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Front-end Web Developer and UX Designer (GR6)

Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
£27,025 - £32,236, Ref: 15261
Based in Milton Keynes
Temporary contract up to 20 months
Application closed on: Friday 23 November 2018.

The team at The Open University runs the world's largest aggregator of research papers called CORE (core.ac.uk), with about 1.5 million monthly active users, and a set of projects promoting principles of Open Science, such as FOSTER (fosteropenscience.eu). CORE provides free access to millions of Open Access research papers as well as a number of information services for researchers, organisations and businesses. These include services enabling text & data mining, recommender systems, content management services for libraries as well as analytical services to support business intelligence for research.

You will work as part of a team of developer and research within the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University, on improving the front-end UI/UX experience of CORE users. Additionally, you will be involved in improving our e-learning platform delivering training materials and courses on Open Science.

To apply, please fill the application form below and also include a Covering Letter (a maximum of 2,500 words) and CV

Download the Application for Employment Form (Short Version)

Download the Application for Employment (Accessible/Short Version)

Then email it to resourcing-hub@open.ac.uk quoting the job reference number '.15261.'.

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