Data Officer

**Salary**: From £30,000 per annum negotiable depending on experience
**Hours**: 35 hours per week
**Contract**: 5 month FTC
**Reports into**: Research Impact & Engagement Manager
**Location**: Hybrid - A blend of working from home and your nominated hub office, we have hubs in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford. Specific patterns for working in the office are not mandated, and the frequency of time worked in the office is agreed with your manager. Meeting in person is something we value so you may need to travel on occasion to any of our hub offices.
**About Jisc**:
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions. Our talented people bring their own unique skills and experience to empower our members and customers with the technology they need to succeed. Take your next career step with us and you can make a real difference to the education and research sectors.
**About the role**:
This role will be based within the UK Data Service team which is part of the content and discovery area within Jisc’s digital resources directorate.
We are a small team who provide access to census and international data, and evidence and promote impact of research supported by data in our collection.
In this role you will be responsible for taking large and complex datasets (census data) and preparing them for ingest into UK Data Service platforms in accordance with agreed quality standards for data and metadata.
**Responsibilities will include**:

- Developing a solid understanding of the complex structures of census aggregate data and international microdata
- Implementing timely processing and delivery through our sub-setting platform of outputs from the UK 2021 and 2022 censuses
- Ensuring that data processing processes adhere to best practice and are robust, extensible and standards compliant

**Key Skills and Experience**:

- Some experience of working with relational databases, including PostgresSQL or SQL Server.
- Experience of working with large datasets with a complex structure.
- Good understanding of Python and methods for data processing would be desirable

Don’t meet every single requirement?
Why work for us?
At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. We want to create a culture of lifelong learning. You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.
We believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment. We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working.
It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. Our hybrid working policy is flexible, and the frequency of time spent in your nominated office will vary across teams and job roles.
**Take a look at our fantastic benefits We offer**:

- Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
- 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas plus the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days
- Generous flexible pension schemes
- Protection benefit - life cover
- Annual Jisc performance award
- A range of wellbeing lifestyle benefits including company paid health care cash plan, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders and support
- A generous budget to support you with external learning and continuous professional development
- Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
- Financial well-being support including access to preferential loan and savings plans, mortgage advice, will writing tools and support and resources to help you make the most of your money
- The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
- Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech - spreading the cost of your everyday white goods and technology
- A wide range of discounts from retailers and big-name high-street stores and CSSC membership
- Family friendly policies including enhanced parental, maternity and paternity leave and opportunity for career breaks
- Support your volunteering with up to 3 days volunteer leave
- Cycle to work scheme and eye care scheme including free eye test vouchers and £70 towards new glasses for VDU use
- Free flu vaccinations
- Employee recognition awards and travel loans
- A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning

**Equity, diversity and inclusion**:
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