Research Support Officer X2 (Community Engagement Manager) Insight Centre For Data Analytics, School Of Computer Science And Information Technology

20 Months, Fixed-Term, Whole-time Post

Position Summary

Applications are invited to compete for 2 Research Support Officer posts (Community Engagement Managers) to join the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, based at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Ireland. The position holders will work as Community Managers, assuming task leadership responsibilities in the Horizon Europe project AI4Europe: An AI-on-demand platform to support Research Excellence in Europe.

The Community Managers will be responsible for leading and monitoring the activities of the ‘Participatory engagement coordination’ task of the project, and the ‘Expert groups and sustainable processes’ task, with a view to ensure wide outreach of the AI-on-Demand platform and high-quality content population. In addition, they will support UCC activities related to the academic research engagement Work Package. Managing the day-to-day activities of the specific tasks, providing updates to the UCC Principal Investigator (PI), and contributing to deliverables and reports will be among the responsibilities of the post holder. The Community Managers will work closely with the UCC AI4Europe team, other partners in the consortium, as well as with a variety of project stakeholders from across Europe.

About Insight

The Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics (http://www.insight-centre.org) is an SFI funded Research Centre that brings together researchers from University College Dublin, NUI Galway, University College Cork, and Dublin City University, as well as other partner institutions, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University of Limerick (UL), Maynooth University (MU) and Tyndall National Institute. It creates a critical mass of more than 400 researchers from Ireland's leading ICT clusters to carry out research on a new generation of data analytics technologies in a number of key application domain areas, such as Health and Human Performance, Smart Communities, Internet of Things, Enterprise and Services and Sustainability and Operations.

About AI4Europe

Europe is implementing an AI strategy that seeks to create a research environment characterised by scientific excellence and consistent with the fundamental ethical values of its citizens. Part of this strategy foresees the consolidation of ongoing research activities through the creation and maintenance of an AI on-demand platform that will act as a community resource for the research community, facilitating experimentation, knowledge sharing and the development of state-of-the-art solutions and technologies. AI4Europe builds on the work of AI4EU and multiple supporting projects (ICT-48/ICT-49), creating an open, impartial, and collaborative platform, built by the European research community according to their needs. Equipped with the necessary hardware, the platform will offer interoperable services, data, and tools from several related communities and provide solutions to facilitate research productivity, reproducibility, and collaboration. The project will establish and support mechanisms to foster exchange between academia and industry and ensure the platform reaches out to and engages with the next generation of researchers and those in widening countries. The project will develop and implement a business model that will ensure the long-term technical and financial structures providing sustainability for the platform beyond the lifetime of the project. AI4Europe will support the community to create a tool that will help position Europe as the place where the very best AI research is conducted.

Project Title: AI4Europe

Post Duration: 20 Months

Salary:  €44,000 p.a. (Personal Rate)

For an information package including further details of the post see https://ore.ucc.ie/.

Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Barry O’Sullivan, Professor, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Tel: + 353 (0) 21 4205951; Email: [email protected]

Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/). Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to [email protected], quoting the job-title and project name.

Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday, 19th April 2024.

No late applications will be accepted.

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent on University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector.

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