Bioinformatics Research Officer

2 days ago

Sydney, Australia Children's Cancer Institute Full time

We save & change lives. At 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.

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.

Choose to be part of a team that will nurture your talent, 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 responsibilities will include**:

- Generating reproducible, high quality research results.
- Developing, validating and implementing algorithms using multi-omics (notably RNA-seq) data.
- Performing statistical analysis for clinical and bench-side research.
- Assessing, understanding and implementing bioinformatics tools and generating bioinformatics pipelines.
- Presenting work in seminars and laboratory meetings, and publishing work in academic journals.
- 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 demonstrated ability to design and conduct experimental work and analysis independently as well as part of a team.
- Having highly developed skills in bioinformatics and genomics
- High-level proficiency in Bash, R, and/or Python.
- A highly motivated, flexible, creative and empathetic attitude to your work
- Good written and oral presentation skillsStrong 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.

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