Senior 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 computational science and digital scholarship possible. We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation in the application of advanced computational and data intensive research methods, working in partnership with academics from all fields.

We are a home for the research technology professionals - research software engineers, HPC systems engineers, dev-ops specialists, data engineers, data scientists and data stewards - who support and collaborate in the delivery of UCL research.

About the role

Research Data Stewards (also known as research data managers, data consultants, data wranglers, or bioinformaticians) provide technically focused support and consultancy to researchers at UCL, helping them to improve their data management, aligning with university and funder policies and modern best practices.

This position takes place in the context of a genomic data initiative at UCL, led by the UCL Human Genomics (UCLhg) centre, which federates genomic research across faculties at UCL. UCL has many unique strengths and resources in human genomics.

This position is thus a strategically important opportunity to contribute to major resources and cutting-edge genomic research at UCL. The genomic data initiatives aims to coordinate management, standardisation and analysis of genomic data across UCL, aligned within a wider initiative led by ARC to provide centralized research data access.

This is a Hybrid working role.

Salary range for the Senior Research Data Steward: £51,474 to £65,698 (including London Allowance) depending on experience. USS pension Scheme offers staff contribute 6.1% and UCL will contribute 14.6%

Job description and person specification for each of the Research Data Steward positions can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Please supply a cover letter setting out how you meet the selection criteria.

About you

Research Data Stewards will have experience of conducting or supporting data-intensive research in an academic research environment and the technical skills to document, process and transform data. They will need to be an excellent communicator with the ability to explain technical and specialised concepts clearly to non-technical academic and support staff.

For this post, we would like to hear from applicants with experience in human genomics, with a background in working with sensitive data.

You will be responding to the priorities of the UCL Human Genomics research community, for example in terms of prioritizing (new forms of) data to be made available, via regular consultation with the UCLhg Data Committee. Alongside centralising the management of quality-controlled genomic data and other forms of omic data to be accessible by researchers throughout UCL.

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.

In the event we get a high number of applications, we may close the advert early before the published closing date.

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.

What we offer

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

• 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• This post is eligible for USS Pension Scheme defined benefit scheme
• Staff contribute 6.1% and UCL will contribute 14.6%
• Life insurance is included (3x salary)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted medical insurance

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.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our department is working towards an Athena SWAN award. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.