Student Casual – BCTU Data Manager – Medical School – Grade 4 – 907585 in Birmingham

If we receive a high volume of applications then we may close this advert early. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible.

Job Context

Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit is a large academic clinical trials unit with over a hundred staff and more than 50 active trials. BCTU makes sure these trials run day to day in compliance with regulations, participant safety, and scientific integrity. At the heart of this are the trial management teams, and at the heart of these are the data managers.

Role Summary
The data manager candidate will support a team running a portfolio of clinical trials, including neurology, mental health, and other areas. It will involve administrative tasks assisting a trial’s trial manager or established data managers. These tasks will be general office-based administration supporting a trial, or data management for a particular trial.

Main duties

• Administrative tasks including preparation of trial equipment packages for participants

• Data management including checking, reviewing and querying trial data

• Other general office based clinical trial support

Person Specification

• Attention to detail and thoroughness

• Computer literate with good standard of written English

If you would like to discuss the role, please email Ryan Ottridge (r.ottridge@bham.ac.uk)

The University of Birmingham restricts all students to working up to 20 hours per week during term time for a maximum of 13 consecutive weeks. If your application is successful and your course does not follow the usual academic term timetable (e.g. PGT, PGR or PhD student), you and your supervisor must formally agree vacation periods if this role exceeds 20 hours per week. In addition to this, please be aware if you are an international student you will be required to apply to the Registry for the appropriate authorised absence.

You are only eligible to apply to this role if you are a current University of Birmingham student. If you are not a University of Birmingham student your application will not be considered.

To work you will need to carry out a right to work check.These checks will need to be completed prior to work commencing.

Regarding the use of AI in applications, we review hundreds of applications and shortlist candidates based on their unique perspective, motivations and potential. Cover letters generated through, or edited by, AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT or CoPilot) are easy to identify. They produce generic answers and will not score highly enough to progress. You may use AI tools for research, but all written content in your application must be your own work. Authenticity and originality are key to standing out in this process.

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