Job date: 2016-08-04
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Company : The University of Sheffield Country : Role : Research Scientist
We are looking for a solid well experienced Bioinformatics Core Director
About you: You have a background in biomedical/quantitative science and a strong interest in working with researchers in diverse areas of animal, plant, genomics and biomedical research. You thrive on scientific challenges, enjoy collaborating with an interdisciplinary team and excel at communicating and coordinating between programmers and wet-lab scientists. Learning and applying new methods is natural for you, and you are motivated to continuously expand your skills. You have superb data and project management skills. You enjoy working on different projects and deadlines, frequently in collaboration with other Cores and research groups.
Your Role: You will provide leadership in the development of a highly integrated professional services team. The team will be following best practices for consulting that include understanding and fitting solutions to needs, estimating efforts and skills, contributing high value to proposals and creating high quality deliverables for study project reports and publications. You will employ best practice to develop strong standards for quality and reuse. Your team will support researchers in the Sheffield community with their data management, quality control, analysis of data and presentation of results. Projects are usually a mix of short-term support tasks and long-term collaborations; most support tasks and methods eventually become standardized workflows. You will need broad experience in several bioinformatics domains such as microarray analysis (expression, methylation), NGS sequencing (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, genome assembly, exome/WGS sequencing) or functional analysis and know how to implement your analyses in reproducible workflows. You will be expected to coordinate selected research or support projects and act as an independent point of contact for researchers. Leveraging the experience of the Core Academic Director, Professor Winston Hide;you will help establish the consultant services model and promote the activities of the Core to establish a community of best practice. The Core Director is expected to create deliverables in support of The University of Sheffield and Hospitals researchers
You will direct and build the core - so you will be the driver and visionary!
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