Knowledge Transfer Associate for Digital - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

UE07:
£36, £43,155.00 Per Annum

College of Science & Engineering / School of Mathematics

Fixed Term Contract:
Full Time - 35 Hours per Week

Fixed Term for 24 months

The Opportunity:

This job is an opportunity to help transfer knowledge of research associated with the STACK online assessment system to enable IDEMS International, a Community Interest Company (CIC), to significantly broaden the use and efficacy of online assessment within schools and university mathematics education for wider societal benefit.

The job will be based at IDEMS International CIC, and the associate will report to both IDEMS and the University of Edinburgh.

Your skills and attributes for success:

PhD in mathematics or a related STEM discipline.
Ability to programme to a high standard in PHP and Javascript.
A working knowledge of best practice in software engineering, including version control and unit testing.
Ability to contribute to medium and large scale projects as part of a team.
The ability to communicate in clear English, for example the ability to write clear and accurate documentation and user guides, containing mathematical examples as appropriate.
A working knowledge of typesetting online, e.g. in HTML, CSS, and basic LaTeX and of linux.

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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.

Interviews will take place on Monday 10th July.
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.