Lab Operations Manager

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia The Garvan Institute of Medical Research Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lab Manager to join our dynamic team at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. As a key member of our Genomic Medicine Lab, you will play a critical role in supporting our day-to-day operations and strategic activities.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage lab operations, workflows, and resources, including clinical and genomic samples and data.
  • Maintain compliance with relevant institutional, ethics, and grant reporting requirements.
  • Support the financial management of the lab by working closely with the Garvan Finance team to track spending, perform budget forecasting, and generate reports.
  • Develop and amend submissions to Human Research Ethics Committees.
  • Support the production of scientific manuscripts and presentations, and funding applications to government, philanthropic, and industry bodies.
  • Support participant recruitment and consent, and the collection, processing, tracking, and storage of clinical samples.
  • Coordinate submission of clinical samples to the Garvan Sequencing Platform and other service providers, and support the secure transfer, storage, and exchange of datasets.
  • Provide support with the onboarding and supervision of junior staff and students.
  • Continuously survey lab operations to identify areas of inefficiency or risk, and work with the Lab Head to address these issues.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or higher with at least two years of lab or project management experience.
  • Exceptional time management and organisational skills, with evidence of an ability to manage a complex and dynamic workload.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • A demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects on time and on budget, with a high degree of independence.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, with an ability to work effectively with a diverse range of individuals including researchers, professional staff, clinicians, and patients.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience leading the production of high-quality funding applications, manuscripts, Human Research Ethics applications, and oral presentations.
  • A demonstrated commitment to continuous quality improvement.
  • A strong command of online collaborative tools (e.g. Airtable, Slack, Google Workspace).
  • Highly collaborative, and able to build and maintain relationships within and between teams.
About Us

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision. We are proud to be one of Australia's largest and most highly regarded MRI's.

Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.

We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.

Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. We are always looking for culture 'add', not culture 'fit' and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively.



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