Details
1100158
UCL
01/10/2025
12 Months
2 hours a week
Not Applicable
Pay
£20.57
£3.85
Description
Role
Unitemps are recruiting for six Digital Research Technical Champion within the Centre for Advanced Research Computing. The role is to work the date of 1st October 2025 and will run until 4th September 2026 part time at 2 hours per week. Payment is set at £20.57+ holiday pay per hour and the role will be HYBRID based.
Are you a PhD student passionate about developing software, collecting, processing and managing data, or maintaining and running computing infrastructure? Do you want to promote best practices in your faculty or department? Do you want to contribute to the advancement of technical skills and research excellence? If so, we invite you to apply for the role of Digital Research Technical Champion!
We are looking to build a diverse team of enthusiastic researchers who would like to inspire and engage their peers with new and interesting technical topics, tools and ideas. We'd like our cohort to include Champions from across UCL’s faculties and departments. Champions will plan and undertake activities to help raise the profile of research software, data and computing infrastructure best practices within the research community at UCL.
Duties and responsibilities
Some examples of what you might do as a champion:
- Act as an advocate for good practice in research software development, data management or the management of research computing infrastructure.
- Run a survey of your colleagues to understand how they develop software, manage data or work with infrastructure in their research, and what challenges they face.
- Investigate current use of digital best practices in your department.
- Run coffee hour or clinic sessions to engage departmental colleagues, answer technical questions and raise awareness of research software engineering, research data management and research infrastructure engineering.
- Run training workshops to deliver skills in key best practices.
- Host a research technical showcase for your colleagues (e.g. with a stand in your building’s lobby) to highlight software, data and infrastructure services offered within your university to departmental colleagues.
These are a few examples of how you might contribute as a Champion. We’ll also provide the opportunity for you to get input and support from technical experts at UCL
Skills and experience
- Student or Graduate that has experience and understanding of challenges faced within research and departments using digital research technologies and infrastructure.
- Research Data Management experience
- A proactive approach to task completion and process enhancement
- Excellent communication skills
Location
Hybrid
Additional information
You will also get:
- A chance to meet and work with other PhD students from across your university and other universities in London who are interested in research software, data and computing infrastructure.
- An opportunity to raise your profile as someone who cares about supporting the development of high quality, sustainable research outputs.
- An opportunity to develop links and build your network across your university, working with people from a range of different research and central functions.
- A chance to support your peers and share your knowledge, skills and enthusiasm for research technology.
For more information, contact James Wilson (Head of Research Data Services, UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing) or Isabella von Holstein (STEP-UP project and community manager) i.von-holstein@imperial.ac.uk
Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required). This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on 25th August 2025. Interviews will be held shortly after.
Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received.
If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.
Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.
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