Database Administrator & Content Management Analyst (Linux)

The IT Business Systems Team has an opportunity for a database administrator with strong Linux shell scripting skills, who will ideally bring their experience managing and processing large datasets in a database environment to the team. The postholder will report to the team leader for the IT Business Systems Operations Team. The role will be responsible for the data storage, migration and management of the currently digitised data and the vast amount of new data arising from the digitisation project. You will work closely with external suppliers, the Lead Developer in the Digital Revolution Team and the Digitisation Data Quality officers, as well as with the other members of the IT Business Systems Team and colleagues in the wider IT Directorate.

RBG Kew are currently recruiting staff to work on an exciting and unique project to digitise Kew’s 8.5 million plant and fungal specimens and create a complete catalogue of our internationally significant collections, making specimen records and images freely available online and accessible to researchers across the globe.

The outcome of this project will provide a unique, world-leading resource making accessible data from more than 260 years of scientific exploration, placing them at the centre of efforts to combat urgent global challenges such as habitat degradation, climate change and human health.

In addition, RBG Kew are recruiting staff to support the implementation of a new collections management system to ensure efficient and effective integrated management of the Science and Living Collections and the data describing them.

The Integrated Collections Management System will allow more efficient tracking of the use of specimens to meet legislative requirements concerning access to genetic resources and benefit sharing, including the Nagoya Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity and plant health legislation.

This role is based at Kew with the option of regular home working, subject to operational requirements.

The salary will be £34,000 – £36,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience (+ £4k market supplement, reviewed annually).