We’re Hiring!

Posted March 6, 2008

Just a heads up to say that we’re on the look out for GIS staff to work in Oxford Archaeology’s northern office in Lancaster.

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Whilst primarily we’re after staff for some large-scale projects that we have coming up over the next year, we are also looking for people who can help us work on programming applications, and help with develop protocols and work-flows for getting GIS out to all of our staff.

For the right person, this could be a really cool and exciting job. You’ll need to be aware of issues like data standards and generally familiar with the concept of GIS and Databases, but we don’t necessarily require that you’re qualified as an arcgis-ninja or anything like that, as we will endeavour to train you up in the range of packages that we use. If you’re into open source, and open data, then that’s a bonus.

If you’re interested, and you want an informal chat about it, then let me know in the comments, else you’ll find the information here. The closing date for applications is 21st March 2008. I look forward to hearing from you!

6 Comments so far

  1. Geotags.org on March 6th, 2008

    We’re Hiring!…

    [Source: Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK] quoted: You’ll need to be aware of issues like data standards and generally familiar with the concept of GIS and Databases, but we don’t necessarily require that you’re qualified as a…

  2. Kristian on March 6th, 2008

    Sounds interesting, but “competitive salary”? I realize there’s probably not much to be made in archaeology, but minimum wage here is just shy of £20k pa.

  3. admin on March 7th, 2008

    Hi Kristian,

    I don’t know how much you know about the wages for archaeology in the UK, but the wage we’re offering is about average for the level of responsibility the job entails. We all know that sucks, which is why so many archaeology graduates are leaving the industry. In an ideal world we would pay more, but then we would be priced out of the market place.

    What I can say is that in Lancaster, that wage will allow you to buy a house. I know, because I have. Oxford also offer one of the best pension deals available to archaeologists in the UK.

    Hope that clears things up,and thanks for popping buy!

    Jo

  4. Valentina on March 7th, 2008

    Hi,
    please could you tell me how long is the contract for?

  5. admin on March 7th, 2008

    Hi Valentina,

    We tend to employ people on a 3-month probationary period, but assuming they turn out to be OK then it’s an open-ended contract.

    Cheers

    Jo

  6. Jason on March 7th, 2008

    Hi. I am doing a PhD at University of Liverpool in archaeology, working on landscape anaysis in the Southern Levant. I have been working with GRASS and C /Qt to develop a software application to assist in my research. (there is an upcoming article in the OSGeo Journal Vol.4). Would love an informal chat with you :-)
    Jason

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