TDL Programme Coordinator – Skills
Grade UE06 – £32,982 - £38,205 per annum
The Data Lab / College of Science and Engineering
Fixed Term to 31st July 2027
Full Time: 35 fours per week
The Opportunity:
The Data Lab is Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI and was founded in 2014 as part of Scotland’s Innovation Centres programme. Through hubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, we foster innovation through collaboration, build skills and grow talent, and champion Scotland’s data and AI community.
The Programme Coordinator will provide a full range of support services to The Data Lab Skills Team with a primary focus on supporting The Data Lab Academy, a £500K+ skills programme developed in partnership with Scottish Government, academia and industry to support the pipeline of talent into data and AI roles in Scotland and beyond to address increasing industry demand. This is a key role in the TDL Skills Team to ensure the effective and efficient operation across the programme portfolio.
The Data Lab will be one of four centres funded by SFC as Innovation Infrastructure for Scotland, the other centres are: Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), Digital Health Institute (DHI) and Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBIOIC)
The Mission & Challenge
At The Data Lab (www.thedatalab.com), our purpose is to change lives and make Scotland a more productive and sustainable place by transforming the way we use data and AI. The Data Lab focuses on creating a highly skilled workforce and a closely connected business, academic and public sector community. Our purpose is underpinned by our values of Support, Respect, Innovate and Growth.
Our aim is to turn Scotland into a thriving, data-driven economy by working and partnering across the whole Scottish tech ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to help us drive responsible and ethical innovation in data and AI for the good of Scotland and beyond.
More information on The Data Lab’s impact is available in our recently published Impact Report, available on our website: https://thedatalab.com/about-us/impact-report-2023/
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As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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