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Trainee Informatics Assistant (summer position)

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  • Posted By: UNEP - WCMC
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  • Date Posted: 4th Jul 2008
  • Salary: £ Excellent £
  • Location: Cambridge
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  • Views Since Posting: 29
  • Full Description:

    We are looking for:
    • A keen individual who is either studying towards or has finished studying an A-Level (or something similar) in IT/ Computing
    • Someone who is eager to develop their IT skills and knowledge.

    As a Trainee Informatics Assistant you will be involved in:
    • Creating a database tool to store and retrieve our data licences
    • Populating the database with the data
    • Cataloguing a collection of data and software CD’s
    • Performing an inventory of the Centre’s hardware, and the software installed on it.
    • Transferring data off old UNIX backup tapes.
    • Creating a GIS dataset that documents hardcopy map holdings
    • Scanning in map holdings
    • Possibly assisting the Informatics team with other projects
    • This position is initially for a 6-week period, which could potentially be extended.

    What we do:
    The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK, is the specialist biodiversity information and assessment centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and is run cooperatively with WCMC 2000, a UK charity. The Centre’s mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making.

    Benefits:
    • Excellent salary and benefits
    • Tea and cakes every Wednesday.

    So, if this is the opportunity you have been looking for then please feel free to apply by sending your CV (including references) together with a cover letter by clicking “apply for this job” below

    Applications are invited from all nationalities, and prospective candidates should note that this is not a UN post.

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