Research Developer (Art of Making; Making of Charlemagne's Europe; Bre

Research Developer (Art of Making; Making of Charlemagne's Europe; Breaking of Britain)
Digital Humanities - R6/AAV/726/12-JM

The Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London is looking for a highly motivated and technically sophisticated individual to join the research and development team. The position will involve Datamodelling and analysis, and the design and development of both editorial and administrative tools, and public facing web applications, across three research projects in the department's portfolio: The Art of Making, The Making of Charlemagne's Europe, and the Breaking of Britain.

The post is located in the Department of Digital Humanities. The Department is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences. It is in the School of Arts and Humanities, and undertakes research on a collaborative basis across discipline, institutional and national boundaries: it has collaborative relationships across King's College and with a large number of institutions and bodies in the UK and internationally.

A high level of competence in client side Scripting (in both pure JavaScript and using frameworks such as JQuery) is required, including significant experience with AJAX. A complementary working knowledge of progressive enhancement techniques and standards-compliant HTML5/XHTML and CSS would also be highly advantageous. Application development experience including the creation, manipulation and presentation of structured data with a range of RDB-related and web-delivery standards and technologies (SQL, SPARQL, Django/Python) is essential. Some degree of familiarity with other common Digital Humanities technologies and methodologies (for example ontologies or text processing techniques), and general experience in the modelling of humanities data would be desirable.

In addition you will need to have an understanding of how research is conducted in the humanities and social sciences and you will be expected to make a contribution to the departmental research profile. The successful candidate will need to be able to work effectively as part of a team, as well as independently. The successful candidate should have good communication skills and the ability to document their work in clear written English.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 13th September 2012

Interviews will be held w/c 17 September 2012.

Equality of opportunity is College policy.

The appointment will be made within the Grade 6 scale, currently £31,020 to £ 37,012 per annum plus £ 2,323 per annum London Allowance.

One Year Fixed Term Appointment

For an informal discussion of the post please contact Paul Vetch.

Further details and application packs are available on the College's website. All correspondence should clearly state the job title and reference number R6/AAV/726/12-JM. If you have any queries please contact your Recruitment Co-ordinator