Senior Research Assistant - Protein Degradation

• School of Biomedical Sciences

• Broaden your career within one of QLD’s largest employers.

• Collaborate with highly awarded, world-class colleagues.

• Work at our vibrant and conveniently located St Lucia campus.

• Based at St Lucia

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave.

• 17% superannuation contributions

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• On campus childcare options

• Cheap parking (from just $5 a day)

• Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity 

The Targeted Protein Degradation laboratory is interested in understanding the signal transduction pathways that are mis-regulated in disease. The primary purpose of this position is to provide support for research projects investigating the regulation of mitochondrial quality control by ubiquitin ligases.

The appointee will also be expected to maintain the laboratory and to contribute to the broader commercial and academic research interests of the group.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Undertakes advanced elements of research, in accordance with scientific/research discipline or methodology.

• Applies specialist technical skills or knowledge to research activities. 

• Under broad direction, sets up, monitors, and demonstrates standard experiments and equipment use.

• Maintains accurate records of experiments or technical activities and results/outcomes.

• Adjusts equipment to general specifications.

This is a part-time (minimum 50% - maximum 80%), fixed-term position for up to 12 months. The contract end date is based on current funding arrangements. Usual discussions will occur prior to this date as to the likelihood of continuation of this funding.

At HEW level 6, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $88,099 - $94,512, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $103,076 - $110,579 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

About You  

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Research Technician to apply their subject matter expertise in mitochondrial quality control and advanced knowledge of mitochondrial degradation within the Targeted Degradation team.

• An undergraduate degree in cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, or biochemistry

• Experience with tissue culture, Western blotting, fluorescence microscopy, molecular biology techniques.

• Experience preparing common laboratory buffers and reagents.

• Demonstrated ability to plan and conduct quality research.

• Demonstrated ability to use a wide range of computer applications used in laboratories.

• Excellent record keeping skills and a strong work ethic.

•  Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Demonstrated ability to follow instructions, communicate results, work in a safe manner according to provided instructions. 

• Advanced knowledge of mitochondrial quality control pathways.

• Well-developed problem-solving skills, with an ability to forward plan, prioritise tasks to meet deadlines and work with a high level of adaptability, both independently and as part of a team.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with proven ability to produce clear, succinct documentation.

• The ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders in a research environment.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

Questions? 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Senior Lecturer, Dr Julia Pagan on [email protected] . For application queries or a full job description, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Comprehensive cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section.  

• Resume 

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected]  

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Monday 25th March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-35785). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for Tuesday 16th March 2024.

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