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The Center for Open Science (COS) is a non-profit with a mission to increase the openness, integrity and reproducibility of research. In support of open scholarship we provide infrastructure (i.e., Open Science Framework) to facilitate open practices, advocate for policy changes to incentivize adoption of open practices, and conduct research (metascience) to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions. 

As a culture change research and technology organization the COS team is multi-disciplinary and mission driven. We are looking for a motivated, seasoned Senior Human Resources Manager to bring existing experience and expertise to support the maturation of our organization to be effective at advancing its mission and an outstanding place to work.

The Senior Human Resources Manager will play a leadership role in improving the organization's performance evaluation process and provide managers and staff with training and professional development. They will be responsible for engaging the entire team to continue to cultivate a positive, supportive, and productive organizational culture. They will lead efforts for improving diversity, equity, and inclusion as a persistent organizational, mission-aligned priority. The Senior Human Resources Manager will be supported by the leadership team to advance these objectives.

Day-to-day responsibilities include: performance management, compensation, compliance, training, employee retention, recruiting, payroll, benefits and records retention. The Senior Human Resources Manager coordinates implementation of services, policies, and programs; reports to the Director of Finance. This position is both a strategic and hands-on role. 

COS maintains a full-time staff of approximately 50, most of whom are based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Like many organizations, COS is becoming more geographically distributed and maintains a strong virtual component of organizational activity, even outside of pandemic times. It is also possible that COS will add offices outside of the United States. The Senior HR manager will play a key role in adapting the organization’s people management processes to be effective with its evolving structure and distributed operations.

• Develop and implement a strategy for fostering a positive and productive organizational culture that engages all staff as stakeholders in that culture
• Align organizational practices with organizational values, particularly transparency, integrity, and inclusivity
• Promote evidence-based practices for improving human resource management and diversity, equity, and inclusion, including developing plans and tracking performance 
• Review existing performance management practices and implement improvements both in content and process
• Develop and implement a manager training plan, work with managers and staff to develop career opportunities and support retention
• Manage talent acquisition process, including recruitment, interviewing, hiring and onboarding of qualified job applicants, and collaborate with managers to understand skills and competencies required for open positions
• Manage personnel and associated confidential information
• Maintain compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; review policies and practices to maintain compliance.
• Create learning and development programs that provide internal development opportunities for staff 
• Provides support and guidance to management, and other staff when specialized, and sensitive questions and issues arise, and administers and executes tasks in delicate circumstances such as refereeing disputes, investigating allegations of wrongdoing, and administering disciplinary procedures.
• Coordinate benefits programs; processes and maintains 401(k) contributions and administration along with processing and maintaining payroll
• Analyze and respond to trends in compensation and benefits
• Maintain personnel files in compliance with applicable legal requirements and record retention schedules
• Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law.
• Manage the offboarding process including resignation documentation, exit interview, and all checklist items
• Coordinate employee annual review process and proactively work with managers to conduct effective check-ins and performance evaluations to ensure staff are properly resourced, engaged, and communicating with the team
• Serve as a resource for employees regarding HR processes, benefits questions, workplace concerns
• Maintain the Employee Manual and Policies and Procedures Manual with updated resolutions and other pertinent information

• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Highly efficient, task-oriented and able to prioritize tasks
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Thorough knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations.
• Proficient with cloud-based file management and sharing (Google docs)
• Proficiency with or the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS (Zenefits) and talent management (Lever) systems.

• Bachelors’ degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field preferred.
• At least 5-10 years of human resources management experience preferred

• Salary range $80,000 - $85,000 commensurate with experience. The position is located at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia.

COS offers full time employees:

• Competitive salaries
• 401(k) with employer match. COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days vacation in year one
• Paid family medical leave. COS offers paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition.
• Modern office space and other amenities

COS is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries.

Please submit a resume/CV and cover letter explaining your background and interest in the position here. Questions about the position and COS are welcome, and can be directed to jobs@cos.io.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is looking for an experienced senior software engineer to advance our mission of increasing the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research.  We’re looking for someone to help us build user-facing SPAs that provide a great user experience through performance and reliability. The perfect candidate for this role has worked in the commercial software space for a while but would now like to use their engineering skill to positively impact the world. We are more interested in your communication skills, passion, and ability than we are in the specific technologies that you use. A great developer will be a great developer in any language.

