Senior Research Officer, Ethics & Data Governance (i2i)

UNSW International; Sydney; On-site; AUD 107,000 - 130,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

17% Superannuation and leave loading

3 extra leave days over Christmas

Lifelong learning and career dev

Progressive HR practices

Job summary

UNSW is seeking a Senior Research Officer in Ethics, Governance and Data Systems within the School of Population Health. The role focuses on providing high-level ethics and governance support for projects involving AI, linked data, and cross-institutional systems.

It requires coordinating ethics processes, building stakeholder relationships, and driving governance improvements across multi-site initiatives.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification with subsequent relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
• Experience working on ethics, regulatory and site governance applications, particularly for complex and multi-site projects.
• Prior experience in data science and/or AI focused projects would be highly desirable.
• Proven project management experience, with an understanding of the project life cycle and development of project plans, objectives and documentation.
• Develop and drive processes and procedures to guide the governance of ethics and regulatory applications across Implementation to Impact (i2i) program.
• Support the submission of ethics, regulatory and site governance applications for a variety of complex projects involving the use of AI and data science methodologies, including linked data.
• Develop and manage effective communications with key stakeholders, both internal and external to the project with the specific aim of sharing knowledge and insights to develop best practice guidance and providing influential input on ethics and governance requirements to enable achievement of project outcomes.
• Demonstrated success working effectively and collaboratively on initiatives with a range of people at different levels within an organisation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate ethics and regulatory requirements across several projects.
• Ensure governance of the associated processes and support project delivery and the development of scalable governance systems and processes.
• Establish and build key internal and external relationships to enable and streamline ethics submission procedures for complex projects involving AI and data science.

Skills

Ethics

Governance

Data systems

AI projects

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary qualification in a relevant field

Job description

UNSW is seeking a Senior Research Officer in Ethics, Governance and Data Systems within the School of Population Health. The role focuses on providing high-level ethics and governance support for projects involving AI, linked data, and cross-institutional systems.

It requires coordinating ethics processes, building stakeholder relationships, and driving governance improvements across multi-site initiatives.