Position title: Bioinformatics Application Specialist - ABLeS Program, Australian BioCommons

Employer: The University of Melbourne

Closing date: 05 December 2021

Brief position description: The Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS) at The University of Melbourne is an Australian BioCommons program aiming to grow and accelerate the ability to construct, maintain and gain insights from community developed life sciences data assets.

To achieve this outcome, ABLeS is providing communities with access to cloud and high-performance computing infrastructure (HPC), as well as the necessary expertise to use that infrastructure effectively.

The communities engaged will be diverse and represent life scientists researching native flora and fauna, threatened species, microbiomes, agriculture, and others. The infrastructures engaged will be similarly diverse, including Australia’s national supercomputing centres at NCI (Canberra) and Pawsey (Perth), as well as commercial cloud computing platforms.

Fundamental to the success of ABLeS are the software tools and methods various researchers and communities will use to generate and analyse data assets.

This new position will be directly involved in coordinating and supporting high profile research collaborations across Australia that will need to utilise various bioinformatics analyses and infrastructures to produce valuable data assets.

This role will report to the Associate Director of Cyberinfrastructure within the Australian BioCommons at the University of Melbourne. It will also work closely with Bioplatforms Australia, and other community leaders.

This is an excellent opportunity for the incumbent to broaden their experience and build new collaborations in this role of national breadth. The incumbent will have the opportunity to work across significant research communities and major national infrastructure facilities in the first-of-its-kind ABLeS initiative.

Job website: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/907049/bioinformatics-application-specialist-ables-program-australian-biocommons

Contact name: Fiona Kerr

Contact email: fiona.kerr@unimelb.edu.au