Metadata Training Development Officer

About IOE

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:

• Centre for Longitudinal Studies
• Centre for Time Use Research
• CLOSER
• EPPI Centre
• Quantitative Social Science
• Social Science Research Unit
• Thomas Coram Research Unit

All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.

About the role

The role will be working with the CLOSER Technical Lead, Metadata Manager and CLOSER Training and Education team to develop materials for use by data managers in metadata, awareness, usage and implementation.

This post is offered at 0.4FTE (14.6 hours per week) and is available until 30th September 2025 in the first instance.

Please contact Jon Johnson - if you have any questions about the post.

About you

You will have a first degree or recognised equivalent qualification or equivalent experience in a subject relevant to the role, such as humanities, social sciences, mathematics, computer science or other subject areas and experience of collaborative working environments (e.g. Confluence, Slack) and issue trackers (e.g. GitHub).

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

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