Things I Learned from Looking at 500 Research Computing Manager Jobs over 10 Months

This resource first appeared in issue #46 on 16 Oct 2020 and has tags Managing Your Career: Other

Things I Learned from Looking at 500 Research Computing Manager Jobs over 10 Months - Jonathan Dursi (me)

As you know, the newsletter has always had a section on job postings for leads and managers of research computing teams, and since June I’ve also been keeping them on a job board. We’ve now hit 500 jobs that were posted at one time or another, so I thought I’d summarize the patterns I’ve seen:

There are a lot of jobs out there for people managing research computing teams.
There are certainly many more I’m missing.
Research computing teams are broadening, and so is the need for managers.
Research data management is increasingly employable.
“Traditional” research computing team management jobs remain, and they take forever to fill.
Despite the talk of RSE units, many research computing jobs within academic institutions are still lone outposts, embedded in a particular project.