Internal Only
7 months ago
**Job Purpose**
Support the University within the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) group, carrying out supporting work, providing advice, guidance and support, and leading projects within this area
- **Duties and Responsibilities**
**Key Duties**
- Provide professional advice and guidance on the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), processes and procedures to internal and external customers that will have institute-wide impacts, using your judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood including assisting both academic and commercial HGMD users/customers with both simple and more complex queries.
- Take responsibility for resolving issues independently within the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), where they fall within set role objectives to include independently verifying and correcting errors in the literature either by direct communication or through the use of other online resources.
- Investigate and analyse specific issues within the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), creating recommendation reports, supported by advances within the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD). This will include analysing workload patterns, internal software streamlining and mutation data throughput to recommend improved internal procedures.
- Ensure that the provision of the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD), is delivered to the institution, proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements.
- Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required. Contacts will include authors and research collaborators.
- Create specific working groups from colleagues across the University to achieve school/departmental objectives.
- Plan and deliver specific small-scale projects, co-ordinating and supervising project teams created as needed for mini data curation projects within the group.
- Develop and deliver training to new recruits within the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD).
- Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department and instruct and guide other employees across the University within the Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD).
**General Duties**
- Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
- Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity.
- Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.
**Person Specification**
**Essential Criteria**
**Qualifications and Education**
1. Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience
- **Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
2. Substantial experience of working within biocuration/human genetics
- 3. Able to demonstrate professional knowledge within biocuration/human genetics to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers
- 4. Proven experience in developing new processes and procedures
- **Customer Service, Communication and Team Working**
5. Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people
- 6. Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt the service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered
- 7. Proven ability to develop networks in order to contribute to long term developments
- **Planning, Analysis and Problem Solving**
8. Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identify and propose both practical and innovative solutions
- 9. Evidence of demonstrable knowledge of key advances within biocuration/human genetics
- 10. Evidence of ability to undertake and deliver specific projects and supervise short term project teams
- **Desirable Criteria**
11. Postgraduate/Professional qualification
- 12. Experience of working in a Higher Education environment
- 13. Fluency in Welsh, written and oral
**Additional Information**
**How we will support you in performing in this role -**
There are some things that you must have before you can start this role (see ‘Essential Criteria’), but other things can be developed either through training, or just by general on-the-job experience. We want to support and develop you once you have started in the role using a combination of the following to get the best out of you:
- 1. Regular one-to-ones with your manager
- 2. An experienced and supportive team around you
- 3. Supporting you through job-relevant training and development that you may require
- 4. A mentoring scheme
- **IMPORTANT: Evidencing Criteria**Salary Range Min.**
- 39,347
**Salary Range Max.**
- 44,263
**Job Category**
- Information Technology, Management & Executive
**Grade**
- Grade 6
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