Job vacancies at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
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Current vacancies
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Senior Research Data Steward
- Reference: B02-07341
- Salary: £51,474–£60,521 p.a. including London Allowance
- Working Type: Hybrid, Full time
- Closing date: 21 August 2024
About the role
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.
What we offer
The SWC offers staff an award-winning work environment in the heart of Fitzrovia with an onsite brasserie, access to lockers and changing facilities, secure bicycle storage, and access to pleasant outdoor spaces. The Centre also offers the full range of UCL staff benefits, including a generous annual leave entitlement, occupational pension schemes, excellent family-friendly policies such as occupational shared parental pay, a work-life balance policy, career break policy [GZ1] and a range of financial benefits such as a season ticket loan scheme and staff discounts. Further information can be found online
How to apply
To apply visit UCL’s vacancy listings and search for vacancy reference B02-07341. Click on “Apply Now” to enter the recruitment portal and start your application.
Research Assistant
- Reference: B02-07347
- Salary: £37,332 - £39,980 p.a. including London Allowance
- Working Type: Hybrid, Full time
- Closing date: 22 August 2024
About the role
The Stephenson-Jones lab is looking for a Research Assistant interested in working in a systems neuroscience lab. Your role will be to help other senior members of the lab carry out their research programs as well as develop your own projects if desired. You will contribute to the design of experiments, and set them up and run them. You will train animals on virtual reality behaviours and help perform optogenetic and in vivo electrophysiological experiments. In addition, you will be expected to help with the administration of the lab including maintaining the animal colony.
About you
You will have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in neuroscience, physics, or a related field and be able to contribute to research projects within the laboratory. You will have experience with reinforcement learning literature, theory and modelling. Experience of python and bonsai programming or equivalent coding languages is essential. Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present complex information effectively are essential. You will have excellent organisation skills and be confident working effectively alone, but also able to contribute and work well as part of a team. Independent research experience, with evidence of achievement within the appropriate subject area (e.g. presented posters, given research talks) is desirable.
What we offer
The SWC offers staff an award-winning work environment in the heart of Fitzrovia with an onsite brasserie, access to lockers and changing facilities, secure bicycle storage, and access to pleasant outdoor spaces. The Centre also offers the full range of UCL staff benefits, including a generous annual leave entitlement, occupational pension schemes, excellent family-friendly policies such as occupational shared parental pay, a work-life balance policy, career break policy and a range of financial benefits such as a season ticket loan scheme and staff discounts. Further information can be found online
How to apply
To apply visit UCL’s vacancy listings and search for vacancy reference B02-07347. Click on “Apply Now” to enter the recruitment portal and start your application.
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