We seek an enthusiastic and motivated research administrator to join WEAVR, a £5.8m 2 year R&D project aiming to demonstrate how immersive and data-driven technologies can radically transform audience experiences surrounding esports. The project seeks to re-imagine the way audiences engage with the genre through hyper-personalised stories, interactive content, data-driven narratives and cross-reality experiences that seamlessly stretch across devices, technologies, and spaces. The project consortium includes key industry stakeholders and leading innovators across esports, VR, XR, virtual studio technology, 360 degree video and big data analytics, including ESL, the world's leading esports company.

The project will be carried out by a dedicated team of over 50 people, including software developers, 2D & 3D artists, content producers, designers, market analysts, business developers, as well as four key researchers located at the University of York, which will be leading on the key innovation areas of the project. The York-based project team will be situated at Digital Creativity Labs (DC Labs), a world centre of excellence for impact-driven research in digital creativity, focusing on digital games, interactive media and the rich space in which they converge. You will work in the York-based team alongside developers and researchers, closely collaborate with consortium members across the UK.

You will be an experienced administrator, working alongside the R&D Director and Co-Is to provide them with administrative support as well as supporting the York-based team comprising five researchers and two software developers. Given the cross-departmental nature of Weavr, you should be keen to develop an understanding of the requirements of different departments. The role will also liaise with administrators at the consortium partners, which include five companies.

You will bring a good understanding of University and department level systems and reporting requirements and, given the cross-departmental nature of the DC Hub, be keen to develop an understanding of the requirements of other departments. They will also liaise with administrators at the consortium partners. Reporting directly to the R&D Director, you will bring experience in managing and monitoring finances against a budget and capturing project performance information. You will bring strong networking and communication skills, and with experience in event delivery, needed to engage with our expanding network of partners and audience.

WEAVR is all about collaboration, and above all we are looking for a positive, creative and inspiring person that will work with the team to ensure that the project provides an interesting and professional environment to work in, and realises the vision of transforming live sports entertainment.

Informal enquiries about this post may be directed to the email address linked below.

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