Project Officer

Research Data Scotland is a charity set up by the Scottish public sector and leading universities. We work in partnership to help researchers find and make use of data that can improve the lives of people in Scotland. We are widening the range of data available, creating new data assets and providing a single point of contact for safe, secure and effective access to public data in a trustworthy manner.

This role will ensure our system transformation and new services are fit for purpose. You'll plan, co-ordinate and deliver engagement activities, linking internal teams to our network of system experts and researchers in the data-science landscape, monitoring engagement activities, including value and impact.

User engagement informs service, content and interaction design so our RDS services work brilliantly for system administrators and researchers.

About you

You are a self-starter, with experience of co-ordinating and overseeing events and user activities, confident to take a facilitating role on the day, bringing know-how and creative ideas.  You are very organised and adaptable with experience in monitoring activities as well as capturing qualitative and quantitative insights. You’ll have excellent verbal and written skills and a good understanding of the tools, practices and techniques to effectively engage with internal colleagues and our users. You'll enjoy working independently and as part of a team.

Life at RDS

We promote learning and work hard to build an inclusive and supportive workplace culture. We live our values of; integrity, transparency, courage, collaboration and humility.

Our people work flexibly, and you can work your hours distributed in any way that works best for your schedule and ours. We are a remote first organisation but you're welcome to use our desks in the Bayes Centre in central Edinburgh. The full RDS team meet in person on one day each month and this role will also require occasional in-person attendance to support meetings or events, typically in Edinburgh/the Central Belt.

Thinking of applying? 

If we can make any adjustments to our standard application or selection process to make things easier for you, please let us know.

Please note that you must have existing right to work in the UK as we do not hold a Sponsor Licence.