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Type: Fixed-term / full time

Salary:   £20,041 - £23,415 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Oatridge, West Lothian

Reference: ACF/REG/055/21

Closing date: 22 May 2022

SRUC are looking to welcome an experienced administrator to join the busy team providing administrative support to the Academic Records and Admissions teams and helping ensure effective and efficient systems, processes and procedures are in place, and implemented, within SRUC’s academic records, admissions and student fees/funding function.

The successful candidate may be based at SRUC’s Oatridge Campus in West Lothian as part of the Academic Records team within the Registry function. Consideration will be given to other SRUC Campus locations.

To be considered for this role, you should possess an HNC/D or equivalent experience relevant to the role. A qualification in business administration to SVQ level 3 or equivalent is desirable.

You should be an experienced administrator with proven experience of high-volume data input, process-driven workflows and providing an effective service to internal and external stakeholders. Some knowledge of FE and/or HE in Scotland would be beneficial including experience of student admissions and/or student fees/funding. You should possess a flexible attitude and be able to work to tight deadlines. Data reporting and report-writing skills are particularly beneficial in this role. 

This is a full time role on a fixed term contract providing maternity cover for up to 9 months.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary:   £27,526 - £29,584 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Barony, Dumfries

Reference: ASWF/ILM/026/21

Closing date: 29 May 2022

Are you a service engineer looking for a new challenge? We are seeking a highly motivated individual to help consolidate and grow SRUC’s engineering education and training provision at our Barony Campus.

The successful candidate will have proven skills in the service, maintenance, diagnostics and repair of modern machines and have the ability to understand and operate a range of machinery in a safe and efficient manner.

Previous experience of instructing techniques is not essential as training will be provided to the successful candidate. Key responsibilities of this post will include:

• contributing to the delivery of education, training and assessment – focussed on a wide range of practical skills as well as classroom teaching
• planning and preparing an engaging, inclusive learning experience to progress learning, working both independently and cooperatively with others where relevant
• maintaining appropriate records of teaching, assessment and attendance and providing educational guidance, counselling and tutorials as required to students
• ensuring that campus-based and work-based learning programmes meet as a minimum the relevant contractual and QA requirements
• ensuring compliance with the policy and guidelines on health and safety in teaching
• working with the Programme Team Leader to help identify opportunities to further develop the academic portfolio to increase student recruitment
• maintaining appropriate liaison with the land-based industries and ensuring that personal skills and qualifications are updated

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Robert Paterson, Programme Team Leader: Engineering by email robert.paterson@sruc.ac.uk.

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Type: Fixed term (6 months) / full time

Salary:  £24,789 - £28,707 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Edinburgh

Reference: ACF/REES/063/21

Closing date: 26 May 2022

The Rural Economy, Environment and Society Department (REES) at SRUC is one of the largest groupings of socio-economists in the UK. Current policy demands challenges mean that the importance of applied economics and evidence-led research has never been greater. We are looking for an economist with experience of agricultural policy and application of frameworks to support our work on rural and agricultural sectors. The successful candidates would support current work for a variety of funders, applying quantitative methodologies to both primary and secondary data and would engage in the development policy reports and academic papers. Specific studies include cost-benefit analyses, support payment adjustment scenarios and reviews of interventions around climate change, animal health and land use management.

The successful candidates would join a growing team of economists working on interventions and future pathways for replacement agricultural policy in Scotland. The post holder will work with experienced agricultural economists to support current work but also to identify analytical pathways for future research. This work will inform Scottish Government to improve understanding of the potential agricultural sector impacts arising from policy scenarios. In addition, the post-holders would also be expected to support teaching in economic and rural business subjects.

You will have a doctoral degree in a subject related to economics with a background in applied economic analysis towards agricultural and climate change issues. Experience of post-doctoral research will be desirable as well as the publication of academic papers in recognised journals. Evidence of writing for a range of audiences would also be desirable.

These positions will be based in the Rural Economy, Environment and Society Research Group, SRUC King’s Buildings Edinburgh. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Andrew Barnes, email: Andrew.Barnes@sruc.ac.uk.

