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Call-out for Unity VR Developers / Unity VFX Artists for an Immersive VR Experience titled ”Network”.

“Network” looks at the ways in which trees communicate underground through a vast fungal network. An artistic, immersive VR experience, it allows the player to inhabit an entirely different perspective, one which explores the interconnectedness of nature, the universe, and of us.

The project is funded via the StoryFutures Academy, and will end up as a playable experience in the Playstore, and be sent to VR and animation festivals around the world. The team consists of recent NFTS graduates, who are all working on a volunteer basis, so as to see as much of the budget in the game, and to pay our collaborators.

We are currently looking for a Unity VR Developer and a Unity VFX Artist (or someone who can do both) to board the project.

Both are at-home-positions, and would require own home set-ups. Experience is required.

Unity VR Developer:

The Unity VR Developer will be expected to take lead on the development and coding of the prototype, beta and alpha version of the game. This will be done, with the aid of our two Game Designers, Guy Sargent and Kamal Shaddad, who will be overseeing the process and help the developer with the build, a few hours a week.

Contract term: From start May-late July, with the delivery of a prototype by end of May and the final product by end of July. Hours can be flexible and part-time.

Fee: Flat fee of £4.000 with a bit of room for negotiation.

Unity VFX Artist   

The Unity VFX Artist needs to be skilled in particle effects, have an understanding of dynamics, and be able to work within Unity. This will be done, with the aid of our two Game Designers, Guy Sargent and Kamal Shaddad, and our Art Director Leto Meade, who will be part of creating the environment of the game and help see it through to implementation.

Contract term: From late May-late July. Hours can be flexible and part-time.

Fee: Flat fee of £3.000 with a bit of room for negotiation.

If we were to find someone to do both, we’d of course be happy to negotiate a decent fee covering both.

We hope we have caught your interest.

Please contact producer Michelle Brøndum at michellebrondum@gmail.com for further information or any questions.

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Junior BI Analyst Opportunity with Harrison Spinks

Who are Harrison Spinks?

We are an award-winning, innovative and rapidly expanding business just 2 miles south of Leeds city centre. A privately owned family business that is very proud of the high-quality products and strong brand heritage we have built. The company is highly vertically integrated from drawing its own wire, blending our own fibre and even owning a 300-acre farm to rear sheep and grow fibres for our natural filling’s blends. Come and join our team and be a part of our success story!

We are recruiting for a motivated team member to join our BI team. Business intelligence is a rapidly expanding area for Harrison Spinks, the role will continue to evolve and grow with the company. There is plenty of scope to challenge new and existing business processes and strengthen how we deliver information across the company. Training will be provided giving you the opportunity to expand your skillset within a supportive environment.

Job title: Junior BI Analyst
Location: Leeds/Remote
Reports to: BI Manager
Travel: Occasional but limited
Reports in: None
Key Stakeholders: Leadership Team, Head of Finance, All Departments
Job Objectives:
• Work closely with the BI Lead to support and develop new and existing internal reporting solutions, alongside a team of IT specialists.
• Help to review, assess and make improvements to the internal reporting systems and visualisations.
• Communicate with end users to analyse and identify where processes can be improved to ultimately refine the quality of data within the business.
• Contribute to the documentation and end user training plans for new and existing BI and reporting systems.

Main responsibilities:
• Regular communication with a variety of end users to understand their requirements and fulfil requests that fit within our BI strategy.
• Work collaboratively to help build the data offered across the business to enable data driven decisions.
• Design a variety of sustainable reports, dashboards, and visualisations to present clear information, predominantly using the Power BI platform.
• Assist in the maintenance, and smooth running of a dimensionally modelled data warehouse (SQL, SSIS)
• Maintain and prioritise workload using the companies ticketing system.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of business process and system documentation.
• Support other ad-hoc related duties to support the IT team.

Relevant Skill

Required:
• Degree in Technical or numerical discipline or equivalent experience within a business environment.
• IT literate, MS Excel Skills.
• Understand concepts of Data Warehousing and analytical structures.
Desired:
• Experience with Power BI or reporting tools
• 365 Platforms
• Fundamentals understanding of SQL (preferably TSQL)
• Developing reports in Microsoft AX 2012 (or other ERP systems)


Personality:
• You are passionate about IT, driven with excellent attention to detail.
• Customer focused, excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships.
• Ability to time manage and priorities workload.

For any questions or to apply email: bicareers@harrisonspinks.co.uk

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InnerDrive placement opportunity

ABOUT INNERDRIVE
InnerDrive is a mental skills company that uses psychological research to help people improve their mindset, learning and key skills needed to perform under pressure. The company works across three main areas: Education, Sport and Business.
Within education, we are the market leaders in running school workshops. This sees us work with over 200 schools, running presentations to over 30,000 students. In sport, clients have included members of Team GB at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games, as well as many footballers from Manchester United, Tottenham, West Ham, Southampton and Brighton as well as having worked with senior internationals from England, Scotland, Wales and Japan. In business, we have worked with the likes of Microsoft, Pfizer and Mitsubishi on how to develop resilience and growth mindset with their employees.

ABOUT THE ROLE

An exciting and rare opportunity has emerged to join the InnerDrive team at our London office on a sandwich placement year. As a result of this placement, the successful candidate will have greatly improved their understanding of implementing computer science practices in the real world. Furthermore, this candidate will be viewed upon favourably should they wish to apply for a full-time role at InnerDrive upon graduation.
The role will include, but is not limited to:
• Website development (HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript)
• Coding on our HubSpot Customer Management and blogging back-end
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
• Assisting our course designers with online module development

ABOUT YOU

This is a rare opportunity as it is the first time we have offered this role. We are therefore looking for an exceptional candidate. We define exceptional as:
• Are a competent coder with attention to detail
• Are curious and willing to learn on the job
• Are aware of SEO best practices (Helpful but would be happy to teach this)
• Is willing to do more than what is normally expected. This includes demonstrating thorough preparation, determination after setbacks and have high levels of motivation to achieve
• Having a strong passion for computer science
• Someone who has a growth mindset and is open to feedback
• Solution focused and has the ability work independently
• Can follow instruction and adapt their style to quickly fit into our culture

ABOUT THE SELECTION PROCESS

If interested, please send a CV (no more than two pages, but ideally only one), a 200 word statement on why you would like to work for InnerDrive to info@innerdrive.co.uk with the subject as ‘InnerDrive Sandwich Placement’. Interviews will then be held via Zoom.

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Placements and Summer Internships still available

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Opportunities include: Software developer (Summer Internship), Leeds; Business analyst (Placement), Newcastle; Software developer (Placement), Durham; Computer Science with Wildlife Research (Placement), Hampshire; Bioinformatics (6-12month) Internship, London.