Research Data Managers, Biomedical Data Stewardship

**Job Reference**:

- 606_24_LS_INB_RE2**Position**:

- Research Data Managers, Biomedical data stewardship and FAIR data management (RE2)**Closing Date**:

- Wednesday, 16 October, 2024**Reference**: 606_24_LS_INB_RE2**Job title**: Research Data Managers, Biomedical data stewardship and FAIR data management (RE2)

**About BSC**
- The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.**Context And Mission**
- The Life Sciences Department from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is establishing a new team on Health Data Research within the Life Sciences Department that will collaborate closely with the INB/ELIXIR-ES unit. The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) is the major bioinformatics platform in Spain, and the Spanish representative in the European bioinformatics infrastructure ELIXIR. INB is fully oriented to complete a solid integration with International Bioinformatics and Health Research Data infrastructures, including the ELIXIR consortium.

This new team has its focus on the massive amount of health data available for research in the last years and the recent efforts at national and European levels to tap on those data to benefit patients. Using such data helps scientists to understand diseases and health conditions better and provides new ways of identifying patients at higher risk. It also helps to prevent illness and to provide better treatments. This, in turn, improves the health services' efficiency, optimising their resources where they matter the most.**Key Duties**
- Participate in data management planning for research projects, including data storage, backup, and archiving strategies.
- Facilitate data sharing and collaboration among research teams, both within the organization and with external partners.
- Implement and promote best practices in data stewardship and management, ensuring data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).
- Develop and maintain data governance policies and procedures.
- Provide training and support to researchers on data management best practices and tools.

**Requirements**:

- Education
- MSc in data science, bioinformatics, or a related field.
- Alternatively, demonstrated experience in data management and stewardship.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in data stewardship and research data management.
- Familiarity with FAIR data principles and best practices in data quality management.
- Familiarity with data analysis with R, Python or SQL
- Understanding of the regulatory requirements related to biomedical data management.
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- Competences
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.

**Conditions**
- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Starting date: asap

**Applications procedure and process**
- A full CV in English including contact details
- A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered

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