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Type: Fixed term 3 years / full time

Salary: £32,067 - £37,636 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush near Edinburgh

REF: ACF/AVS/093/21

Closing date: 30 May 2022

This is an opportunity to be a major contributor in a team leading research in the application of Machine Learning (ML) to animal breeding and genetics. The group has already published 3 peer reviewed papers using Deep Learning and seek to develop more applications of Machine Learning to agricultural data. You will work closely with the livestock industry to extract novel phenotypes from new sources of data such as milk mid infra-red spectral data and digital images using machine learning. The successful candidate will work within an integrated group of 10 programmers and geneticists, 7 of which work within EGENES so application of new developments has a very short route to application. Our work is varied and interesting ranging from extracting existing phenotypes better through to researching new phenotypes predicted from milk MIR and digital images and analysed with Deep Learning. For instance, recently, we succeeded in the use of deep learning applied to milk mid-infra red spectral data for Bovine tuberculosis prediction at the industry level, and we are looking for implementing similar strategies for other complex traits such as feed intake and methane emissions, among others.

We investigate hardware acceleration of compute intensive processes on GPUs and FPGAs and are constantly investigating new and better ways of doing things. Every day is different in Animal Breeding and Genomics. We have an institutional relationahip with NVIDIA to use machine learning and accelerated computing through GPUs. We use an NVIDIA DGX station with 4 GPUs with over 20,000 cores that processes 33 billion spectral data points. Every day is different in animal breeding and the team is highly focused on delivering on time every time providing a very supportive and team based work environment.

We are seeking a Geneticist or Bioinformatician who can take a major role in the Animal Breeding and Genomics Team working closely with our Machine Learning specialist Dr Scott Denholm and the other geneticists (Professor Raph Mrode, Dr Samir Id Lahoucine, Professor Mike Coffey) and the animal breeding team team to develop methodologies to produce benefits from the application of ML to agricultural data. A less experienced person with the right approach and attitude will be considered. We work with dairy and beef cattle, sheep, dairy goats, pigs. We have hundreds of thousands of genotypes, tens of millions of animal records and over 30 billions of spectral records. If you like big data sets this is the job for you.

Required Skills:

• a post doctorate qualification in quantitative genetics
• excellent numerical and statistical powers
• programming experience and the ability to learn new languages
• good communication ability
• good analytical/problem solving skills
• excellent team player skills
• attention to detail

Desirable Skills:

• SQL Server experience
• FORTRAN
• scripting
• slarge data handling experience
• genetic evaluation experience

This is a full-time role on a fixed term contract for 3 years.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £34,192 - £37,700 per annum (under review) 

Location: SRUC King's Buildings, Edinburgh / flexible

REF: CFPS/IDS/007/22

Closing date: 29 May 2022

We are currently seeking a Business Analyst whose main purpose will be to assist customers in identifying, developing and implementing business change to achieve quantifiable objectives in line with the Organisational mission and therefore contributes to business analysis for strategic University process reviews in core business areas; to assist in formulating recommendations for process improvement and the effective exploitation of suitable technology by using their expertise in the analysis of processes on allocated work activities and projects.

Whilst more project focused they will be expected to develop business transformation strategies and business cases that will help the University achieve its corporate goals and objectives. In this role you will:

• undertake information gathering, analysis, collation and documentation of specific and agreed information for both large and small scale projects
• select and use a variety of techniques for data gathering including interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, product analysis, data models and workflow analysis on large scale projects
• prepare analysis documentation, unambiguously and concisely, using diagrammatic representations and prototyping tools where appropriate, and presents proposals to business process review sponsors and stakeholders
• identify potential solution options (computerised or otherwise), assessing them for both technical and business suitability
• work closely with a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility, adequate testing, support training, user training and user satisfaction
• provide technical input into decisions of local or group-wide processes
• support IDS staff in identifying ways to improve group processes for business analysis especially by keeping up to date with technical as well as industry sector developments
• design and provide documentation for group staff to enable them to operate and support defined business processes
• if so designated, act as a means of engagement to specific Faculties or Services on behalf of IDS to develop business roadmaps, user journey’s and personas

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £27,312 - £31,896 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Craibstone, Aberdeen

REF: ANF/FO/066/21

Closing date: 5 June 2022

SRUC are looking for an enthusiastic, creative team player to work within our Craibstone Campus Library based in Aberdeen.

Your core responsibility will be to provide an efficient and effective library and information service through management of staff and stock, manage and administer a range of e-resources, provision of user training as required and contribute to the Libraries strategy supporting SRUC activities.

The successful candidate should ideally possess a professional library qualification and have significant proven ability in a supervisory role. You will be a self-starter who is able to work independently as well as in a team. You will be fully conversant with current IT developments and will have significant experience of managing a range of services such as VLEs, social media, e-books and e-journals, and other e-resources.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £32,563 - £38,310 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Craibstone, Aberdeen

REF: CFPS/CES /030/21

Closing date: 29 May 2022

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Compliance and Carbon Management Coordinator at SRUC’s Craibstone campus in Aberdeen. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that SRUC complies with all H&S legislation and carbon footprint reduction relating to the day to day management and maintenance of the facilities, estates and property by providing a professional advisory and audit function of all activities of Campus and Estates Services. The post holder will be the named Person responsible for delivering on our climate change objectives.

