The Institute of Cancer Research
Data Curator
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Salary: Salary range £31,445 - £33,600 per annum. Commencement on the salary range is subject to comparable skills and experience.
Duration of Contract: Fixed Term for 1 year
Hours per week: 35 hours per week (Full Time)
Location: Sutton, Surrey
Closing Date: 16 August 2026
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close the advert before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. Therefore, we advise that you to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Applications may be reviewed on application and not the closing of the role.
Job Details
Are you an experienced data scientist looking for a new challenge? Are you motivated by the opportunity to contribute to high-quality trials of cancer treatments? Would you like to work in a supportive, academic environment? The Institute of Cancer Research Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit (ICR-CTSU), based in Sutton, would like to appoint a data curator to provide support to data curation and management activities across its portfolio of national and international phase II/ III multicentre cancer trials and biological rich clinical studies.
Key Requirements
- Together with a life science/health/IT degree or equivalent, you have previous data management experience within a clinical trials unit, CRO or pharmaceutical company.
- You will have a thorough working knowledge of clinical and biological data management and electronic data capture systems.
- You have knowledge of SQL and NoSQL (graph-based) databases/structures and are comfortable handling different types of omics data.
- You have the excellent communication skills necessary to liaise with multi-disciplinary team members across multiple studies and would be happy to work individually as well as part of a wider team.
- You are innovative and able to understand interactions between multimodal data types, implement quality data management systems and procedures, deliver complete and correct data, and facilitate efficient data centralisation and management.
- Experiences in UNIX/LINUX operating system, Python and R programming languages are desired.
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Department/Directorate Information
ICR-CTSU manages an exciting portfolio of national and international cancer clinical trials across all phases. You will contribute to the curation, engineering and management of multimodal data from clinical trials. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team on supporting the development, organisation and oversight of data structures within the ICR-CTSU, in collaboration with external organisations.
When applying please provide a supporting statement as to why you are applying for this position and detail your relevant experience. Together with your CV, please include details of your current salary and the names and addresses of two referees.
This is an office-based role. Requests for hybrid working (splitting time between our Sutton site and home) may be considered following successful completion of key training and only if the role allows. Flexible working options may be considered.
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The Institute of Cancer Research, London, is one of the world's most influential cancer research institutes, with an outstanding record of achievement dating back more than 100 years. Further information about working at the ICR can be found here.
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