Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university

Salary from £42,679 to £51,000 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £54,730 pa inclusive of London allowance 

This is a full time, fixed term post, for 2 years 

We are seeking to recruit a fixed term, full time Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion to join the Library’s Digital Scholarship and Innovation Group for 2 years, working with both the Metadata and Open Research Services teams. 3 days a week will be spent on Wikimedia work, and 2 on bibliometrics. 

The Metadata team manages the metadata for Library collections and LSE’s research outputs, and the discovery of this content both within and beyond LSE systems. The Open Research Services team is responsible for LSE’s institutional repositories, Open Access, bibliometrics, publishing advice service, open research advocacy, copyright and research data support. 

You will be responsible for championing the use of tools to improve research visibility, and for developing, promoting and integrating Wikimedia in supporting Open Scholarship at LSE and in the wider social science community. As the institutional expert on Wikimedia you will advocate for its benefits in disseminating research and expertise to a global audience, provide training and advice to researchers and staff, and engage with the LSE community as well as national and international Wikimedia communities. Working with Open Research Services you will work with the Research Information Analyst to develop the bibliometrics service, focusing on developing a training and advocacy programme to promote the effective use of bibliometrics and altmetric tools by researchers and staff. 

You will have extensive experience of working in a research environment, and relevant professional practice in open scholarship. You will be confident in advocating for the benefits of open knowledge, in designing and delivering training to diverse audiences, and in building positive working relationships. You will be self-motivated, able to exercise initiative and creativity, organize and prioritise workloads, and monitor and record activities and progress. Previous experience of editing Wikipedia, or sister platforms, and of using bibliometrics, altmetrics and other research visibility tools will be an advantage.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities. We are happy to discuss flexible working requests for this role. Some on campus working will be required to fulfil the duties of the role.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification. 

To apply for this post, please click the 'Apply' button, above. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email H.K.Williams@lse.ac.uk (or between 28^th July and 5^th August, please email R.A.Higman@lse.ac.uk) 

The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 17^th August 2025 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications. We expect to hold interviews online on Wednesday 24^th September 2025.

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