Vacancy for Senior Research Data Steward at University College London

Digital Preservation Coalition; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution is seeking a Senior Research Data Steward to enhance data management practices and support researchers at UCL. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in sensitive data handling, excellent communication skills, and experience in conducting data-intensive research. This full-time role offers the opportunity to work closely with academic teams and contribute to impactful research initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in conducting data-intensive research in an academic environment.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly.
• Strong background working with sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Support researchers in improving data management.
• Align research practices with funder policies.
• Contribute to new research proposals.

Skills

Data management

Communication

Information Security

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

ISO27001 certification

Data Security and Protection Toolkit

Job description

• Vacancy for Senior Research Data Steward at University College London

Vacancy for Senior Research Data Steward at University College London

12 May 2024

London

Full-Time

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.

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, align with university and funder 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.

About you

Research Data Stewards will have experience of conducting 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.

At Senior grade, a data steward with a strong background of working with sensitive data who can help research teams with data governance. They should understand information security and risk management, and have a good knowledge of the issues involved in handling and disseminating sensitive data.

We are particularly keen to hear from applicants with experience in one or more of the following topics: ISO27001 certification, Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), Trusted Research Environments (TRE), Secure Data Environments (SDE), Data Safe Havens (DSH), the Five Safes model, processing healthcare data / the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit, anonymising personal data, data protection and ethics.