service-oriented communication;
• Adaptability and flexibility;
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Library and Information Science (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is a general secondary education diploma.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants with a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree are not eligible.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 03.07.2025 at 23:59 CEST.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-November-2025

Job reference: RCS-SIS-2025-105-GRAE

Field of work: Support Services (Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement)

What we offer

• A monthly stipend of 4624 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.

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