Senior Research Fellow – Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Senior Research Fellow – Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Job No.: 641277

Location: The Alfred Centre

Employment Type: Full-time 

Duration: 2-year fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $127,624 – $147,159 pa Level C (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

The Opportunity

The Senior Research Fellow (Bioinformatician) will make independent or original contributions to the research effort within their field of expertise and to the organisational unit or inter-disciplinary area of which they are a part. The Senior Research Fellow will provide expert advice to researchers at the Central Clinical School, will exercise some degree of leadership in research, and will coordinate the growing bioinformatics community at that site. The Senior Research Fellow would be expected to spend most of their time at the Central Clinical School based at the Alfred Hospital, however, will also work with the Monash Bioinformatics Platform alongside a team of expert bioinformaticians at Clayton on a regular basis. The Monash Bioinformatics Platform is a team that provides a hub for research collaborations in bioinformatics, and training as well as facilitating broader collaborations across Monash University’s research groups.

The Senior Research Fellow will conduct research and produce papers and publications. The role will also supervise administrative staff and coordinate a Masters/PhD level unit on Bioinformatics in one semester. Where appropriate, the Senior Research Fellow may lead research teams or manage projects and will be responsible for preparing research proposal submissions to external funding bodies.

The successful candidate will have a doctoral qualification in a relevant discipline such as such as biology, computer science, physics, statistics or bioinformatics or equivalent accreditation and standing together with subsequent research experience. Experience in bioinformatics analysis, in particular, in cancer genomics, transcriptomics and knowledge of R, is required for success in this role. The successful candidate will have strong communication skills, high-level organisational skills and experience supervising and mentoring research staff.

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

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Enquiries

Dr Deanna Deveson Lucas, Monash Bioinformatics Platform Manager, +61 3 9902 9186

Position Description

 Senior Research Fellow – Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

Closing Date

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 11:55pm AEDT

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