Job Description

• Keeping our records about projects, data, group equipment, Advisory Board and Scientific Committee up to date, and backfilling them as required. Simple but needs to be done meticulously. 
• Contributing to writing and updating SOPs, User Guides and Checklists by testing, reviewing and suggesting small edits to drafts.
• Contribute to project management by ensuring project timesheets, project end reports and annual project reviews are completed. 
• Contribute to checks made of researchers before access is permitted to datasets. Simple but accuracy essential to comply with data protection.
• Contributing to installation of software for researchers. Simple software only.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

IT

• Excel – basics and conditional formatting, filters
• Word – basics and formatting and track changes and review options
• OneDrive – how to copy, move, edit, save, sync documents including OneNote files
• Software – able to learn to navigate new websites and install basic software

Communication

• Able to understand and follow instructions
• Able to manage their own task list (with tasks, deadlines, priorities provided)
• Able to ask for more guidance when required
• Able to report back on tasks - in progress and finished - clearly, accurately and timely
• Able to hear and talk effectively via Teams, in meetings, in emails, in work they contribute to

Problem solving

• If something doesn’t work or isn’t right, able to figure out why or what, describe the problem, and suggest appropriate solutions

Proactive

• If given a task able to see it through all necessary steps to completion
• Later, able to initiate tasks as part of their following SOPs