Position title: Academic Specialist – Bioinformatics
Employer: The University of Melbourne
Closing date: 07 Oct 2020
Brief position description: This is one of two exciting positions, representing an opportunity for a talented bioinformatician to forge a career in this new frontier. Melbourne Bioinformatics creates an environment for bioinformaticians to work on a range of high-impact research projects, share their expertise and develop their teaching and training skills, all in the company of a team of dedicated experts across computer science, data sciences, biology and research infrastructure bioinformatics. We perform a very important function in the precinct; creating a pipeline of talent and building up bioinformatics capacity-building at a time of great skills shortage in this specialised area.
The preferred candidate will enjoy teaching, have strong analytical and programming skills and possess demonstrable personal qualities in the areas of communication, collaboration and organisation. As a member of the Melbourne Bioinformatics expert team it is also expected that the role will involve contributing to our teaching and training program and community skills development activities.
Melbourne Bioinformatics operates at the Parkville Campus of The University of Melbourne and supports researchers who recognise that life science research is fast becoming a data science. Our experts assist with research design and grant applications, advise on computing options, engage in deep research collaborations, develop bioinformatics algorithms and software, create and deliver both online and hands-on bioinformatics training, and deliver the MSc (Bioinformatics) course, as well as supervising PhD and Masters research projects.
Melbourne Bioinformatics collaborates on a range of national and international platform development and digital research infrastructure projects and hosts the Australian BioCommons, a $20m NCRIS-funded digital research infrastructure program for life science research (2019-2023).
Job website: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/903263/academic-specialist-bioinformatics-2-positions
Contact name: Fiona Kerr
Contact email: fiona.kerr@unimelb.edu.au