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Information Scientist

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£25,000 - £30,000
Surrey
LH/15458

An Information Scientist is required to join a leading Food & Drink advisory business based in Redhill, Surrey.

 

Your job purpose is to provide members and clients with excellent services in the area of information provision.

 

The Information Scientist helps the organisation and its client with access to relevant, timely and accurate information using the latest formats and technologies. This is essential in maintaining their current services and in helping to build and develop their technical knowledge base.

 

Salary: £25,000 - £30,000

 

Hours: 9:00 – 17:00

 

Benefits: 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, stakeholder pension, Health Insurance, Sick pay, parking, subsidised restaurant/vending machines.

 

What will your working week be like?

 

Our client, is currently looking to recruit an Information Scientist to provide members and clients with excellent services in the area of information provision. Duties will include:

  • To manage, co-ordinate and develop existing information subscription services and member databases
  • Demonstrate the value of the services to the clients including monitoring service utilisation and running a programme of Webex demonstrations and/or visits to client’s sites, including extracting client feedback
  • To support in the development of the digital content delivery strategy
  • To support the rest of the department and business including answering enquires, proposal development, research and literature searching, development and implementation of document & knowledge management strategies, and sourcing and application of external business intelligence

 

Qualifications and competencies required for this role:

  • Graduate or Postgraduate level qualification(s) in Information Science accredited by CILIP, or related subjects
  • Excellent awareness of current information science practice and use of the latest technologies in providing information in the appropriate formats.
  • Excellent understanding and/or practical experience of database, search and content management systems
  • Excellent all-round IT skills, ideally with SharePoint site management experience
  • Ability to search, disseminate and ideally summarise technical information
  • Well-developed communication skills - upwards, downwards and outwards
  • Skilled report writing and presentation skills
  • Ideally experience of providing, summarising and extracting business information including market research information and ability to present these in different formats
  • Ideally experience of information provision in a commercial or a membership-based organisation
  • Good communicator with proven client skills

 

Skills: science, scientist, subscriptions, information science, CILIP, report writing, research, analysis.

 

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