Bioinformatician

For 40 years, our shared commitment to curing childhood cancer has united us. Together, we continue to accelerate the answers to make that possible.

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.

To accomplish our vision, we’re seeking someone who lives our values: owning and delivering meaningful work, collaborating to drive impact, challenging the status quo to create a better future, and balancing logic with empathy. Let’s achieve more, together.

**As our Bioinformatician your responsibilities will include**:

- Generating reproducible, high quality research results
- Having a demonstrated ability to design and conduct experiments independently as well as in a team environment
- Having highly developed skills in bioinformatics and genomics.
- High-level proficiency in bash, R, and python.
- Developing and implementing algorithms using omics data
- Statistical analysis for clinical and bench-side research
- Assessing, understanding and implementing bioinformatics tools and generating bioinformatics pipelines
- Teaching, assisting and mentoring scientists in the field of bioinformatics

**To succeed you will have**
- PhD or equivalent working experience in computational biology, genomics, or related field
- Strong demonstrated expertise working with multiple next generation sequencing methods
- Expertise in at least one of the following areas is desirable: Next generation sequencing, or cancer-, cell
- or molecular biology
- A highly motivated, flexible, creative and empathetic attitude to your work
- Strong abilities in problem-solving and independent thinking

**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
- Focus on employee wellbeing, including up to 5 gifted wellbeing days off (paid) per year

Join a group of dedicated people in a purpose-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.