Data Steward - Sequencing & Phenotyping
About the job
What you'll do
Support researchers with data management throughout the research lifecycle, including organizing, documenting, reviewing, and preparing sequencing and phenotyping datasets for analysis, publication, and reuse. Help apply metadata standards and FAIR practices, advise on repositories and access conditions, and connect datasets to the CropXR Resilience Hub while contributing to programme-wide data-management guidance.
What they're looking for
A completed MSc-level degree or equivalent academic training in a relevant field, along with a good understanding of how biological research data is generated and used, is required. Candidates should be comfortable with metadata, FAIR principles, and research repositories, communicate clearly in English, and be willing to learn relevant standards; familiarity with structured data or scripting is useful.