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Panel Manager (12 Month's Fixed Term Contract)

Research Data Scotland

Location: Remote
Salary: £47,215 to £57,939
Hours: Part Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 13th October 2025
Closes: 26th October 2025

Salary £ 47,215-£57,939. (RDS employees start at the first point on the scale. For roles where there are recognised recruitment difficulties or under other exceptional circumstances, a level of flexibility may be considered.)

Application deadline 26/10/2025 

About the job

The Panel Manager is a new role and reflects the growth of RDS’s Researcher Access Service – the core platform for supporting researchers to apply for, and get access to, public sector data. The role holder will work closely with RDS’s delivery experts and the Public Health Scotland eDRIS team to help deliver a smooth-running service. They’ll also contribute to the development of the service as it scales.

They will lead the end-to-end management and governance of the RDS panel responsible for reviewing and approving secure access to administrative data for research. This role ensures that data access requests are assessed rigorously, ethically, and in line with regulatory and organisational standards. The postholder will play a key role in enabling safe data use while maintaining public trust and transparency. 

About you

You will have a background in managing or supporting research and governance, and a good understanding of the use of anonymised data for research. You could have managed a panel before, or worked elsewhere in research, in governance or applying for data, for instance, and want to bring those skills to the “other side”. You’ll be accountable, discrete, highly organised, and demonstrate great attention to detail. You’ll be working with a broad range of people, so you’ll feel confident to build influential and collaborative relationships, facilitate discussions and support transparent decision making. Ideally, you’ll also understand the UK’s data access landscape, including Trusted Research Environments and data linkage initiatives and want to make the best panel and data service in the UK, in our approach to supporting secure and effective data research. 

Benefits

* Flexible working - remote first and we work a four day (32 hours) week

* 30 days annual leave (inc public holidays)

* Generous pension

* Enhanced parental leave

* Flexible benefits (Cycle to work, Charity Giving, Dental Insurance)

* Discount Vouchers 

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We like to keep our application processes as simple and human centred as we can. 

We just need your CV and a cover letter outlining how your skills and experience match the job and person specification (via the 'Apply' button above).

Equal opportunities 

Research Data Scotland is an Equal Opportunities employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All our hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We’d really appreciate you sending a completed equalities monitoring form with your application, so we can ensure we are meeting our commitments. 

(NB: please have all your documents ready to upload as you start your application.) 

Interviews

Interviews will be held in w/c 3 November 2025.

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