Bioinformatician

**Location**:
Randwick - Sydney, Australia

Employment Type:
Full-Time Fixed Term

Department:
Experimental Therapeutics (ET)

**Salary**:
$85k-$95k + super + salary packaging

Closing Date:
10/03/2023

When you step into a role, what do you want the purpose of the company you work for to be? How does that align with the individual purpose that motivates your ambition?

As the only independent Medical Research institute in Australia focused on childhood cancer, our purpose is to translate and discover (through world class research), new treatments that will cure cancer and reduce the side effects in children and adolescents.

We save & change lives. At The Children’s Cancer Institute we believe that a life should be long. Cancer cuts life short for hundreds of children every year, before they’ve even had a chance to make their mark. We aim to not only improve their quality of life, but eradicate the cause of their pain.

Choose to be part of a team that will nurture your talent and grow your career, so you too can contribute to this purpose. Together, we can and we will cure all children of cancer. It’s not if. It’s when.

**As our Bioinformatician your purpose will be**:
To enhance the translational research conducted by the Brain Tumours (BT) and Experimental Therapeutics/Molecular Oncology (ET/MO) Groups through provision of bioinformatics expertise, ultimately providing better targeted treatment for children with cancer.

**Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to**:

- Taking primarily responsibility for bioinformatics analysis of internal and publicly available datasets
- Guiding experimental design and planning to ensure appropriateness for subsequent bioinformatic and statistical analyses
- Developing and implementing algorithms for next-generation sequencing analysis to:

- identify novel drug targets and assess safer therapeutics by discovering underlying targetable vulnerabilities
- analyse the biology of cancers and cancer models, including the evolution of tumours under treatment
- characterise molecular effects of novel treatment and identify biomarkers of drug response and resistance
- Using your expertise to assist in publishing high-impact manuscripts and grants from the data generated by the Brain Tumours (BT) and Experimental Therapeutics/Molecular Oncology (ET/MO) Groups, informing translational therapeutics.
- Liaising with the Bioinformatics Support Network and contributing to the bioinformatics education of researchers
- Presenting research at conferences and seminars
- Working in collaboration with other research teams at the institute as required

**Qualifications, experience, and skills required**:
Essential:

- BSc in either Bioinformatics, Biology, Molecular Biology, Computer Science or Statistics
- Experience in the analysis of RNA-seq and other Next
- Generation Sequencing data or proteomics and metabolomics data
- Expertise in at least two of Bash, R, Python or Perl
- Highly motivated, flexible, creative and empathetic
- Excellent attention to detail and proof-reading skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Desirable:

- MSc or PhD in the field of cancer research
- Prior experience in the field of cancer research
- Expertise in the interpretation of molecular data analysis

**We will support you to be your best with benefits that include but are not limited to**:

- Access to our ‘FlexBEST’ program - true flexibility from day 1 - options include hybrid working, school-friendly hours, and 9-day working fortnight
- Focus on employee wellbeing, including a leading EAP program, and up to 5 gifted wellbeing days off (paid) per year
- Investment in leadership development and career advancement opportunities

Join a group of dedicated people in a performance-driven environment to achieve success and discover what it's like to look forward to coming to work every day and make a real difference.