Founded in 2013, COS is a non-profit organization that has pushed for meaningful change in the scientific community. We've initiated large-scale reproducibility studies, challenged the incentive models of science publication, and built the OSF (the premier online framework for ensuring that science is open and available).  All of our software is free and open source, and we want to apply the same transparent and open principles to science.

• Front-End: Ember.js and TypeScript
• Back-End: Python, Django, Tornado, and Flask
• Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ
• Authentication: CAS (Java)
• Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Travis

• LEADERSHIP: Help lead and mentor a small team of developers building the front end of a Postgres-backed web application. Provide code review, mentorship, and guidance for junior- and mid- level developers
• ARCHITECTURE and DEVELOPMENT: Make evidence- and experience- backed architecture decisions for new and existing products.  Write clean, maintainable, and well-designed code. Troubleshoot and improve legacy systems
• COORDINATION: Help triage and prioritize projects and products to meet business needs. Plan releases and organize migrations in concert with devops

• Ability to make and drive technical decisions to completion
• Great communication, including thoughtful listening skills, the ability to express complex ideas clearly and succinctly, and the ability to communicate well in writing
• Demonstrate expert-level understanding of Javascript and ideally TypeScript
• Experience in at least one front-end web application framework (e.g. Ember.js, Vue.js, Angular, React)
• Demonstrated experience in front-end testing best practices
• Expert in software design principles
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience mentoring other engineers
• Ability to work independently, and passionate about software engineering concepts
• Experience collaborating with teams across and outside the organization
• Track record leading teams to timely and effective project completion

COS offers full time employees:

• 401(k) with employer match. COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days vacation in year one
• Paid family medical leave. COS offers paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition
• Modern office space and other amenities
• COS promotes a flexible work environment that supports a healthy work/life balance

COS is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries.

Please submit a resume and cover letter explaining your background and interest in the position here. Questions about the position and COS are welcome and can be directed to jobs@cos.io. You can also see more on GitHub.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is dedicated to improving research practices to accelerate discovery. COS is a nonprofit technology and advocacy organization whose mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. When the products of the research process become public goods -- analysis plans, data, methods, code, and results -- we can accelerate knowledge, solutions, and cures.

COS is seeking a Product Support Specialist to join its Product team. The specialist plays an essential role in COS’s ability to provide excellent community and client experiences as part of our user-centric product development. The specialist will support the product vision through effective and efficient management of client and user relations and ensure user success in open science behaviors with our products and services. The Product Support Specialist is a highly cross-functional role responsible for supporting COS’s mission through the effective understanding, support, and articulation of products and services to our stakeholders, clients and users.

The Product Support Specialist will provide front-line support to the growing user community and clients of COS products and services. This individual:

1. Is extremely knowledgeable on general product capabilities in order to be able to effectively respond to a broad range of user queries and speak publicly about the product.
2. Manages our user support help desk including monitoring, triaging, and responding to all support cases with excellent customer service.
3. Leads trouble shooting with end users and community members, and directs them to user-facing resources or promptly develops support materials to address common challenges.
4. Cultivates strong and trusted community and user relationships with timely and accurate communications.
5. Facilitates inter-team communication to solicit feedback and/or develop user resources.
6. Owns development and maintenance of product help documentation with support from product owners.
7. Guides set up and onboarding for new community members onto products.
8. Leads or supports COS workshops for members and research communities.
9. Coordinates with product, engineering, and quality assurance teams to ensure prompt resolution to issues and communication of feature requests.
10. Provides insights for product team strategy development through reporting on customer relations activities regularly, triages feature requests and quantitative analyses of user support trends.
11. Recommends process improvements to increase efficiency and scalability of user support services.

• User support 
• Project management 
• Communication
• Member engagement

• Experience in a customer-facing role working via email and web meetings
• Experience in community engagement role or supporting online communities
• Experience using CRM, help desk, web communication, project management and documentation software, such as Salesforce, Zendesk,  Zoom, JIRA, HubSpot, and ScreenSteps or similar tools
• Team-oriented and strong organizational awareness
• Very strong work ethic and a passion for supporting culture change
• Strong analytical, organization, and documentation skills with excellent attention to detail
• Extremely high social and communication skills 
• Experienced multi-tasker with ability to handle and prioritize various tasks 
• Self-starting, industrious, creative, and independent worker who continually seeks new challenges and responsibilities
• Sound judgment, professionalism, and a positive attitude
• Adaptive to rapidly changing demands and multiple priorities in a high performance workplace

Highly Desired Skills:

• Experience in community engagement role or supporting online communities
• Significant experience with Salesforce or other CRM
• Familiarity with agile and scrum rituals
• Familiarity with research and research communities

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 1-3 years experience in customer support role
• Experience with technical writing
• Experience within research or scientific environment helpful

COS is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Remote work is available for this position.

