Senior Research Data Steward

As a Senior Research Data Steward, you will provide technically focused support and consultancy to researchers at SWC, helping them to improve their data management and research workflows, align with relevant policies, and enable Open Science and FAIR data. 

You will divide your time between collaborating on research projects, contributing to new research proposals, and helping design and develop data services for researchers, feeding in researcher requirements to ensure that the suite of research support services offered by SWC & UCL remains relevant and effective.

About you

You will hold a PhD Degree or equivalent professional expertise appropriate to the role and have experience of working with complex, large, or rapidly changing datasets in an academic or industrial research environment. You will have experience with one or more specialist technologies for managing, discovering, organizing, or disseminating research data.

You will also have

• knowledge of, and commitment to, technology best practices that enable the delivery of reliable, sustainable, and trustworthy outputs,

• experience in analysing and solving complex problems and

• experience in several completed complex technical projects, having had a leading role in bringing about those successes.

Additionally, you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to effectively present complex information to a range of audiences, work collaboratively and under your initiative as well as the ability to communicate with researchers, to ensure their research vision and research questions are supported by the solutions you develop.

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