Research Data manager and Coördinator

Health Research Data Onboarding & IT Adoption Lead

Job Description

We are looking for a proactive Research Data Coördinator / Data Manager to accelerate large health research via our ‘FAIR’ IT infrastructure: data catalogues, patient registries, *omics and imaging, high performance computing and federated analysis. You will primarily work with MOLGENIS, the long-standing open-source research infrastructure developed at the UMCG and used across the world.

In this role you will:

• Serve as the main point of contact between external data managers, researchers/users and project coordinators in large national and European projects, and our internal MOLGENIS technical teams.
• Plan, coordinate, and monitor the onboarding of data and users, including their integration with local IT and legal processes.
• Provide hands-on data management support and triage complex issues to specialist colleagues.
• Lead and support the adoption of MOLGENIS and other open-source tools for data cataloguing, federated analysis, and multi-centre study management.
• Contribute to training materials and workshops for data users and managers and guide data partners on best practices in research data management.

Working Environment

You will join MOLGENIS, the big data science research & service infrastructure at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG). Our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery in health using large data, open-source software and high-performance computing, enabling integrated analyses for rare disease, common disease, population cohorts, genetics, and multi-omics data. You will be part of a social, multi-site, multi-disciplinary team working on large-scale EU-funded projects, aimed at improving life-course health for citizens and patients: 1 Professor, 2 Postdocs, 5 Project/Team Leaders, 2 Product Adoptions Leads, 8 Scientific Software Developers, 8 Data Managers, 3 System Administrators, 3 PhD students.

What Do We Need

• Academic or HBO working level in (bio)informatics, medicine, life sciences, or related field.
• Demonstrable experience in research data management, project coordination, or data-intensive research.
• Strong communication skills in English; Dutch is a big plus.
• Ability to translate between IT people, experts from other domains and laymen.
• Independent, proactive, and skilled at collaborating across teams and disciplines within and outside the organisation.
• Nice-to-have: Experience with data management tools (Excel, CSV, SQL, R, Python).
• Willingness to travel (fly) occasionally within Europe.

What Do We Offer

We offer an exciting position for one year with the possibility of extension. 4/5 days per week with flexible and hybrid working hours. Your salary will be at a maximum of € 5.160,- gross per month, based on a full-time appointment (scale 9) by the UMCG, depending on your knowledge and skills. Additionally, the UMCG offers an 8% holiday allowance, an 8.3% year-end bonus. The conditions of employment comply with the Collective Labour Agreement for Medical Centres (CAO-UMC).