Data Manager

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Data Manager
Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences
School of Medicine
College of Biomedical and Life Sciences

We are looking for a Data Manager to join the world-class Psychosis and Major Affective Disorders Group of the Cardiff University Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG). You will be funded by two 5-year grants from UKRI (“Molecular Genetic Studies of Schizophrenia” and “South Wales and South-West England Hub of the Mental Health Platform”). The position offers access to some of the world’s largest datasets on severe mental illness linked to genomic data, and provides the rare opportunity to work both directly and in collaboration with multiple international leaders in psychiatric research.

You will work in the vibrant CNGG environment where we will support your career and skills development. You will oversee collation and governance of the data from these major grants and be involved with its curation and use on research projects. You will contribute to our adoption of Open Research and Open Data practices across the CNGG and will be responsible for the implementation of Data Management Plans for clinical, demographic and genomic data. 

This post is based at the Hadyn Ellis Building, Cathays campus. 

For informal enquiries please contact Antonio Pardiñas ([email protected])  

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), available from 1 July 2024 and fixed term until 31 July 2028.

Salary: £32,332 - £34,980 per annum, pro-rata (Grade 5).  Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are usually made at bottom of scale unless in exceptional circumstances.

The majority of roles at Cardiff University are currently operating under “blended working” arrangements, with staff having the flexibility to work partly from home and partly from the University campus depending on specific business requirements. Discussions around these arrangements can take place after the successful candidate has been appointed.

Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 45 days annual leave (incl bank holidays), local pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments within the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.

How we will support you in performing in this role – 

There are some things that you must have before you can start this role (see ‘Essential Criteria’), but other things can be developed either through training, or just by general on-the-job experience.  We want to support and develop you once you have started in the role using a combination of the following to get the best out of you:

1.    Regular one-to-ones with your manager
2.    An experienced and supportive team around you
3.    Supporting you through job-relevant training and development that you may require
4.    A mentoring scheme

Date advert posted: Thursday, 30 May 2024

Closing date: Thursday, 20 June 2024

Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age.  In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Job Description

Job Purpose
Support the University within the Psychosis and Major Affective Disorders group as a Data Manager, providing advice, guidance and support, and leading projects within this area.

Duties and Responsibilities

Key Duties
•    Provide professional advice and guidance on data (clinical, demographic, genomic) management processes and procedures to internal and external customers, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensure the understanding of complex and conceptual issues.
•    Investigate and analyse specific issues within ongoing data collections and legacy datasets held by the Psychosis and Major Affective Disorders group, creating recommendation reports, supported by advances within  research governance post DPA/GDPR.
•    Ensure that data management planning for future funding bids are delivered in a timely manner for grant applications administered by the division, proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements.
•    Collaborate with others in order to make recommendations for developments of established processes and procedures.
•    Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required.
•    Create specific working groups from colleagues across the University to achieve  data governance objectives.
•    Supervise specific project teams on an occasional basis to accomplish key objectives.
•    Develop and deliver training within data management and governance with a focus on research and researchers.
•    Undertake a variety of  administrative duties to support the Division.
•    Instruct and guide other employees across the University within data management processes and procedures as required.

General Duties
•    Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
•    Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
•    Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Qualifications and Education
1.    Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
2.    Substantial experience of working in the management of research data related to psychiatry, medical genetics and/or genomics.
3.    Ability to demonstrate professional knowledge of data governance procedures to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers.
4.    Ability to set up standard data management systems and procedures and make improvements as appropriate.

Customer Service, Communication and Team Working
5.    Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
6.    Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt the service accordingly to ensure delivery of a quality service.

Planning, Analysis and Problem solving
7.    Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes.
8.    Evidence of demonstrable knowledge of key advances within specialist discipline.
9.    Evidence of ability to work unsupervised to deadlines, planning and setting priorities for own work and that of others and monitoring progress.

Other
10.    A willingness to undertake further training and development.

Desirable Criteria

1.    Postgraduate/Professional qualification.
2.    Experience of working in a Higher Education environment.
3.    Fluency in Welsh, written and oral.
4.    Experience working under the Data Protection Act (2018) and its requirements for personal data and genetic analysis data.
5.    Experience working with large-scale datasets (>10.000 observations or variables) and of using computer programming (any language) to facilitate data management tasks.

Additional Information

IMPORTANT: Evidencing Criteria
Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable criteria.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement. Please ensure when submitting this document / attaching it to you application profile you name it with the vacancy reference number, in this instance, 18544BR

Job Category

Academic - Research, Management & Executive