Vacancy for Senior Research Data Steward at University College London

Digital Preservation Coalition; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading research institution is seeking a Senior Research Data Steward to support data-intensive research. This role entails providing technical support, ensuring compliance with data governance, and promoting ethical data practices. The ideal candidate will possess a solid background in handling sensitive data, relevant certifications, and excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience with sensitive data and governance.
• Familiarity with ISO27001, ISMS, TRE, SDE.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Support UCL researchers with data management and compliance.
• Collaborate on research proposals and design data services.
• Promote Open Science and FAIR data principles.

Skills

Data management

Communication

Data governance

Information security

Technical consultancy

Education

Experience conducting data-intensive research

Job description

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 institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research, supporting supercomputers, datasets, software, and people that enable computational science and digital scholarship. We are a hybrid organization combining a professional services department providing reliable and secure infrastructure to UCL research groups, and a research laboratory for advancing computational and data-intensive research methods, collaborating with academics across disciplines.

We house research technology professionals—including research software engineers, HPC systems engineers, dev-ops specialists, data engineers, data scientists, and data stewards—who support and collaborate in UCL research activities.

Research Data Stewards (also known as research data managers, data consultants, data wranglers, or bioinformaticians) offer technical support and consultancy to UCL researchers, assisting with data management, policy compliance, and promoting Open Science and FAIR data principles.

They will be embedded within research projects but also contribute to new research proposals and collaborate on designing research data services.

About you

Successful candidates will have experience conducting data-intensive research within an academic environment and possess technical skills to document, process, and transform data. Excellent communication skills are essential to clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical staff.

At the Senior grade, candidates should have a strong background working with sensitive data, understanding data governance, information security, and risk management, and be familiar with issues related to handling and disseminating sensitive data.

We are especially interested in applicants with experience in areas such as ISO27001 certification, Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), Trusted Research Environments (TRE), Secure Data Environments (SDE), Data Safe Havens (DSH), the Five Safes model, healthcare data processing, NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit, anonymising personal data, data protection, and ethics.