Job ID: 1076

Closing Date: 1st July 2025

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Overview

Data Connect and the Secure Data Services are joint services within the Research and Innovation IT team. Together they support and enable researchers in getting access to NHS and social care data safely and securely for academic research projects. They are strategically important services in the University that enable research that will directly impact on the quality and length of people’s lives.

The University and its partners have been awarded funding by DARE UK to develop and deliver the mechanisms for federated governance for using NHS data in research across the Yorkshire and Humber region. The PANORAMA project will involve the adoption of the SATRE framework, creating and maintaining a shared repository of governance standards, documents and best practice.

The University of Sheffield is also leading on the Information Governance Interest Group and will create and maintain repositories of governance organisations, legal and ethical frameworks and other policies, paving the way for shared best practice across the UK, and help coordinate Public Involvement and Engagement (PIE) activities, including the organising of a UK-wide conference for the TRE Community in September 2025.

The Health Information Governance Officer will be instrumental in coordinating standard architectures and federated processes for the safe use of health data in research across the north of England. It will make a significant difference to enabling research that will impact the lives of people across the region. These projects will have a national profile.

The role requires an enthusiastic, motivated graduate in a health or related field who is interested in information governance and trusted research environments. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in supporting health and social science research in secure computing environments, and will make a significant contribution in advancing secure data infrastructure and federation across the UK.

Main duties and responsibilities

The primary responsibilities of this role are to support the delivery of a federated governance approach across the PANORAMA project, and to support the creation and maintenance of information governance resources for the UK TRE Community Information Governance Group. You will receive support from peers, the Yorkshire & Humber SDE Information Governance Manager (based at Sheffield), the Secure Data Services Research Data Manager, and core TREvolution team and the IG Interest Group Co-chairs to ensure success. The duties of the role are:

• Undertaking the SATRE self-assessment for the University of Sheffield Secure Data Services and Yorkshire & Humber Secure Data Environment.
• Undertake an equivalency exercise of the SATRE self-assessment across (and in collaboration with) the other two northern SDEs.
• Support the Yorkshire & Humber Information Governance Manager (based at Sheffield) to deliver a federated approach to information governance across the PANORAMA project partners.
• Participate in Communities of Practice across the DARE UK TREvolution and Early Adopter programme, sharing experiences and good practices, and reporting back on wider conversations to the Principal Investigator.
• Support the creation and maintenance of a central repository of Information Governance groups, policies and guidance relevant to TREs across the UK, and creating an index of resources.
• Support the Information Governance Interest Group Co-chairs in organising monthly meetings with members.
• Support the IG Interest Group Co-chairs in organising PIE activities.
  Support the organisation and delivery of a UK TRE Community annual conference.
• Providing, with support from others, communications on the project  via the website, social media and other channels.
• Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post.

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

We are a research university with a global reputation for excellence. Our ideas and expertise change the world for the better, making a real difference to society. We know that when people come together with different views, approaches and insights it can lead to richer, more creative and innovative teaching and research and the highest levels of student experience. Our University Vision (www.sheffield.ac.uk/vision) outlines our commitment to building a diverse community of staff and students that recognises and values the abilities, backgrounds, beliefs and ways of living for everyone.