Vision, Speech & Signal Processing

Location: Guildford
Salary: £34,308 to £39,745 per annum
Fixed Term
Post Type: Full Time
Closing Date: 23.59 hours GMT on Sunday 15 January 2023
Reference: 084822

This is a great opportunity for a statistical analyst to grow their career in our Datalab team within the Data Innovation Hub for Animal Health.   

We are a global community of staff and students, working and learning in an inspiring, innovative and diverse environment to make a positive impact through education and research. We have a bold vision of what we want to achieve through the talents and endeavour of every employee so your work will make a real, impactful difference.

On top of this, you’ll be rewarded with a generous pension, relocation assistance, flexible working options including job share and blended home/campus working locations (dependent on work duties). There is also access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes and supportive family friendly benefits including our Bright Horizons on-site workplace nursery, which has an excellent 91% parent satisfaction score.

This role will complement our existing strengths in data science through proven expertise in statistical analysis and development and implementation of database technologies for the provision of new solutions in research, industry or education.

Your primary project will be the development and enhancement of the Data Innovation Hub for Animal Health by adding statistical analysis to on-going and forthcoming research projects. The vision for the hub is to build a trusted, bespoke, global animal health ecosystem, which will comprise of a secure global repository for animal health information from all stakeholders in the animal health value chain together with the appropriate tools for its exploration.

We are looking for you to have the ability to perform statistical analysis and calculations such as power analysis, NOVA/ANOVA analysis, calculate errors and statistical confidence limits along with the ability to present and explain statistical analysis procedures. You will be experienced with analysing data profiling, data mining, data cleansing, data content, scrubbing data, and translating data via rules from one database to another, and experience with ER/Studio, MySQL, or a comparable database is essential.

We aim to attract the best possible talent from the broadest range of people and continue to improve the number of staff from groups that are under-represented across our workforce. We provide an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all and value everyone in our community. Therefore, we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities. We are proud to hold the Race Equality Charter, Athena Swan Charter, Disability Confident, Accessible and UK Workplace Equality Index.

This is a fixed term contract for up to 12 months.

If you require further information on this position, please contact Kevin Wells: k.wells@surrey.ac.uk

Please upload your CV together with a covering letter with your application.

Further details: Job Description

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In return we offer a generous pension, relocation assistance where appropriate, flexible working options including job share and blended home/campus working locations (dependent on work duties), access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery.

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The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.