The role will involve managing the processes and co-ordinating the planning of all compliance maintenance activities to ensure consistency and accuracy is achieved across all Campus and Estates Service activities, records and logs. This will extend into the day to day control of the Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) and Building Management Systems. The postholder will be required to oversee, audit and develop CES’s processes and procedures for the control of contractors to ensure compliance with CDM, Climate Change Targets and other relevant legislation.

The successful candidate should possess a Building Surveying, Engineering or Environmental qualification to at least HNC/HND standard. Relevant experience of climate change and meeting set targets for carbon reductions is essential along with experience of asset management and maintenance planning utilising a proprietary CAFM system.

Health and Safety awareness in the building, construction and engineering fields, specifically on maintenance and statutory compliance, is essential as is relevant experience of managing asbestos across a wide portfolio of property.

This is a full-time, permanent post. Placement on the salary scale will be dependent on qualifications and experience.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £29,796 - £34,941 per annum (under review)

Location: SAC Consulting, Edinburgh Technopole / flexible

REF: CML/CS/014/22

Closing date: 12 June 2022

SAC Consulting, a division of SRUC are currently seeking a Consultant (Ecologist) to join the specialist consulting Environment team. The main purposes of this role are:

1. to provide expert ecological input into public, private and third sector client work carried out by SAC Consulting
2. to lead the development of ecological skills and knowledge of colleagues across SAC Consulting
3. to work with the Consultant (Ecology) to help establish closer working relationships between colleagues in SAC Consulting and SRUC in the delivery of ecological projects.

The job holder will work closely with the Senior Consultant (Ecology), colleagues from across the Food & Footprint business area (encompassing the Environment Team, the Forestry & Woodlands Team, and Food & Enterprise Team) and the wider business (especially regionally focussed Conservation Consultants and key researchers and teaching colleagues in the wider SRUC). They will contribute to this work, inspiring through their knowledge, values and ways of working. They will help increase the amount of ecological work done by SAC Consulting, both directly but also by helping colleagues across the business. They will be important in helping SAC Consulting become an organisation that sees ecology as a fundamental part of what it does.

Key elements of the role will include: national public sector natural capital projects; peatland restoration; development of tailored guidance for colleagues and land managers; environmental impact assessment related work for infrastructure projects; policy support for research and consulting colleagues and public sector clients; and internal training of conservation and general consultancy colleagues; providing specialist input to tenders and marketing material to highlight SAC Consulting’s capabilities relating to ecology. The jobholder will be line managed by the Senior Consultant (Ecology).

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £30,092 - £32,152 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC King's Buildings, Edinburgh

REF: CFPS/DIG/078/21

Closing date: 29 May 2022

Reporting to the Digital Manager, the purpose of the role will involve creating content for web and social media – video, audio (including podcasts) animation, photos and written content.

The role holder will effectively engage through multiple channels with a variety of audiences. This includes:

• potential students
• potential training course customers
• various stakeholder groups (academia, industry, government)

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in communicating the changing face of SRUC, in particular our new and existing course offering across further and higher education. It is a key part of our growth agenda – we are making a major investment to increase student numbers in the next decade, and this role is one of a number of roles focused on realising that ambition.

To be considered, you should be educated to degree level in a related subject (preferably in digital media, communication or marketing). Applicants with equivalent experience may be considered.

You will also be expected to demonstrate solid knowledge & experience of social media content creation, including photo and video (storyboarding, filming and editing), and experience across the main social media channels/content platforms we use (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo). The role will involve travel to our various campuses across Scotland to capture student, animal, academic and other content through high quality video and photos.

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Type: Casual / part time / full time

Salary:   £32,300 - £37,999 per annum (under review)

Location: Strathfillan Wigwams, Tyndrum, Perthshire

Reference: CML/WIG/084/21

Closing date: 5 June 2022

The Strathfillan Wigwam® Village sits on a working farm in Scotland's West Highlands, amidst the wooded glens of Trossachs National Park and near Loch Lomond. It is the perfect place for glamping in the Highlands.  Surrounded by thick forests, wildflowers and chirping songbirds, a glamping holiday in Strathfillan is the perfect way to experience the majestic nature of the Highlands and for holidaymakers to enjoy some time to themselves among loved ones in one of 22 Wigwam® camping pods.

