We are looking to recruit a highly enthusiastic and motivated full-time Research Assistant to join the group of the late Prof. Greg Hannon. The Hannon laboratory are internationally recognised for their contributions to small RNA pathways, cancer biology and mammalian genomics. The Hannon lab is a large lab of approximately 40 individuals with ranging levels of seniority and a research administration team. The role holder would be responsible for interacting across the entire team.
The team is looking for an individual to support laboratory operations across the whole group. The role will be supporting the lab manager in ensuring that the laboratory runs smoothly and efficiently, with responsibility for monitoring and reordering common stocks items as well as supporting with equipment maintenance and producing and monitoring inventories of reagents in the lab. The role will also be responsible for Health and Safety processes across the lab. The role also requires data management tasks, managing big data (Genomics and Imaging) across internal server systems, updating, editing and maintaining existing records and archiving old data as and when required.
With large research groups such as this, it is vital that this role holder has outstanding interpersonal skills and has a positive, flexible, and diplomatic approach to demanding situations. This role will involve communication across the entire research group and therefore will require excellent team working and communications skills (verbal and written). Due to the nature of the role, we would expect this individual to be innovative, independent, and confident in their own decision making and highly organised. This will ensure that the laboratory environment is always clean, well-organised and safe.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 August 2027 in the first instance.
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