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Do you enjoy problem-solving and working with data? Then keep reading because the University Library (UB) is looking for you!

Job description

"Supporting your academic goals" is what we focus on at the university library. One of those goals is to maintain a well-functioning library system to ensure optimal service to end users. That is why we are looking for a colleague who wants to contribute to seamless library systems and works towards optimizing the discoverability and accessibility of our physical and digital research- and education collections.

It is important that you are comfortable working with data in order to combine and analyze data from different source systems managed by the library.

You will work together with various departments of the UB, the ICT Service Center (ICTS), and vendors of integrated library systems. Additionally, you will maintain contacts and share best practices with other universities or vendors, for example, in the area of library system configurations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a bridge between IT and the business: You will bridge the gap between the functional needs and requirements of key users regarding the system and the technical solutions that can be developed (internally by our own developers or externally by the vendor).
• Optimizing work processes and identifying improvements: You will work in the back-end of the system and translate our work processes into system functionality. You will do this in consultation with key users and support them in finding solutions and best practices. In collaboration with the vendor, you will continuously search for product and process improvements.
• Coordinating/testing new functionalities: When a developer or the system vendor delivers new functionalities, you will understand their impact on the system's operation and test them in practice to ensure their proper functioning and communicate the updated functionality to key users.
• Performing analyses on various data from the library management system and related data sources within the library: You will conduct analyses on output from the library system, such as evaluating the usage of collections when new contracts with publishers need to be renegotiated. You may need to combine this data with publication statistics to evaluate the contracts that consist of both a Read and Publish component.

Requirements

Are you the colleague we are looking for? Then you are someone who enjoys working in a team but can also work independently. You can quickly grasp systems, and you have analytical and problem-solving skills.

Furthermore, you have:

• Higher Professional Education (HBO) or academic working and thinking level;
• Proficiency in both written and spoken Dutch and English;
• Advanced knowledge of Excel or basic knowledge of SQL is required. You are also willing to learn to work with server databases like SQL, including building basic knowledge of SQL programming and the standard tasks associated with an SQL server and database. This knowledge is necessary for bulk processing, combining, and analyzing various system data;
• Experience with library systems such as WorldShare and/or ExLibris 360 Core is a plus;
• Knowledge of metadata standards is a plus.

Conditions of employment

Fixed-term employment: 1 year with the possibility of a permanent contract.

As a functional administrator at the UB, you will be employed by the most international university in the Netherlands, located in beautiful Maastricht. We offer you:

• An interesting and challenging position for 30.4-38 hours per week (0.8-1.0 FTE).
• Space and facilities to develop yourself personally and in the latest technology. This takes place partly in-house but also with external (online) partners.
• Good employment conditions: this position is classified in the UFO profile Functional (Information) Admin level 2. Depending on experience, you will be placed in pay scale 9 of the Collective Labor Agreement for Dutch Universities (€3,098 - €4,257 per month).
• In addition to the monthly salary, an 8.0% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus are applicable.
• In addition to good primary employment conditions, UM also offers a comprehensive package of secondary employment conditions. These include: flexible working hours, 232 vacation hours per year with a full-time appointment (with the possibility to expand this to 328 hours per year by working an additional 2 hours per week), a good pension scheme, the possibility of working from home with a facilitated home workplace, use of sports facilities, parental leave, and a flexible employment conditions menu.
• The appointment will initially be temporary for a period of 1 year. Upon proven suitability, the appointment for this position will be converted into an indefinite employment contract.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM

Employer

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 22,000 students and about 5,000 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

Department

University Library

Supporting your academic goals, that's what we stand for as the University Library. We are closely connected to the academic world and are crucial for students, lecturers, and researchers in the digital transition within this community. We contribute to UM's Open Science policy, the movement that further increases the impact of science, by focusing our service on opening up and making scientific information transparent. The UB is also undergoing development itself, providing our professionals with ample opportunities to demonstrate their entrepreneurship and grow along with it. We do this with a highly motivated and very collegial team that values everyone's well-being. Will you join this team?

If you want to learn more about the services of the UB, watchour video Or take a look at the website and discover our information and services.

Additional information

Curious?

Have you become enthusiastic about this vacancy but still have questions?

Ivo Zelis (Product owner Library Systems) will be happy to answer them.

You can contact him at ivo.zelis@maastrichtuniversity.nl or +31 6 23847404

Or are you already convinced and will you become our new functional manager? Apply now, but no later than May 25 , for this position.

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