This is an exciting role working in a small team providing customer care for wigwams clients through cleaning of accommodation units, kitchens and toilet shower rooms in service blocks and undertake landscape maintenance duties on wigwam and camping site.

In this role you will be involved in:

• Morning Cleaning
• Maintenance
• Shop duties and wigwams reception, some cash handling and booking on computer
• The site is 7 day, 365 days per year – a flexible work pattern
• Flexible hours in association with other staff needed, dependent upon demand – high to medium to low season – up to 37 hours per week if required.

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Type: Fixed term 12 months / full time

Salary:  £31,262 to £36,779 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Edinburgh

Reference: CFPS/HR/002/22

Closing date: 5 June 2022

We are currently seeking an experienced Recruitment professional for this consultancy role to directly support the Recruitment Manager in providing an efficient, cost-effective and professional global recruitment service to SRUC that is legally compliant and delivers an excellent customer and candidate experience as well as contributing to SRUC-wide HR activities and projects.

You will consult with managers to understand hiring requirements and provide advice on effective sourcing and assessment strategies – including sourcing options; ad copy writing; job particulars creation; selection and assessment tools advice - including psychometric testing and psychological profiling provision, advising on right to work in UK, immigration rules/processes, equality, promoting diversity and inclusive recruitment practices and candidate management.

In this role you will:

• manage vacancies from inception through to offer using our applicant management system and a variety of global online and print media sourcing channels (and agencies where appropriate), manage advert responses, create interview schedules and assessment centres, process right to work documentation, prepare legally compliant offers – including preparation of sponsorship papers and visa process for migrant workers where appropriate
• provide appropriate coaching / training / tools for the business to effectively engage in devolved recruitment activities e.g. shortlisting, interviewing, assessing/rating, selection decision-making to enable effective decisions and most appropriate appointments to be made that contribute to and enhance the overall effectiveness of the business
• source, interpret and analyse management information to assist in workforce planning, sourcing strategies, best values and effective recruitment practices and engaging with the Recruitment Manager to agree and implement associated action plans
• support the Recruitment Manager in delivering HR projects and change initiatives related to recruitment and wider HR activities where appropriate/required
• contribute to the design, review, revision, implementation and maintenance of HR policies and procedures in relation to all aspects of recruitment and encourage the consistent application of related best practice across SRUC
• deputise for and represent the Recruitment Manager as appropriate both internally and externally

You should be degree level qualified in a related discipline (e.g. Human Resources, Training or a related subject) or possess equivalent experience.

Membership of a relevant professional body i.e. CIPD (or a willingness to achieve) is highly desirable as is possession of a qualification in psychometric assessment / psychological profiling.

You should have a proven track record of working in a professional recruitment role with demonstrable experience of engaging, influencing and advising managers on all issues related to sourcing, assessment, selection and on-boarding.

You will bring a well-developed knowledge of relevant HR best practice and employment legislation, particularly related to recruitment, terms and conditions of employment and immigration law and should have a proven track record of successfully handling multiple stakeholders in a multiple project environment

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £37,237 - £42,607 per annum (under review) 

Location: SRUC King's Buildings, Edinburgh / flexible

REF: CFPS/IDS/006/22

Closing date: 29 May 2022

Our Infrastructure is at the heart of our operations and this post will develop/implement, maintain, monitor and support IS infrastructure systems and networks as expertise allows. The postholder will provide technical support to address problems/issues experienced in the operation of SRUC IS Infrastructure.  

This role will be central to the future architecture and operations of SRUC systems with a particular emphasis on Research compute, storage and network.

This role will fulfil several technical hands-on activities relating to systems and networks – ensuring systems are designed, maintained and patched, configured securely and managed according to SRUC quality standards. Management of systems will include backups, AD account management, and set up requests.  

