Airlock Coordinator

**Company Description**
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments - with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Due to the increasing demand from researchers looking to utilise the valuable datasets we hold, we have a new vacancy for an Airlock Coordinator to join our team. As an Airlock Coordinator, you will support the Airlock function to process researcher requests for the importing and exporting of files to, and from, the Genomics England Trusted Research Environments. This role is pivotal to maintaining trust for the participants and patients who have entrusted us with their data, whilst enabling valuable genomic research.

**Key accountabilities**
- Support the day-to-day function of the Airlock system, responding to requests, from researchers all over the world, to export data from and import data into the Genomics England Trusted Research Environments
- Assist in recording the usage of the Airlock system using archive spreadsheets, using this data to generate insights that will improve the future system.
- Provide support to research environment squads in the iteration of the Genomics England research environments with insights from how the Airlock systems are being used by the researchers

Aside from the core work within the role, you might also be interested in projects where you could:

- Work with the rest of the Airlock team and Airlock Committee, as well as members of the clinical team, bioinformatics team, system developers and external professionals to provide optimal end-to-end support for the Airlock functionality, including evolving and continuously improving the Genomics England Airlock policies and processes
- Assist in the maintenance, updating and improvement as and when necessary of the software that is used to provide the Airlock system
- Assist in the maintenance, updating and improvement as and when necessary of the Airlock related documentation, both internal and user facing
- Have a life science background, enabling a grasp of fundamental concepts in requests.
- Be computer literate using Excel, managing JIRA tickets, and contributing to database management including data input and ensuring accuracy.
- Have strong communication skills to allow them to work effectively with researchers, internal and external stakeholders, organise committee meetings and communicate rejections to requests.
- Due to the increasing demand from researchers looking to utilise the valuable datasets we hold, we have a new vacancy for an Airlock Coordinator to join our team. As an Airlock Coordinator, you will support the Airlock function to process researcher requests for the importing and exporting of files to, and from, the Trusted Research Environment. This role is pivotal to maintaining trust for the participants and patients who have entrusted us with their data, whilst enabling valuable genomic research.

**Key accountabilities**
- Support the day-to-day function of the Airlock system, responding to requests, from researchers all over the world, to export data from and import data into the Genomics England Trusted Research Environments
- Assist in recording the usage of the Airlock system using archive spreadsheets, using this data to generate insights that will improve the future system.
- Provide support to research environment squads in the iteration of the Genomics England research environments with insights from how the Airlock systems are being used by the researchers
- Aside from the core work within the role, you might also be interested in projects where you could:

- Work with the rest of the Airlock team and Airlock Committee, as well as members of the clinical team, bioinformatics team, system developers and external professionals to provide optimal end-to-end support for the Airlock functionality, including evolving and continuously improving the Genomics England Airlock policies and processes
- Assist in the maintenance, updating and improvement as and when necessary of the software that is used to provide the Airlock system
- Assist in the maintenance, updating and improvement as and when necessary of the Airlock related documentation, both internal and user facing
- Have a life science background, enabling a grasp of fundamental concepts in requests.
- Be computer literate using Excel, managing JIRA tickets, and contributing to database management including data input and ensuring accuracy.
- Have strong commu