Database Developer

Job no:511058
Work type:Fixed term - Part-time
Campus:Adelaide
Categories:Information and Communications Technology, HEO6

(HE06) $82,879 to $89,525 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

Fixed term, part time position (0.6FTE) available for 12 months.

The Database Developer will contribute to the design, development and implementation of data management systems for large clinical research projects undertaken within the Lifelong Health Research Group.

In maintaining the data management systems, the Database Developer will contribute to critical data monitoring, quality control and study organisation to facilitate data analysis and publication of clinically relevant research findings in the field of pregnancy and early childhood health. 

Led by Professor Jodie Dodd, the Lifelong Health Research Group strives to ensure that care for women and their infants is effective, and that treatment benefits outweigh harms.  The Group has led pivotal randomised controlled trials involving pregnant women, investigating interventions to reduce the risk of adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes.

The Database Developer will work closely with the Clinical Trial Managers, Data Manager and Research team, requiring excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.

To be successful you will need:

• A degree (Data Management, Information Technology, Computer Sciences) with at least two years subsequent relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in IT, including data management systems development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work collegially as part of a team.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills including the ability to prioritise work and work independently as appropriate.
• Understanding of health sciences and/or clinical research operations (desirable).

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you a vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

Your faculty's broader role

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences contains one of Australia's largest concentrations of leading health researchers, teachers and clinical titleholders. It's comprised of eight schools and a number of specialist disciplines, institutes and centres, variously focused on world-class research, and training the next generation of: medical doctors; surgeons; dentists; nurses; psychiatrists; psychologists; and other health professionals.

Learn more at: health.adelaide.edu.au

If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to be taken through to the online application form. Please ensure you submit a cover letter, resume, and upload a document that includes your responses to all of the selection criteria for the position as contained in the position description or selection criteria document.

Applications close 11:55pm, 29 November 2022.

The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:

Andrea Deussen
Clinical Trials Manager, Adelaide Medical School/Women’s and Children’s Hospital
P: +61 (8) 8313 1429
E:   [email protected]

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The University of Adelaide is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply.

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