Reporting to the Digital Services and Information Security Manager, duties will include:

• architecture and design of systems to support the needs of Research and wider SRUC focussing on providing a flexible and manageable storage and compute platform
• design and manage infrastructure implementations and changes across a wide variety of network and server technologies, these include, but will not be restricted to:
  • Windows and Linux server administration
  • some hands on with containerisation technologies e.g.., Docker
  • responsibility for relevant backups and batch jobs
  • identity management; Shibboleth, Ezproxy, Modern Auth, Oauth
  • support, patching maintenance and monitoring of physical and virtual server infrastructure
  • ensuring data confidentiality, integrity and availability (backups, disk encryption etc)
• support, patching maintenance and monitoring of physical and virtual server infrastructure
• development – Plan major product upgrades and testing
• change Control – Assess impact of changes and agree formal change control with line managers to minimise risk of service disruption
• QA/testing - ensuring all changes made at a production level are appropriately tested and approved.
• training and Documentation – provide and maintain end user training documentation and ensure system level documentation is up to date
• ensuring all group policies are implemented and adhered to
• Working outside of normal business hours when required to minimise disruption of services to the end users.
• 3rd party supplier relationships

keeping up to date with latest security and technology developments.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £19,048 - £21,666 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Pentlands Science Park, Bush Estate near Edinburgh

REF: AJN/VS/064/21

Closing date: 7 June 2022

Based in SRUC’s Veterinary Services Analytical laboratories, in this role the main duties will include:

• general laboratory duties including unpacking, preparation and processing samples for internal labs and external service provider
• registering and moving samples within Labware
• courier driver between sites.
• PM support
• general administrative duties including dealing with telephone/email enquiries, basic finance duties and administrative support to staff within the Veterinary and Analytical Laboratory
• requirement to follow SOPs and lab quality assurance procedures
• requirement to follow Health & Safety procedures
• preparation of samples to be referred to external service provider
• general cleaning duties
• dealing with visitors

Hours: 8:46a.m – 5:10p.m or 11:36a.m – 8.00pm Monday to Friday on a rotational basis with a lunch break of 1 hour each day.

In addition, all laboratory staff are expected to work occasional/regular Saturday morning 0830 – 1230 on a rota basis.

Applicants should hold a minimum of 4 Standard Grades (or equivalent). Current full drivers licence is essential as some driving duties are a core part of this role.

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Type: Fixed term / full time

Salary:   £31,426 - £38,693 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Barony, Dumfries

Reference: ASWF/ILM/031/21

Closing date: 29 May 2022

Are you an experienced service engineer within the agricultural or forestry sector? Are you looking for a new challenge? We are seeking a highly motivated individual to help grow SRUC’s engineering education and training provision at our Barony Campus. This post is for 6 months in the first instance.

The successful candidate will have proven theory and practical skills in: the service, maintenance, diagnostics and repair of hydraulic and electronic systems; ability to service, maintain, diagnose and repair engines and transmissions along with other common systems utilised on tractors and modern machinery; ability to understand and operate a range of machinery in a safe and efficient manner.

We expect the successful candidate to have a background in either agricultural engineering or forestry engineering. Key responsibilities of the lecturer will include:

• preparation of learning materials
• delivering programmes of education, training and assessment, including a wide range of practical skills to a high standard or workmanship as well as classroom teaching to appropriate academic standards
• conducting student assessment in accordance with Awarding Body standards
• maintaining appropriate records of teaching and assessment
• maintaining appropriate records of attendance
• provision of educational guidance, counselling and tutorials as required
• attending internal and external meetings as required
• maintaining appropriate liaison with the land based industries
• updating of personal skills and qualifications
• working with the Senior Engineer to help identify opportunities to further develop the academic portfolio to increase student recruitment
• working with the Senior Engineer to help conduct appropriate liaison with land-based industries in south-west Scotland and beyond

This is a full-time fixed-term role for 6 months initially.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Mr Robert Paterson, Senior Engineer, by email at robert.paterson@sruc.ac.uk

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £21,107 - £21,420 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Monogastric Research Centre, Bush Estate Bush near Edinburgh

REF: ACF/AHES/001/22

Closing date: 31 May 2022

A Stock Worker position has arisen within the Poultry Unit of SRUC’s Monogastric Science Research Centre, based in Bush Estate, just outside Edinburgh. Working in the Poultry Unit, the successful applicant will take on a role as a Stock Worker in the husbandry of stock, ensuring animal welfare, data recording, building and equipment maintenance, and additional duties as required by Trial Delivery Manager. Some weekend work will be involved.

The successful applicant will need to be able to work independently and as part of the Trial Delivery Team. Good communication skills and previous experience in animal husbandry are essential in this role. Poultry husbandry experience is highly desirable, and SVQ/NVQ qualifications in poultry or animal husbandry would be advantageous, as would certification in tractor/forklift driving skills. A current clean driving licence is essential for this role.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £32,067 - £37,636 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush near Edinburgh

REF: ACF/AVS/021/21

Closing date: 30 May 2022

This is an opportunity to learn skills and gain experience of programming in a big data environment. If you like data read on.

