Applications are invited for a temporary 5-year full time Technical Officer vacancy within the UCD School of Psychology.

The UCD School of Psychology

UCD is a dynamic research-intensive university that is at the forefront of research and teaching activities across a wide range of disciplines. The UCD School of Psychology is a national provider of professionally accredited programmes in psychology and internationally recognised for its contribution to research. Details of our research activities are available at https://www.ucd.ie/psychology/research/ and the School has identified the following strategic research themes:

• Affective, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Group Processes and Social Inclusion
• Psychological Health, Wellbeing and Resilience

The Position

The successful applicant will assist with providing a first-class technical service for staff/students as part of the School's IT Team. The context is a varied technical infrastructure with a support focus and the role involves considerable interaction with staff, researchers, and students. This position requires a broad range of technical skills with a keen interest in applying technology in education.

The successful candidate will:

• Provide training relating to educational and research technologies such as eye tracking, virtual reality (VR), electroencephalogram (EEG), and online survey/data collection platforms, to staff and postgraduate students/researchers.
• Provide support for research using specialised equipment including EEG (ANT- eego MyLab 128ch & Biosemi 64ch), Neuronavigational System (visor2), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation system (TMS)(Magventure MagPro), Eye tracking (Eyelink & Tobii) & VR (Vive & Oculus). 
• Provide support with bespoke software program development for researchers by programming in such environments as e-prime, psychopy, pavlovia, presentation, python/java/c++, including app development using C# or android studio. 
• Provide support for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including supporting the development of modules and materials for training students in technical aspects of psychology research.

95 Technical Officer Salary scale: 42,127- 55,671 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines

Closing date: 17:00hrs (local Irish time) on 9th of February 2023.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 17:00hrs (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications. UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/.