Programme Manager – Professional Development
Grade UE08 – £48,350 - £59,421
The Data Lab / College of Science and Engineering
Contract Type - Fixed Term to 31st March 2025 (open to secondment agreement for internal candidates)
Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week
The Opportunity:
The Data Lab is Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI and was founded in 2014 as part of Scotland’s Innovation Centres programme. Through hubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, we foster innovation through collaboration, build skills and grow talent, and champion Scotland’s data and AI community.
The Programme Manager will lead provision of The Data Lab’s Professional Development programme, which currently includes Online Learning, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), data Skills for work, and Executive and Leadership Development. Commencing a new phase of funding the Programme Lead will be responsible for leading a review of this portfolio to identify areas for growth and opportunities for development.
The Data Lab will be one of four centres funded by SFC as Innovation Infrastructure for Scotland, the other centres are: Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), Digital Health Institute (DHI) and Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBIOIC)
The Mission & Challenge
Our aim is to turn Scotland into a thriving, data-driven economy by working and partnering across the whole Scottish tech ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to help us drive responsible and ethical innovation in data and AI for the good of Scotland and beyond.