We work with tens of millions of animal records, pedigrees with over 80 million animals, data files with hundreds of millions of events and spectral data containing over 33 billion rows. The programming strategy required varies according to the task and so the job is to use the appropriate tool and computing tactic to solve the problem in a timely fashion. The successful candidate will work within an integrated group of around 15 comprising programmers and geneticists, 9 of which work within EGENES. Our work is very high pressure, time dependant with tight deadlines but varied and interesting ranging from routine evaluations through to researching new phenotypes predicted from milk mid infra-red spectral (MIR) and developed with Deep Learning. For instance, recently, we succeeded in the use of milk mid-infra red spectral data for Bovine tuberculosis prediction at the industry level and currently going through field trials, and we are looking to implement similar strategies for other complex traits such as feed intake.

We investigate hardware acceleration of compute intensive processes on GPUs and FPGAs and are constantly investigating new and better ways of doing things. We have an institutional relationship with NVIDIA to use machine learning and accelerated computing through GPUs. We use an NVIDIA DGX station with 4 GPUs with 20,000 cores that processes 33 billion spectral data points. Every day is different in EGENES and the team is highly focused on delivering on time every time providing a very supportive and team based work environment.

We are seeking an enthusiastic junior technical programmer who can take a major supporting role in EGENES working closely with the geneticists (Professor Raph Mrode, Dr Samir Id Lahoucine, Professor Mike Coffey) and the programming team to deliver, efficiently and consistently, genetic evaluations of the highest quality. The right approach and attitude is considered the key skill and this post is ideally suited to a recent graduate keen to develop skills in large data handling. It is expected that the candidate will undertake programming and systems engineering to develop or support genetic evaluation methodologies including creating and maintaining databases, imputation strategies with very large datasets, programming strategies to maximise time to delivery, updating/improving existing code and/or strategies, developing emergency data storage and retrieval plans. It will be expected that the candidate should be (or capable of learning quickly) versatile in several programming and scripting languages. We work with dairy and beef cattle, sheep, dairy goats, pigs.

The role requires good communication skills as there will be regular client contact for development and testing purposes to ensure the evaluations meets their specification.

Required Skills:

• a qualification in computing science OR sufficient experience
• excellent numerical and statistical powers
• programming experience and the ability to learn new languages
• good communication ability
• good analytical/problem solving skills
• excellent team player skills
• attention to detail

Desirable Skills:

• SQL Server experience
• FORTRAN
• Powershell and batch Scripting
• knowledge of Containers technology (Docker)
• Linux cluster and SLURM cluster management and job scheduling
• large data handling experience
• knowledge of computer security programs
• genetic evaluation experience

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £50,000 - £53,038 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC King's Buildings, Edinburgh / flexible

REF: CFPS/IDS/005/22

Closing date: 29 May 2022

The Project Manager will be responsible for the definition, documentation and end to end delivery of IT related business change initiatives within SRUC, applying both Agile and Waterfall methodology where appropriate to the delivery. The post holder will be expected to define and manage multiple concurrent IT related projects, to meet identified business needs; achieved through planning, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, time and quality. The post holder will engage with all areas of SRUC to assist with the development of ideas.

The Project Manager:

• defines, documents and carries out projects or sub-projects, alone or with a small team, actively participating in all phases
• agrees project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate. Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensures that own projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded
• identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and ensures regular and accurate communication to stakeholders, consistent with the methods in use (agile, waterfall, etc.)
• ensures quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure. Manages the change control procedure, and ensures that project deliverables are completed, and are signed off
• identifies and monitors benefits against business case objectives. Supports stakeholders to ensure that all plans and deliverables are aligned to the expected benefits
• responsible for ensuring effective business engagement throughout the project lifecycle. Initiates the business implementation plan, including all the activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new technical components and technologies
• supports and assists teams with the scoping and business priority setting for large or complex changes. Identifies the establishment of a baseline on which delivery of a solution can commence. Ensures changes to baseline are properly assessed and approved before implementation
• helps establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the business process. Contributes to evaluating the factors which must be addressed in the delivery of change
• monitors and maintains all required financial records for compliance and audit to all agreed requirements. Collates required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision making
• ensures that all stakeholders adhere to IT strategic management approach and timetables. Collates information and creates reports and insights to support IT strategic management processes
• assists SRUC in developing, and driving the adoption of, a consistent project methodology and toolset

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary:  £21,438 to £25,221 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Edinburgh

