Team Leader

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**The opportunity**:

- **Bring expertise in infectious disease virology for diagnostic or research purposes**:

- **Work within a supportive, rewarding, and collaborative team environment**:

- **Help make a difference in the unique environment at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness**

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The Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP), formerly the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), our national biocontainment research facility, is a vital part of Australia’s biosecurity infrastructure. Our team works closely with researchers, and animal and human health agencies to protect Australia’s multi-billion dollar livestock and aquaculture industries, and the general public, from emerging infectious disease threats.

In this role as an experienced and skilled senior diagnostic virologist you will lead the Diagnostic Mammalian Virology Team which is a part of the Diagnostics and Mammalian Infectious Disease Research (DMIDR) group. You will be a part of a multidisciplinary laboratory-based group that provides diagnostic and research capability for the investigation of and response to high impact and emerging diseases affecting livestock and other animals, including zoonotic agents.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to lead a team working in a microbiologically secure (PC-3) laboratory as the line manager responsible for diagnostic scientists and technicians and various outputs relating to the provision of quality assured laboratory diagnostic services and associated R&D projects. A particular focus will be on laboratory testing for exotic and infectious animal diseases of veterinary significance, disease surveillance, innocuity testing (testing imported biologicals to demonstrate absence of adventitious agents) and testing of other relevant biological samples.

**Your duties will include**:

- Provide leadership, direction, and communications to team members necessary to ensure accurate and informed diagnostic testing and reporting, production of reagents and reference materials, delivery of project work and effective team operations.
- Ensure transition of new diagnostic tests from research to routine use, managing test development and validation activities according to guidelines developed by SCAHLS and WOAH.
- Develop and maintain a network of professional contacts with staff in Australian state jurisdictional, university and commercial laboratories that have responsibilities for emergency animal or zoonotic disease response management and associated laboratory testing.
- Collaborate with other ACDP scientists to publish results of investigations and service activities in official reports, industry meetings and scientific publications, and manage publication plans in line with research project delivery.
- Working with line management to develop teamwork planning objectives that are aligned with group and performance goals and related KPIs for service provision and R&D activities.
- Contribute to the maintenance of laboratory practices and standards to meet the QA/QC requirements for testing and reporting outputs under NATA/ISO17025 and BSI/ISO9001 accreditation standards.
- Provide expertise and meet responsibilities of quality systems Technical Manager for Diagnostic Mammalian Virology.

**Location**:Geelong - Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) VIC

**Salary**:AU$126k - AU$148k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**:Specified term of 3 years / Full-time

**Reference**:96317

**To be considered you will need**:
**Essential**
Under CSIRO policy only those who meet all essential criteria can be appointed.
- Degree in an applicable field of science with a PhD or equivalent experience in virology or a related field.
- Demonstrated high level of scientific knowledge, competence, and record of achievement in veterinary and/or medical infectious disease virology for diagnostic or research purposes.
- Demonstrated experience in the management of a laboratory Quality Assurance system, accredited by NATA or equivalent authority, to a recognized international standard such as ISO/IEC 17025, and a demonstrated knowledge of compliance issues.
- Excellent interpersonal, writ