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**KTP Associate for MoreLife Project**

Research and Innovation Services
- Grade 7:

- £35,333 per annum
- Fixed Term-Full Time**Contract Duration***:28 months**Contracted Hours per Week***:37**Closing Date***:28-Mar-2023, 11:59:00 PM
- **Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement***:Not Applicable.

**The KTP Project**

The KTP Associate will lead a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project that is a collaboration between Durham University and MoreLife UK Ltd. based in Leeds. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme helps businesses to innovate and grow through the aid of discipline specific academic expertise. It does this by linking them with an academic supervisory team and a researcher in a university to work on a specific project.

Working alongside CTO, project managers, digital programme lead, psychology lead and software development team, the KTP Associate will be involved in a project to design, develop and implement innovative methods for delivering real-time personalised weight management interventions, via an accessible digital platform.

**Department of Computer Science**

**Location**:
The KTP Associate will be employed by Durham University but will be based at MoreLife UK, Leeds, and will be expected to spend time

in Durham University to undertake the partnerships objectives.

**Additional Information**:
For an informal discussion about the post please contact:
**Person Specification**

**The Requirements**

**Essential**:
**Qualifications**
- A first degree in Computer Science or other numerate discipline with a significant component of computing
- PhD in Computer Science / machine learning / data science

**Experience**
- Experience of designing, performing and completing a research project
- Demonstrable ability to communicate verbally and written project results to a variety of audiences including non-technical
- Evidence of ability to write reports and scientific papers

**Skills**
- Machine learning
- Data science
- Programming languages, particularly Python
- User studies
- Collection of heterogeneous data
- Teamwork - demonstrable ability to work cooperatively as part of a team, including participating in research meetings
- Independent work demonstrate skills in time and project management
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

**Attributes**
- Ability to work and communicate with (very) different disciplines e.g., MoreLife psychologists, nutritionists and engage with MoreLife clients

**Desirable skills**:

- Understanding of HCI, user experience evaluation and user-centred system design
- Understanding of ethics in AI (fairness, responsible AI principles)
- Understanding of agile methodology and project life cycle
- Demonstrable ability to work cooperatively as part of a diverse and interdisciplinary team
- Show ability to communicate efficiently with end-users
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Prior publication record in scientific venues