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Job Category
CUPE 116
Job Profile
CUPE 116 Hourly - Research Assistant /Technician 3
Job Title
Research Assistant /Technician 3
Department
Ziels | Department of Civil Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science
Compensation Range
$28.42 - $30.99 CAD Hourly
Posting End Date
February 9, 2024
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.
Job End Date
May 31, 2024At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
Job Summary
To assist with tasks related to research activities within Professor Ryan Ziels’ research group. https://emberrlab.civil.ubc.ca/
Organizational Status
The Research Assistant reports to the Professor in-charge, Ryan Ziels, and interacts with graduate students and other research assistants in the team.
Work Performed
- Analyzing genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic datasets using standard bioinformatics software
- Assists graduate students in laboratory testing, when required
- Conducts laboratory experiments, collect data and perform required chemical analyses.
- Visualizing data by plotting in R software
- Assists in analyzing and recording data and writing manuscripts
- Assists in responding to peer reviewer comments and revising manuscripts
- Maintain reproducible computational workflows (e.g. ‘markdowns’) of produced code.
Consequence of Error/Judgement
Errors in performing tasks will require repetition of these (with identified errors corrected). The outputs of all tasks will be checked by the Professor-in-charge; hence, consequence of error is low.
Supervision Received
Supervised by Professor-in-charge.
Supervision Given
None
Minimum Qualifications
Completion of a relevant technical program or a university degree in a relevant discipline and a minimum three years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own
- Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion
Preferred Qualifications
A MASc degree in Chemical, Civil or Environmental Engineering or Genome Science and Technology
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