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Data Manager - Research Assistant or Research Associate Research Assistant - £25,298 - £29,301 Research Associate - £29,301 - £38,183 The Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (CEU) within the DPHPC (one of Europe's leading academic departments of population health sciences) is an internationally recognised interdisciplinary group currently comprising >60 staff and students. We are seeking a data manager within the CEU whose main responsibility will be to help maintain complex databases for epidemiological studies. Working within an established data management team with existing systems, the post holder will collate, clean and harmonise data from various sources to develop and maintain databases for epidemiological studies. The post holder will be expected to distribute subsets of information from the master databases on the instructions of the PI, track different versions of data releases sent to users and provide regular updates of data to users, as instructed. Ideally suited to someone seeking a new challenge, the post-holder will have: (1) Relevant degree [1st / 2(i)] or post graduate qualification in mathematics or similar or equivalent experience, and; (2) Some experience of programming, preferably in a structured programming language such as SAS, R, Perl or STATA. The post-holder should have a systematic and rigorous approach to work with excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills. Appointment at research associate is dependent on having a PhD (or equivalent experience), including those who have submitted but not yet received their PhD. Where a PhD has yet to be awarded appointment will initially be made at research assistant and amended to research associate when the PhD is awarded. Informal enquiries can be made to Liza Clarke ([log in to unmask]) or telephone 01223 748622. Location of post: Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN (approx 2 miles south of city centre) The funds for these posts are available until 31st December 2019 in the first instance. Closing date: 11th January 2017 Interview Dates: 19th and 20th January 2017 To apply online for this vacancy, please visit http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12335/. This will route you to the University's Web Recruitment System, where you will need to register an account (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form. Please ensure that you upload a covering letter and CV in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.