Posted to IASSIST on: 2015-01-07
Employer: NatCen Social Research
Employer URL: http://www.natcen.ac.uk/
Description
We are looking to recruit a Senior Research Data Manager to join our Longitudinal Survey Group in the Survey Research Centre to work on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). The post involves working with researchers to plan data management and taking responsibility for the management of large and complex datasets.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with researchers to specify and plan data management within projects
- Construct and maintain SPSS data files.
- Check and edit data, ensuring data integrity and continuity.
- Write derived variables in SPSS, in conjunction with the research team.
- Provision of data sets to internal and external users (including Data Archive), and keeping archived data sets up-to-date (e.g. with flagged data).
- Carry out, and validate, data linkages (e.g. with census data, administrative data, different datasets over time or from different surveys).
- Carry out cross-tabulation and other statistical analyses.
- Contribute to substantive and technical reports.
- Ensure all procedures and questionnaires are fully documented.
- Be the main contact for data queries and enquiries for NatCen researchers, other NatCen staff, clients, collaborators and external data users.
- Be aware of data protection and confidentiality issues.
- Miscellaneous tasks (e.g. sorting out samples or feed forward data for follow-up studies).
Essential:
- Experience of data management is essential, this includes experience gained in academia, government, other public sector, voluntary sector or market research settings.
- Candidates must demonstrate a high standard of achievement in data management.
- Senior Data Managers may be expected to work on more than one project at a time, and the ability to work well under pressure and to manage deadlines is essential.
- Experience of statistical software (SPSS or STATA) is essential
Desired:
- Experience of dealing with longitudinal data would be an advantage for this post.
Archived on: 2015-01-07