Writing roles and building skills#
Paper section 4 and Supplementary 3.
Section 4: RCM Skills and Competency Framework#
The framework describes 65 skills in five areas. Communication and engagement are core competencies; the other three are peripheral competencies that RCMs usually exercise in collaboration with other specialists.
Section |
Skill area |
Type |
|---|---|---|
4.2.2.1 |
Communications |
Core |
4.2.2.2 |
Engagement |
Core |
4.2.3.1 |
Strategic contributions |
Peripheral |
4.2.3.2 |
Technical expertise |
Peripheral |
4.2.3.3 |
Accountability |
Peripheral |
Practical uses#
Section 4.2.1 lists the intended audiences.
Audience |
How to use the framework |
|---|---|
Organisations |
Establish the infrastructure needed to develop and sustain RCM roles and teams |
Experienced community professionals |
Identify skills to develop or to support in others |
New community managers |
Understand your fit with the role and plan career development |
Individual researchers |
See how RCM roles complement other specialist positions |
Research teams |
Decide which community responsibilities to share and with whom |
Write job descriptions by prioritising the skills most important to the project’s goals, and separate what the RCM does independently from what they do with colleagues such as research software engineers, project managers, or data stewards.
Compare the framework with the Community Roundtable and CSCCE skills frameworks, which the paper summarises in Supplementary 3.2.
Find the full skill lists in Supplementary 3.1.