Roles of professional groups

Each role profile identifies three or four key skills for the role and, for each answers the following questions:

1. Why is this a key skill for this role?
2. What level of expertise is expected?
3. Who may help?
4. Where can you learn?

In the following, role profiles are given for each of the following professional groups except those indicated with *, which we propose subsequent EOSC projects should further define.

• Researcher 4

  • First stage researcher (R1)
  • Recognised researcher (R2)
  • Established researcher (R3)
  • Leading researcher (R4)
• Data scientist 4

  (aka GO-TRAIN 'Specialist embedded research data skills'; EDISON data scientist(DP04), data analyst(DSP08), DTLS Data Steward 'A')

  • Data scientist (R1)
  • Recognised data scientist (R2)
  • Established data scientist (R3)
  • Leading data scientist (R4)
• Data advisor 1

  (aka GO-TRAIN 'institutional research data advisor and contact point') with variations in 'front-office' specialisations

  • Commercialisation advisor*
  • Data steward
  • Ethics and data protection advisor*
  • Research manager*
  • User support, training and outreach*
• Data service provider 1

  (aka long-term stewardship) with variations in 'back office' specialisations

  • Archivist*
  • Data librarian
  • Data service architect*
  • Research software engineer*
  • Service manager/ project manager*