Research Data Steward

About us

The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL’s new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research - the supercomputers, datasets, software and people that make data and computational science and digital scholarship possible. Data Stewardship is a new profession within ARC, and this is a great opportunity to help shape the future of both the department and research practice more generally.

About the role

Our Research Data Stewards will provide technically-focused support and consultancy to researchers at UCL, helping them to improve their data management, align with university policies, and enable Open Science and FAIR data.

They will spend much of their time embedded within research projects, but also contribute to new research proposals and collaborate on research data service design, feeding in researcher requirements to ensure that the suite of research support services offered by UCL remains relevant and effective.

We are specifically seeking a data steward whose initial responsibilities will involve working with the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL on a project to facilitate onward data sharing from large-scale, international clinical trials. This will include the development and implementation of technical processes around deidentification and governance, and the preparation of a number of trial datasets for onward sharing. Papers are also one of the anticipated outputs of the project and the data steward will be expected to contribute to authoring these.

About you

As a Research Data Steward, you will have experience of conducting data-intensive research in an academic research environment and have the technical skills to document, process and transform data.

You will need to be an excellent communicator with the ability to explain technical and specialised concepts clearly to non-technical academic and support staff.

As these post will initially be working with individual patient data, candidates will need to demonstrate experience with medical and/or sensitive data handling.

This role meets the eligibility requirements for a skilled worker certificate of sponsorship or a global talent visa under UK Visas and Immigration legislation. Therefore, UCL welcomes applications from international applicants who require a visa.

We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible.

This role is eligible for hybrid working with a minimum of 20% on site.

In the event we get a high number of applications, we may close the advert early before the published closing date. As a minimum we will keep all adverts open for 2 weeks. 

This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Professional Services Staff. Please visit UCL's HR page for more information.

We also have a Grade 8 Senior Research Data Steward position.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

A yearly promotion scheme across grades. The scheme aims to make it easier for high-performing staff demonstrating the appropriate skills and behaviours of performing at a higher grade to be recognised and to accelerate their internal career progression.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

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