Reference: CFPS/HR/063/21

Closing date: 5 June 2022

We have a new opportunity for an experienced Recruitment Co-ordinator to join our busy team based in Edinburgh. In this role you will support the Recruitment Manager and the HR Adviser (Recruitment) in providing an efficient, cost-effective and professional global recruitment service to SRUC that is legally compliant and delivers an excellent customer and candidate experience. In this role you will be:

• consulting with and advising managers on effective sourcing and assessment strategies – including: effective sourcing channel options; ad copy writing; job particulars creation; selection and assessment tools advice
• setting up new vacancies on our applicant management system, advertising on internal and external job boards and publications, managing advert responses, setting up interview schedules, processing right to work documentation, preparing legally compliant offers – including preparation of sponsorship papers and visa process for migrant workers
• working closely with the Recruitment Manager, HRBPs, hiring managers and candidates – assisting with the end-to-end management of vacancies including providing information and progress updates
• responsible for collating recruitment-related metrics which will be reported and analysed on a monthly basis
• responsible for administering the UKVI sponsorship process to ensure SRUC complies with statutory requirements including right to work in the UK checks and the employment of migrant workers through the skilled worker sponsorship process
• managing multiple stakeholders including hiring managers; candidates; publishers; online job-boards; testing providers; UKVI; wider HR team; on-boarding stakeholders

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Type: Permanent / part time (28 hours per week)

Salary:  £24,789 to £28,707 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Edinburgh

Reference: CFPS/HR/009/22

Closing date: 6 June 2022

Applications are invited for this exciting role working in a busy HR Business Support Team. This role would suit an HR Administrator experienced in a generalist HR environment.

In this role you will:

• supervise, direct and oversee work of Business Support team in absence of, or by delegation of Team Leader
• work closely with the Team Leader and Senior Administrator to plan, manage and delegate work.
• act as first point of contact for the HR Business Support Hub, ensuring that customers receive a first class service, ensuring confidentiality and security is maintained at all times
• work collaboratively with HR colleagues to deliver a wide range of administrative support to the business
• accurately process, record and report HR information in accordance with key deadlines
• provide high quality HR transactional services within key performance measures the services include - preparing job offers and contracts, contract changes, onboarding, preparing new starts for payroll, processing leavers, maternity/paternity and parental leave.
• consistently adhere to appropriate regulations, policies and procedures
• resolve enquiries from internal and external customers in a timely manner, personally addressing matters or ensuring an appropriate handover
• provide resilience through collaborative and flexible working across the team to maintain effective and efficient administration systems
• provide “first draft” documentation to support policy development and/or process improvement

To be considered for this role, you should possess proven excellent HR administrative experience in a similar role. You will have good planning and organising skills and be confident working on your own initiative. You will have the proven ability to think through more complex issues and come up with a solution that complies with policy and procedures.  You should also have experience of working in a busy environment with responsibility for multiple tasks on a daily basis, working to tight deadlines and remaining calm under pressure.  Excellent customer service skills combined with excellent communication skills.  Microsoft Office skills are essential and you should be able to work flexibly within the role.

This is a part-time role - 28 hours per week Monday – Friday with some flexibility around work pattern.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £38,287 - £44,783 per annum (under review)

Location: SAC Consulting, Edinburgh Technopole / flexible

REF: CML/CS/013/22

Closing date: 12 June 2022

SAC Consulting, a division of SRUC are currently seeking a Senior Consultant (Ecologist) to join the specialist consulting Environment team. The main purposes of this role are:

1. to provide expert ecological input into public, private and third sector client work carried out by SAC Consulting
2. to lead the development of ecological skills and knowledge of colleagues across SAC Consulting
3. to work with the Consultant (Ecology) to help establish closer working relationships between colleagues in SAC Consulting and SRUC in the delivery of ecological projects.

The job holder will work closely with colleagues from across the Food & Footprint business area (encompassing the Environment Team, the Forestry & Woodlands Team, and Food & Enterprise Team) and the wider business (including regionally focussed Conservation Consultants and key researchers and teaching colleagues in the wider SRUC). They will lead this work, inspiring through their knowledge, values and ways of working. They will drive an increase in the amount of ecological work done by SAC Consulting, both directly by them and their wider team, but also by colleagues across the business. They will be instrumental in helping SAC Consulting become an organisation that sees ecology as a fundamental part of what it does.

Key elements of the role will include: national public sector natural capital projects; peatland restoration; development of tailored guidance for colleagues and land managers; environmental impact assessment related work for infrastructure projects; policy support for research and consulting colleagues and public sector clients; and internal training of conservation and general consultancy colleagues; providing specialist input to tenders and marketing material to highlight SAC Consulting’s capabilities relating to ecology.

