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Closed CLOSING DATE: 28/02/2015

The Digital Health & Care Institute

Project Administrator

Undergraduate Degree

Closing Date:: 28/02/2015
Skill:: Science and environment
Region:: Lanarkshire
Salary: £6.50 p/hour
Length:: 12 weeks
Ref code: IMYDTVNSJS

Placement summary

The Digital Health & Care Institute is a publicly funded Innovation Centre, which stimulates new health & care innovations with a focus on digital technologies. The successful applicant will experience work within a project management office that oversees the design, prototyping and testing of these new technologies, within a fantastic team. Specifically, the role will include supporting a handful of projects that will enter our ‘living laboratory’ – which is where we simulate real life environments for companies to test out new technology. Apply now!

Job description

Project Description

The DHI takes projects from early idea stages all the way through to real, working technologies. This placement will focus primarily on the ‘bit in the middle’ where we have an early stage technology that needs to be evaluated in a simulated environment (picture a research facility with fully equipped GP offices, hospital rooms, etc.). This might include consumer health using wearable devices, such as the Fitbit or Apple Watch, or it might be more focused on optimising the way our health & care services are run – for example by improving how ambulances work or creating devices that allow our GPs give us a check-ups that normally require visits to hospital.

The facility will be brand new when the placement begins. A group of experts will be setup to plan how this space will be used and then to bring technologies in for our first simulations. This advertised role will involve supporting this group – offering administrative support to these experts to make sure their plans are carried out.

The core role will be to act as integral support for this group, arranging meetings, preparing meeting papers and minutes and then keeping track of the actions required to progress projects in the research facility. The successful applicant will also be asked to carry out some basic research to support the group. This will include communicating via email and phone with a large number of our project partners, to determine what their needs are with regards to this research facility. This would then be collated into a report that the expert group would use to but relevant equipment and software to meet these broad needs.

Finally, the student will offer general support to the DHI Programme Manager (their line manager). This will include a variety of tasks to help improve the communication of this expert group with the rest of the organisation. Most of these flexible duties will involve entry level project management tasks.

All in all, this is an amazing chance to be part of a brand new facility, learn the ropes, and gain some paid experience within a team of experts in this field.

Qualifications

This placement is part of Skills Development Scotland’s ‘Life Sciences CV Competition’. Please ensure that you have read all of the following information before submitting an application: http://bit.ly/LifeSciencesComp. These placements are only open to undergraduate students in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year, who are studying a Life Science Degree in Scotland.

Skills / Experience

Essential Skills

High level of IT literacy – both hardware and software – while the role is office based the research facility the role supports will be highly technology dependent. This can either be through a formal qualification or just a natural aptitude and energy for technology.
Good attention to detail and good communications skills – the majority of the time will be spent meeting with people and improving communication.

Desirable Skills

Experience of supporting a technology testing environment (either in a technical capacity or in an administrative role)
Experience of needs analysis or gap analysis work.

Benefits

Company benefits

The DHI interacts with an amazing breadth of exciting people and organisations, potentially kick starting a career in technology innovation through either and Academic, Business or Civic route. Some training opportunities will arise around entry level project management, engagement, workshop facilitation and product design.

Placement benefits

The greatest benefit to the applicant will be exposure to literally dozens of innovative, product development oriented businesses as well as their public sector clients and subject matter experts from some of the world’s greatest Universities. As part of the ScotGrad Graduate Placement Programme, the candidate will benefit from support from the ScotGrad Team and may have access to training.

Additional information

Location: Maxim Park, Motherwell

Planned interview date: TBC

Preferred start date: July/August 2015