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Operations Coordinator
Grade - UE07 £36,333 - £43,155
CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute
Contract type: Full time 35 Hours per week
Open Ended contract
Location: Usher Institute moves to a new building in Edinburgh Bioquarter, early 2024

As Operations Coordinator in the Health and Social Care Data Driven Innovation Programme, your exceptional organisation skills and ability to build strong relationships mean you will play a central role in bringing the Programme’s vision to reality.

This will include:

• Creating and supporting an Innovation Community where the public, private and third sectors collaborate to enable data driven advances in the delivery of health and social care - using your experience of helping multiple stakeholders collaborate with coherent operational processes, systems and platforms.
• Supporting the Community’s partners and members - using your extensive expertise in delivering customer-focussed operational support.
• Ensuring consistency and co-ordination of operational activity across the Hub and interfacing with the wider University, including other DDI Hubs.

Enthusiasm for the use of data in health and social care innovation, and initiative and drive in building strong relationships, will be needed to make this exciting Programme a success.

The Opportunity:
The Health and Social Care Data Driven Innovation Programme (HSCDDI) is hosted at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh. It is enabling service, commercial and academic interests from across the south-east region of Scotland, and beyond, to actively deliver data and digital solutions for the challenges facing the health and social care sector. The Programme’s capabilities include Dataloch, a best-in-class secure health and care data service, and an extensive data skills training and education initiative. The Usher Innovation Community will be the Programme’s main delivery vehicle and will consist both of commercial partners leasing space in the new Usher building, currently under construction at Edinburgh’s BioQuarter, and a virtual membership from across the health and social care sector in Scotland, the UK and more widely.

To help deliver health and social care solutions, the Community will be run by a core team which will develop and manage the membership model; establish a programme of engagement and marketing activity for health and social care stakeholders across the public, private and third sectors; provide operational support; and enable cross-regional co-ordination of innovation activity.

As a key part of this core team, the Operations Coordinator will

• Support the development and implementation of the operational plan
• Lead on the effective working integration with the Usher Institute operations staff and Estates facilities management
• Support the Usher Innovation Community leasing partners and virtual members
• Lead monitoring, and where necessary maintenance, of HSCDDI operational systems including reporting (KPIs, impact, use cases, performance management), financial, and innovation community membership
• Lead development and management of systems and methods to deliver shared team resources; operational processes; and calendar of HSCDDI activities

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Marcus Harrison, Director Health and Social Care Data Driven Innovation Programme ([email protected]).

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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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The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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