Location: | Milton Keynes |
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Salary: | £43,414 to £51,805 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 2nd December 2022 |
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Closes: | 23rd December 2022 |
Job Ref: | 20580 / 20581 |
Full-time, 1 x Permanent / 1 x FTC until 31/7/23
Closing date: 23 December 2022 – 12:00
Change your career, change lives
The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.
The role
The Chief Data Office is spearheading a transformation of the university’s data analytics capability. Our aim is to support our key stakeholders in the university by enabling evidence driven decision making through data and analytics.
The role holder will be working in a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers responsible for engaging with end-users in providing expertise to build a range of powerful statistical and machine learning models that are required to drive learning and insight through the student journey to enhance student success within The Open University. These models will be deployed through our state-of-the-art cloud platform using MLOps pipelines.
Although this role is aligned to our Milton Keynes office, we are flexible on location across the UK, with the understanding of occasional ad-hoc attendance onsite.
Skills and experience
If you can answer yes to these questions, then we would love to hear from you.
The full summary of duties and skills required for the role can be found within the Job Description.
What you get in return
Colleagues wellbeing and development is at the forefront of our culture. We embrace diversity and recognise and reward our employees for the fantastic work they do. For more information about our people and wellbeing focus, please contact the Resourcing Hub.
The Open University is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which is reflected in our mission to be open to people, places, methods, and ideas. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment so that all our staff can reach their potential, and we encourage applications from candidates identifying in under-represented or marginalised groups. We recognise that different people bring different perspectives, ideas, knowledge, and culture, and that this difference brings great strength.
We offer a range of inclusive employment policies which include family and carer friendly flexible working arrangements and have many supportive staff networks and wellbeing services. We also endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.
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