Data Steward - Lancaster, United Kingdom - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Lancaster, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Data Steward - Technical specialist

Full time (37 hours per week)

Up to £35,892 (depending on skills and knowledge)

Based at our Lancaster site. Current hybrid working policy allows up to two days working from home.

Interviews will be arranged shorty after this

We have an exciting opportunity for a data steward with a specialism in technical skills to help support the Data Stewardship Team and the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) in the maintenance and development of the tools and infrastructure required to deliver world class science for UKCEH.

This role will also facilitate the ingestion of datasets to the EIDC from UKCEH and external depositors.

You will:

Help maintain the day to day operational infrastructure and develop future function and capability e.g. of data management planning tools used by UKCEH and NERC data centres

- lead the development of reporting of metrics to senior management on research project data management plans and datasets archived to the data centre
- be part of a Data Stewardship Team, promoting best practice in research data management and supporting the development of Data Management Plans covering a variety of different types of data, promoting FAIR and open data.

Liaise with researchers to advise and agree plans for data they produce to be made FAIR
Facilitate the ingestion of research data to the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC)