About this role
Open Science Advisor (0.8 - 1.0 FTE) Published Wednesday 14 Oct 2026 Deadline Wednesday 28 Oct 2026 Work area Policy & Advice Organisational unit Engagement & Research Services (ERS) Salary € 4.925 - € 6.682 Employment 0,8 fte - 1 fte 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 includ...