Research Associate

Job Description

• One of Australia’s leading research & teaching universities
• Vibrant campus life with a strong sense of community & inclusion
• Enjoy a career that makes a difference by collaborating & learning from the best

At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work.

The School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences is a large, collaborative and multi-disciplinary school in the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales with over 170 academic, research and professional staff. In 2025, the school obtained $22M in research funding, produced over 800 scientific publications and is frequently rated among the top schools across UNSW in student experience surveys. The School incorporates a broad range of disciplines, enabling comprehensive education and research in the broad fields of Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Climate Science, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Marine Science and Oceanography.

The Research Associate will contribute to research at the interface between ecological sciences and environmental data science and assists in the development and refinement of reproducible workflows for ecosystem-specific and fit-for-purpose indicators. This role is specifically required to contribute to the ARDC funded Ecosystem Indicators Workflows project and will conduct research in collaboration with a core team led by the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science and with collaborations in other UNSW centres, and external partners in academia, industry and other sectors.

Within the project, the Research Associate will be responsible for the completion of work packages related to development of analytical workflows following FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible), and development of software tools or packages, and will contribute to other work packages related to refinement of research vocabularies, auditing datasets, documenting platform capabilities and performance, and building a community of practice.

THIS ROLE IS LOCATED IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.