Research Assistant

5 days ago

Sydney, Australia Children's Cancer Institute Full time

**Location**:
Randwick - Sydney, Australia

Employment Type:
Full-Time Fixed Term

Department:
Computational Drug Discovery Biology (CDDB)

**Salary**:
$65k-$80k + super + salary packaging

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 Research Assistant / Officer in the Drug Discovery Biology Group your purpose will be to**:

- Develop cutting-edge methods to advance drug discovery
- Perform functional screening, such as CRISPR screens, to identify and validate new drug targets for childhood cancer
- Discover and validate biomarkers of response to targeted perturbations specific to paediatric indications.
- Achieve an outstanding level of competence in all aspects of experimental work
- Stay abreast on advances in genomics and next generation sequencing technology in general, maintaining knowledge about drug discovery and translational biology.
- Be motivated to seek academic career progression opportunities through driving manuscript writing, grant writing and presenting research and conferences.

**To succeed you will have**
- At a minimum a Bachelor’s degree with honours (RA) or PhD (RO) in molecular biology or related field
- Highly developed skills in molecular and cellular biology techniques such as but not limited to cancer cell cultures, _in vitro_ drug testing, nucleic acids isolation and quantification, immunoblotting, and basic data analysis and presentation
- The ability to develop, manage and maintain internal and external relationships, including collaborations
- A highly motivated attitude to produce high quality outcomes in pursuit of translational excellence
- Applicants seeking full time or part time work would be considered

**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.

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