Applications are open until 30th November 2022 (midnight CEST). The current steering committee will contact all applicants in early December.

We are extremely excited to announce that we are opening applications to join the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee at the beginning of 2023! We are looking for people with commitment, energy, and creativity to join our team. By joining the ReproducibiliTea Steering Committee, you will have the opportunity to shape one of the most exciting and dynamic Open Science communities over the coming years. 

We would like to explicitly encourage people who do not see themselves represented by the current Steering Committee to apply, for example in gender, ethnicity, country of residence/origin, career status, etc.

We are looking for at least three committee members. ReproducibiliTea is a grassroots, Early Career Researcher-led organisation, so we are seeking applications from Early Career Researchers (broadly defined as graduate students and postdocs). Committee members are initially appointed for a stint of two years. More details of the application procedure and roles can be found below. 

If you have any questions about the procedure, please contact reproducibilitea@gmail.com

Application Procedure

We are asking for the following information:

1. A brief biography, including: your current position, your institution, etc
2. A cover letter (200-400 words, roughly 1 page) on why you think you will be a good fit for the steering committee. 
3. 100-200 words on ReproducibiliTea projects you would be interested in starting or becoming involved with.

Applications are open until 30th November 2022 (midnight CEST). The current steering committee will contact all applicants in early December.

In your cover letter, please make sure you address the “essential skills” outlined below in the Role Outlines section. If you have any of the “desirable skills” please also tell us that in your cover letter.

Applications will be evaluated against the essential and desirable criteria by current Steering Committee Members. If the members cannot meaningfully discriminate between two applications which are equally good, the position will be decided by lottery. The committee members also reserve the right to ask applicants to attend a short interview if that is deemed necessary.

Role Outlines

Steering Committee (currently: S Crüwell, M Jaquiery, J Vornhagen, W Ngiam): The Steering Committee is the managing body of ReproducibiliTea, who make collective decisions about the organization's structure, aim, membership and activities. The Group engages in regular meetings to discuss any issues pertaining to the organisation and how to best support the diverse and large ReproducibiliTea membership. We expect Steering Committee members to take leading roles in projects aimed at supporting the broad ReproducibiliTea community. For example, reading lists, speaker-swap, podcast, moving our Slack to something more 'hip' e.g. Discord, marketing and social media, and any other ideas you might have. The Steering Committee members commit to attending team meetings, and to dedicate ~3 hours a month (this can fluctuate) to helping run the organisation. We aim that incoming members commit to at least a year, but hopefully two, on the steering committee.

Essential skills: 

• great communication skills
• great teamwork skills
• clear passion for Open Science/Open Research/Reproducibility
• enthusiasm to improve ReproducibiliTea
• experience attending a ReproducibiliTea journal club

 Desirable skills: 

• experience organizing a ReproducibiliTea journal club and/or contributing to ReproducibiliTea
• leadership experience
• connection to academia in parts of the world currently underrepresented by ReproducibiliTea
• connection to academic disciplines currently underrepresented by ReproducibiliTea

Note: The current ReproducibiliTea Steering Group acknowledges that the current ReproducibiliTea leadership fails to be representative of our growing membership around the world. We are committed to try to ensure that we become more representative over time. As we currently still have a limited pool of possible Steering Group members we are not yet in a position to explicitly designate certain positions of the committee for certain groups of our membership. In the first application round 2020/21 we will therefore reached out directly to a wide range of ReproducibiliTea journal club organisers to encourage more diverse application, with the aim to take stronger action in the following years.