Reporting to the Principal Consultant (Head of Environment Team), the job-holder will line manage one Consultant (Ecology) and will indirectly guide and oversee (although not line manage) the work of four conservation consultants. As the lead ecological expert within SAC Consulting, the jobholder will significantly influence the quality of work that SAC Consulting undertakes. In time, as more work develops in this area, it is expected that the jobholder will line manage a larger number of consultant ecologists.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary: £33,100 - £37,514 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC King's Buildings, Edinburgh

REF: CFPS/FIN/032/21

Closing date: 22 May 2022

A new position has arisen for a Finance Analyst to join the expanding Finance team based in Edinburgh. The main purpose of this role is to support the Finance Team in the management and forecasting of financial data for a specific area within SRUC – People Costs e.g., Pay and Grading.

Scope of Job:

• Monthly Management Accounts – Salary & associated costs
• Annual Division Budget
• Divisional Support
• Monthly and Year End Project Reconciliations
• Identifying Division month end and year end Accruals and Prepayments

Qualifications:

As a minimum, you should be a part qualified accountant / studying for professional accounting examinations.

Experience:

You should possess proven experience management accounting, excellent Microsoft Office and mainframe skills and experience of project accounting.

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Type: Permanent / full time

Salary:   £32,300 - £37,999 per annum (under review)

Location: SRUC Edinburgh / flexible

Reference: ASWF/FO/022/21

Closing date: 5 June 2022

Working closely with the Vice Principal, Skills and Lifelong Learning and the Training and Work-Based Learning Lead, you will engage pro-actively with sector stakeholders, potential employers, schools, SRUC colleagues and government agencies. You will co-ordinate SRUC’s development, academic approval and delivery of higher-level apprenticeships, CPD and work-based learning and assessments.

You will contribute to planning activity regarding changing service needs and operation of SRUC’s apprenticeship and work-based learning programmes. You will also act as a key point of contact within SRUC for requests and queries relating to apprenticeships, CPD and work-based learning.

There may be an opportunity to deliver training and assessment, depending on the successful candidate experience and subject expertise.

In this role, it will be your responsibility:

• to co-ordinate SRUC’s development, academic approval and delivery of higher-level apprenticeships, CPD and work-based learning and assessment, covering a range of funding streams including Apprenticeships, skills development funding and other work place opportunities
• there may be an opportunity to deliver training and assessment, depending on the successful candidate experience and subject expertise
• to contribute to the development of high-quality apprenticeship delivery, employer engagement, CPD and work-based learning and assessment - maximising benefits to customers and SRUC, and meeting the needs of apprentices, employers, government agencies and in line with government skills development policies
• to act as key point of contact within SRUC for queries relating to higher level apprenticeships, CPD and work-based learning, both internally and from external stakeholders including sector stakeholders, local authorities, employers, funding agencies and both current and potential partner organisations
• to work with the Vice Principal, Skills and Lifelong Learning and the Training and Work-Based Learning Lead in developing new business opportunities relating to higher level apprenticeships, CPD and work-based learning within SRUC, and maintaining existing business and customer relationships, in order to ensure recruitment of sufficient candidates and meet clear income generation targets
• to liaise with academic departments for staff resource to support development, approvals process and delivery of higher-level apprenticeships, work-based learning and CPD (e.g. lecturers, trainers, assessors, colleagues within Registry and SRUC’s Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT))
• to carry out relevant administrative duties - including maintenance of up-to-date records of training provided, assessment and of customers, and effective use of a CRM system
• to provide timely management reports
• to liaise with Marketing, Digital and Communications in relation to marketing support.
• to assist the Vice Principal, Skills and Lifelong Learning and the Training and Work-Based Learning Lead in developing and implementing centralised systems, policies and processes
• to ensure compliance with, and maximisation of opportunities for funding from, relevant training and education authorities
• to develop and maintain a strong knowledge of the apprenticeship, skills and CPD needs relevant to the six natural economy subsectors (agriculture, forestry, tourism, food and drink, fishing and aquaculture, and energy including renewables)
• to participate in apprentice, work-based learning and CPD recruitment activities (e.g. open days) for SRUC
• to develop and encourage implementation of robust educational pathways and work with SRUC colleagues to communicate the range of learner journeys to stakeholders and prospective apprentices
• to work in partnership with Skills and Work-Based Learning colleagues across SRUC.
• to represent Skills and Work-Based Learning colleagues as and when required

Further information

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