Career

The Energy Data Centre provides a comprehensive information discovery resource focussed on making energy research data, projects and publications available to the community. It supports research outputs to be accessible and reusable thus supporting Open Science and reproducibility aims.

The centre is part of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) project that brings UK researchers together to work on Whole Systems Energy. The small and friendly EDC team develop and maintain both the in-house system and the content within it.

The Energy Data Centre is based within the Technology Department’ Energy Research Unit (ERU). ERU has a long history in energy research and runs a test site with a wind turbine and green ammonia plant. STFC Technology provides technology, engineering and support of both STFC’s facilities and programmes and the wider research programme. The calibre and expertise of our staff enables us to work on a wide range of projects and programmes including microelectronics, accelerators, nuclear physics, cryogenics, energy and major engineering infrastructures.

The STFC Graduate Scheme

The STFC Graduate scheme will give you the opportunity to really pursue your interests and passion early in your journey with us, supported by technical training and a broader programme of career support and training and development.

Our dedicated Early Careers Development Team will provide the right combination of challenge and support throughout, helping you achieve your ambitions. We know that professional recognition is also important to you too, so we will provide mentoring and expertise to help you achieve valued qualifications or chartered status in your chosen field.

STFC offers a benefits package crafted to provide an excellent work/life balance including 30 days’ annual leave, an outstanding index linked pension scheme, 10.5 public and privilege days, Christmas closure and flexible working hours.

For more information on our full list of benefits, please visit here.

About the role

With full support from the team, responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for the content within the Energy Data Centre by:
  • Managing the research data ingest process: ensuring the data provided is well described and re-usable and supporting researchers to meet the standards for the Energy Data Centre
  • Routinely adding new content and adding subject information
  • Undertaking one-off projects to ensure the quality of metadata held in the system is good and self-consistent
  • Reviewing and updating internal metadata standards and policy as required
• Reviewing and updating the EDC guidance on research data and emerging FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable) standards.
• Research Data Management Planning Support: running the process to ensure all UKERC projects have data management plans and ensuring they are updated, recording the status for KPI reporting and maintaining good working relationships with the UKERC academics we support.
• Working together with the team undertaking a technical refresh of the infrastructure.

Depending on the skills and potential of the successful candidate, there may be opportunities to contribute to software development activities.

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