Director

Job description/profile: Director of DANS | KNAW

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is seeking an inspiring and enterprising Director for Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), with a compelling vision on data use and archiving in research, familiarity with the national and international research data landscape, and excellent leadership and managerial qualities.

DANS is the national centre of expertise and repository for research data and plays a central role in the Dutch and European open science landscape. With over 355,000 datasets (with a focus on the social sciences and humanities), sixty staff members and a broad network of partners, DANS supports researchers and institutions in the sustainable management, sharing and reuse of data.

By making data available for reuse, DANS contributes to new research and to the verifiability

In doing so, we combine digital infrastructure and (data) services with specialist expertise and an active training programme for researchers and data

The demand for reliable and future-proof data infrastructures is growing rapidly.

key role in this: as a provider of data services, as a knowledge partner in the field of FAIR and open data, and as an organisation that develops and transfers knowledge through training and

In doing so, DANS acts as a link between research, policy and infrastructure.

The further strengthening of the national data infrastructure, alignment with international initiatives and the continued development of services, expertise and training require clear

DANS is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of and Sciences (KNAW) and the

The KNAW is responsible for twelve national institutes and serves as an advisory body to the

The KNAW is forum, the voice and the conscience of science in the

Approximately 1,500 people work at its institutes.

collections, the institutes rank among the national and international top.

includes the So...