COS offers full time employees:

• Competitive salaries
• 401(k) with employer match. COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days vacation in year one
• Paid family medical leave. COS offers paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition.
• Modern office space and other amenities

COS promotes a flexible work environment that supports a healthy work/life balance. Salary is expected to be in the 40s depending on relevant experience and skills.

COS is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries. Please apply here by submitting a resume and cover letter explaining your background and interest in the position. Questions about the position and COS are welcome and can be directed to jobs@cos.io.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a mission-driven non-profit technology company providing free and open services to increase inclusivity and transparency of research. All members of the COS team work towards achieving our mission through the successful completion of their functions and duties.

COS Values & Expectations: COS aims to live up to the values it advocates, which are: openness, transparency, integrity, strong communication, collaboration, dedication to mission and team, respect, inclusiveness, innovation, hard work, and a love-what-you-do mindset. 

COS is seeking a Data Manager to be the operational lead for its role in a recently funded John Templeton Foundation project.  This project will collect survey data on the social, spiritual, and religious attitudes from approximately 300,000 research participants around the world over a period of five years. Some background on the proposed research is available here.

The Data Manager will be responsible for the curation, ethical sharing, and preservation of the data, which will be collected by partner organizations. The Data Manager will be responsible for assisting external researchers on data reuse and requests for data access after external researchers meet criteria for ethical (e.g. IRB certification) and rigorous/transparent (e.g. preregistered designs) standards.  

The Data Manager will be the point-of-contact with the lead teams for the project at Baylor, Harvard, and Gallup and will report to the Program Manager on the Policy team at the Center for Open Science. 

The Data Manager will:

• Receive the datasets and codebooks.
• Prepare them for public release.
• Manage and document the OSF project spaces hosting the data.
• Implement the release schedule.
• Provide daily support to researchers using the datasets.
• Provide support for preregistration and Registered Report submissions associated with the project.
• Manage communications in conjunction with the communications coordinator.
• Conduct workshops and webinars for researchers on open and reproducible best practices, use of OSF, and workflows for this project such as the registry and reporting workflow
• Maintain proper documentation for external community members

Additional data management skills that may be applied:

• Maintaining and documenting that database for quality and wide use
• Enhancing the dataset with related data from a wide variety of scholarly databases using and developing automated techniques to keep the dataset up-to-date
• Enhancing the dataset with data extracted from papers and/or provided by other collaborators or performing teams-- Creating automated workflows for data extraction from sources
• Negotiating and collaborating with maintainers of other scholarly databases to align data for automated extraction and merging
• Maintaining overall data integrity for project success
• Maintaining permissions for data access

• Expertise with data managing, data wrangling, data merging, and data documentation
• Expertise with scholarly databases. Experience with data access via APIs is desired. 
• Experience with programming skills for data extraction, merging, and creating automated, repeatable workflows with large databases (SQL experience is a plus)
• Practical understanding of and experience with machine learning a plus
• Demonstrated commitment to transparency, rigor, and reproducibility in research
• Functional knowledge or experience with preregistration or Registered Reports.
• Attention to detail and very strong documentation and workflow management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, interpersonal skills, and ability to work independently and in coordination with a team for advancing shared objectives on a very assertive timeline
• Ability to prioritize, make decisions, problem-solve, and ask for help

This position may require up to 10% of travel (up to 20% if located remote from Charlottesville). 

• 3-5 years of experience handling research data intended for reuse or curation
• A demonstrated record of open science practices, such as data sharing, preregistration, collaborative research endeavors requiring documentation or curation.

• Education or related experience equivalent to Master’s level in data science, statistics, or a closely related field. 

Salary range $60,000 - $65,000 commensurate with experience. The position is located at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia. On site is desired but remote work will be considered.

COS offers full time employees:

• Competitive salaries
• 401(k) with employer match. COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days vacation in year one
• Paid family medical leave. COS offers paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition.
• Modern office space and other amenities including free parking.

COS is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries.

Please submit a resume/CV and cover letter explaining your background and interest in the position here. Questions about the position and COS are welcome, and can be directed to jobs@cos.io.