The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. The Institute is named in honour of the scientist Alan Turing and its mission is to make great leaps in data science and artificial intelligence research in order to change the world for the better.

The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. The project goal is to provide all the information that data scientists in academia, industry, government and the third sector need at the start of their projects to ensure that they are easy to reproduce and reuse at the end. The contributors within The Turing Way collaborate to develop chapters and resources on data science available as an online book with five guides on reproducibility, project design, communication, collaboration, and research ethics. A community handbook is maintained to document and showcase good practices in open research -- allowing anyone to develop a similar project in data science from scratch.

The Turing Way Community Manager will create, nurture and protect the conditions required for successful technical communication across diverse and distributed research communities internal to The Alan Turing Institute as well as national and international collaborators. We anticipate that the postholder will need to embody core values of stewardship, compassion, and collaboration, in addition to their commitment to equity and inclusion as described in the Turing's "Rules of the Game".

As a steward of their community, the Community Manager will see how individual pieces fit together as a whole. The postholder will possess the communication, motivation and collaboration skills required to bring the community together. They will surface implicit knowledge and make information explicit so that everyone who wants to can participate. The postholder will coordinate new and existing community-led project activities, encourage and empower diverse contributors to engage and lead those activities, and contribute to the development of a project sustainability strategy.

The Turing Way can only achieve - and communicate - its ambitious goals if it is delivered by involving and supporting domain experts from the wider research and data science communities. The ideal candidate for The Turing Way Community Manager will treat all members of the community with compassion. They will support people to share and promote the skills that they already have, understand the experiences of people from a range of diverse backgrounds, and identify what they need to effectively work together. They will identify areas of implicit knowledge and expertise within The Turing Way research community and make this information explicit.

DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Coordinate and facilitate The Turing Way community management and day-to-day operational activities in the project. This will include organising and hosting community meetings or events such as Collaboration Cafes, co-working calls and workshops. This may require working with the community to identify new skill requirements and develop training materials or resources appropriate to support the dynamic research community working in the Alan Turing Institute and The Turing Way.

Please see the job description for a full breakdown of the Duties and Responsibilities.

Essential

• Bachelor's degree or a Master's Degree in a discipline which provides a good basis for understanding statistics, data science and programming.
• Experience in:
• Basic coding skills in any programming language.
• Git for version control and Github or GitLab for project management.
• An understanding of the importance of good practices for producing reliable software and reproducible analyses (e.g. version control, issue tracking, automated testing, package management, literate analysis tools such as Jupyter and Rmarkdown).
• Experience managing, structuring and analysing research data.
• Track record of any combination of:
• Publishing articles, FAIR data sets, and/or open source software libraries for an academic audience.
• Publishing articles, blog posts, for a general audience.
• Publishing white papers or policy briefings for an audience of decision makers in government, industry or the charity sector.

Please see the job description for a full breakdown of the Person Specification.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click the apply button below. You will need to register on the applicant portal and complete the application form including your CV and covering letter. If you have questions about the role or would like to apply using a different format, please contact them on 020 3970 2148 or 0203 862 3340, or email [email protected].

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CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 24th OCTOBER 2021 at 23.59

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This full time post is offered on a fixed term basis for two years. The annual salary is £37,000-£42,000 plus excellent benefits, including flexible working and family friendly policies, https://www.turing.ac.uk/work-turing/why-work-turing/employee-benefits.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

The Alan Turing Institute is committed to creating an environment where diversity is valued and everyone is treated fairly. In accordance with the Equality Act, we welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Reasonable adjustments to the interview process will be made for any candidates with a disability.

Please note all offers of employment are subject to obtaining and retaining the right to work in the UK and satisfactory pre-employment security screening which includes a DBS Check.

Full details on the pre-employment screening process can be requested from [email protected].