Community Engagement Manager

Role Description

Department

The Smart Data Donation Service (SDDS) is a new large-scale piece of research infrastructure funded by Smart Data Research UK’s Data Services Call. The SDDS combines extensive research facilitation with construction of technical infrastructure at scale at the University of York. The SDDS is about making people’s data rights work for them.  Corporations hold vast amounts of behavioural data about citizens, but this data is often inaccessible  either to the individuals who generated it, or to independent researchers who need it to understand the impacts of online environments. However, under GDPR, individuals have the right to data portability: If they wish, they can obtain a copy of their personal data from a corporation - they could then share this data with the research community. This ‘data donation’ paradigm is at the heart of the SDDS. It will break deadlocks in understanding domains like gaming and social media by enabling individuals to exercise their right to data portability en-masse, crowdsourcing massive-scale data donations at a national scale.

Further information about the SDDS can be found at https://sdds.org.uk.

Role

We are looking for an experienced, adaptable, and passionate community engagement manager with experience of engaging, involving and collaborating with the public, and extensive knowledge of public involvement, engagement and co-production methods, to ensure the success of this incredible project. This role is a unique opportunity: a successful applicant will help to drive profound societal change at a key juncture in online safety and digital wellbeing; and will  support large-scale team science, tapping into an inclusive and vibrant new research institution to enact this vision.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

• Delivering external engagement: Work with the SDDS management team and Involvement@York’s team to develop and implement the project’s public involvement and engagement strategy. Be the 'go to person' for managing all aspects of the project’s public involvement activity (with support and guidance from I@Y).
• Operational management: Support the Service Manager in the execution of administrative tasks underpinning the effective operation of the SDDS, including meeting and event planning, external stakeholder engagement, involvement and collaboration, project monitoring and financial reporting;
• Partnership management: Support and facilitate effective co-production and partnership working between the public contributors and the research team, providing a friendly, supportive and point of contact for all public contributors throughout;
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Help develop and implement a service-wide strategy for Equality Diversity and Inclusion as part of the overall public involvement and engagement strategy

Interview date: TBC

For informal enquiries: please contact Faye Chivers on faye.chivers@york.ac.uk

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive  – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork