We are seeking an Open Research practitioner to help deliver the Research Data Service archiving solutions to University staff and students.
The Opportunity:
Join the Research Data Service to help provide support for research data management, and to moderate submissions to the two University research data archives: Edinburgh DataShare, an open access data repository, and DataVault, a restricted-access long-term retention solution. We are seeking a Research Data Support Assistant to work with the Research Data Support team in Library Research Support to provide this key digital research service for the University community. This is an excellent opportunity for an early career researcher to apply their research skills to promote academic culture change for data sharing and Open Science/Research in a service role.
Your skills and attributes for success:
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Experience of working in a research environment
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Knowledge of good practice in research data management
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Computing and online skills
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Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
Access the full job description for this role here. For informal enquiries about the role, please contact Robin Rice (R.Rice@ed.ac.uk).
Visit our website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-service
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
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