Senior Research Co-Ordinator Software Engineer INFANT Research Centre

3 Years, Specific Purpose, Whole-Time Post

Position Summary

The INFANT Centre is leading the ELEVATE Programme which is a 5-year programme focused on the prevention, early detection, and treatment of brain injury and cerebral palsy (CP) in infants. The ELEVATE Programme has been jointly funded by Research Ireland and the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. An integrated research database and register for people that suffer from CP will be developed as part of the programme. Families of children with CP cite access to accurate and individualised information as a barrier to participating in the latest research trials and obtaining cutting-edge healthcare information. When registers have been implemented in other countries, they have led to massive reductions in chronic pain and invasive surgeries to manage that pain in children with CP. There is a well-defined foundational dataset at the core of CP Registers that is well understood that will be built on.

The register will integrate with hospital electronic health record systems and will also integrate with a research database that collates data from clinical studies. A data manager and data analyst will be part of the team and will help understand and access this data.

The software engineer will have the responsibility for the design and implementation of the register. They may need to apply themselves to different technologies and domains – there is the opportunity to get experience in a wide range of interesting tools.

There is a great opportunity to evolve sound development practices such as configuration control and continuous integration. A register manager and principal investigator will work with multiple stakeholders to identify and prioritise their requirements during the lifetime of the project. The software engineer will be able to support this work with incremental development that allows stakeholders to visualise solutions.

The successful candidate will have a can-do attitude and will be prepared to support other research projects within the INFANT Centre.

Project Title: ELEVATE

Post Duration: 3 Years, Whole-Time post

Salary: €77,500 gross p.a. Personal Rate

For an information package including further details of the post see https://ore.ucc.ie/

Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Tom Meade, INFANT Research Centre Email: tmeade@ucc.ie

Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal https://ore.ucc.ie/ Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to recruitment@ucc.ie quoting the job-title and project name.

Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Monday 28th of April 2025

No late applications will be accepted.

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent on University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector.

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