Datamanager SURF Journal Catalogue

Are you enthusiastic about the management and further development of our internal catalogue, a crucial data source for our stakeholders? Do you have a lot of experience with data enrichment and data management? Would you also like to brainstorm with colleagues about the efficient use of the contracts for our SURF institutions? Then respond to this vacancy now!

Where you will work

SURF is the ICT cooperative for Dutch educational and research institutions. Together with them, we work on digital services and complex innovation challenges to enhance the quality of education and research.

By 2025, we will have more than 70 agreements with various publishers. We renew and/or extend various agreements annually with a strong emphasis on Open Access. As Data Manager SURF Journal Catalogue (SJC) Content Purchasing (CP), you make an important contribution to the accessibility of science.

The team you will join

You will be working in the close-knit Content Purchasing team. From 2026, this will fall under Accessible and Open Education & Research. Content Purchasing (C-I) realises purchasing and contract management for universities, colleges and research institutes with scientific publishers and other library service providers. As an important source for our contracts, we manage the SURF Journal Catalogue (SJC). We started this as a collection of bibliographic information on 30,000 mainly academic journals. Open Access (OA) publication rights and/or reading rights apply according to the agreements made with higher education.

The SJC is the primary data source we use to monitor whether contracts are being utilised sufficiently. We also provide information about this to researchers at the institutions. This information is crucial for researchers when deciding in which journal to publish their research. This information was kept in Excel since 2001, but was converted to a database in Power Apps in 2024.

What you will do

We are looking for someone who can manage the SJC and develop it further in close collaboration with the UKB contract manager, the UKBsis programme manager and the manager of our workflow system ConsortiaManager. You know how to expand data fields for relevant data enrichment and you are familiar with bibliographic data. You will be closely involved in the ongoing development of the SJC.

Other tasks you will handle

• Your primary task will be to provide reports and input for title lists in contracts within your own team.
• You will be primarily responsible for the smooth and frequent transfer of new data sets to our chain partners WUR Journalbrowser and UKBsis Datahub, as agreed.
• You will work closely with the CI team to give data and data analysis a broader/permanent place within the team's activities.
• You will work closely with the UKBsis programme manager and with data and technical management departments within SURF.
• You will work with the UKB lead contract manager on data mining and renegotiation analyses.
• You conduct feasibility studies at the request of the contract manager, contract management system administrator, UKBsis programme manager. To this end, you identify opportunities based on the needs of the organisation and stakeholders.
• You advise stakeholders, both solicited and unsolicited, based on the data.

Your skills and experience

• You have experience in maintaining and/or managing large data sets (e.g. with bibliographic data and metadata).
• You are familiar with the library system at university level and the UKB (and SHB) consortia. In addition, you are a good discussion partner on links with relevant systems.
• You are accurate and responsible for the quality and topicality of the data, and you are able to handle this with great precision.
• You make an important contribution to the organisation of processes and procedures, both within the team and with regard to links with chain partners.
• You have strong communication skills and understand the importance of good relationships with various stakeholders.

SURF takes pleasure in doing its recruitment itself; acquisition is therefore not appreciated.