Bioinformatics

Ref. No. SU FV-0895-24

at the Department of biochemistry and biophysics . Closing date: 15 April 2024.

SciLifeLab is a national center for molecular biosciences with a focus on health and environmental research. The center combines frontline technical expertise with advanced knowledge of translational medicine and molecular bioscience. SciLifeLab is a national resource hosted by Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and Uppsala University. The center also collaborates with several other universities.

The employment will be placed at the Department of biochemistry and biophysics, at Stockholm university.

We are looking for a new colleague that wants to contribute to establishing the SciLifeLab national training support efforts.

The SciLifeLab Training Hub team within SciLifeLab focuses on establishing infrastructure, support and training services for the SciLifeLab life science community, with particular emphasis on supporting and training staff-scientists within SciLifeLab to deliver openly accessible and FAIR training. The current team at SciLifeLab Training Hub consists of training design-development-delivery experts with focus on pedagogy, training support, communication and digital training amongst other things. To strengthen our competency profile, we are now seeking a Scientific Training Officer (Trainer and coordinator) that will focus on Open Science and FAIR training support for trainers and researchers at SciLifeLab to complement the team.

Main responsibilities
You will generally work with:

• Raising awareness of the importance of Open Science and FAIR among staff scientists, researchers and technology experts across SciLifeLab and its ecosystem.  
• Developing shared work processes and standards with stakeholders to make training FAIR (with regards to training design, development and delivery in topics from the technology- and data-driven life sciences i.e the range of disciplines found within SciLifeLab).
• Building expertise in Open Science and FAIR among staff scientists and researchers that are the trainers in their topic.

Specially you will work with:

• SciLifeLab Training Portfolio
  • Support with the design, development and delivery of training modules in Open Science, FAIR and other related topics.
  • Develop & deliver training courses, across the several scientific topics within SciLifeLab, together with the relevant SciLifeLab stakeholders such as staff scientists at platforms and researchers in Capabilities.
• SciLifeLab Training Network
  • Support/facilitate the SciLifeLab sites and platforms in strengthening their training design, development and delivery.
• SciLifeLab Training Portal
  • Quality assure that both established and new SciLifeLab training materials, course materials, and resources are FAIR (especially Findable and Reusable in our training portal).
  • Convert (to the greatest extent possible) SciLifeLab Training materials and resources into open educational resources.
  • Create new resources/guidelines to support trainers/instructors/course leaders in implementing FAIR and Open Science aspects into their courses and teaching/learning activities.

Qualification requirements
Requirements

• A PhD or equivalent e.g. a master’s degree with several years of working experience, within life science or training/education within the life sciences
• Well-versed in the principles of Open Science and FAIR, and their application in training/education
• Experience with version control systems such as Github, and reproducible ways-of-working (for example markdown, conda, etc)
• Highly organised with the ability to document actions and processes, translate objectives into specific tasks, and prioritise and assign/delegate tasks
• Ability to engage other people to contribute and co-create training
• Experience in working on open projects (this could be open source, open research, or other openly shared collaborative work).

Meriting

• Experience of working with training and/or education using relevant metadata standards, ontologies and controlled vocabularies coupled to training/education is a plus
• Experience of developing and working according to standard operating procedures
• Experience of working with user support.
• Experience of working in international collaborations or networks.

Emphasis will be put on personal suitability. The applicant shall have good interpersonal and communication skills, and be self-motivated. You should be service minded and able to adapt. You should also be quality conscious and result oriented. You should be able to communicate in English in both speech and writing.

Terms of employment
This is a full-time, indefinite-term position with a six-month trial period. Salaries at Stockholm University are determined individually; therefore, please indicate your requested salary. Start date immediately.

Stockholm University strives to be a workplace free from discrimination and with equal opportunities for all.

Contact 
Further information about the position can be obtained from the Head of Training at SciLifeLab Training Hub, Associate Professor Jessica Lindvall, telephone: +46 70 710 63 47, [email protected] .

Union representatives
Ingrid Lander (Saco-S), telephone: +46 708 16 26 64, [email protected] , Alejandra Pizarro Carrasco (Fackförbundet ST/OFR), telephone: +46 8 16 34 89, [email protected] , and [email protected] (SEKO).

Application
Apply for the position at Stockholm University's recruitment system. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the job advertisement, and that it is submitted before the deadline.

Only include the cover letter and CV in your application. Bring copies of grades and certificates if you are called to an interview.

The instructions for applicants are available at: How to apply for a position .

You are welcome to apply!

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