College Research Facility

**Job Purpose**
A recognised expert who will lead the multi-user cellular analysis facility, with responsibility for the planning, management and operation of this significant technical service ensuring appropriate use of staff and resources to ensure its efficient organisation, and sustainable development. The post-holder will have a key role to play in encouraging widespread, equitable and appropriate use and ensuring that the facility becomes and remains cost-effective.
The post-holder will to be a highly skilled research technologist with extensive experience in cellular imaging and analysis and will act as a research and information resource within and external to, the facility to provide specialist expertise, appropriate guidance, training and advice to users. The post holder will collaborate with academic, research staff and external users (including industry) and be responsible for the development of innovative techniques that will be key features of the role as will the input to various taught courses including provision of research projects for UG and PGT students as required.
The post-holder will also take a lead role in advising the College Research Facility Oversight Group on the future planning vision for the facility including advising on future equipment strategy.

**Main Duties**
Strategic and scientific leadership of the Lab
- Provide specialist expertise and knowledge in the fields covered by the Lab and act as the main point of contact for the Lab’s users and clients
- Make a leading contribution to shaping of research plans and ensure the facility is equipped to deliver a high quality cutting edge service to users.
- Develop and introduce new innovative methods that will improve and extend the Lab’s services.
- Maintain an up-to-date and thorough knowledge of the literature and developments in the fields covered by Lab.
- Attend meetings, conferences, workshops, seminars, and symposia in the fields covered by the Lab and present results of the Lab’s work whenever possible.
- Ensure that the Lab produces reliable, high-quality data for its clients and publishing results of the Lab’s work whenever possible.
- Lead and take responsibility for new proposals for equipment acquisitions.
- Develop standard operating procedures for all cellular analysis equipment within the facility.
- Train facility staff on equipment use to the point at which they can run experiments for PIs on a costed basis.

**Business management of the Lab**
- Work with University staff, external academics, and commercial clients to obtain funding for equipment usage, service provision, and staff time.
- Work with the Head of Facilities, the College Research Facilities Oversight Group and the College and University to obtain funding for new equipment purchases.
- Ensure that the College and external users are kept informed of the existence and potential uses of the facility’s equipment and services and, where possible, identify new research and business opportunities.
- Ensure that the facility’s clients and users are provided with sound, specialist advice on scientific and technical issues in fields covered by the Lab.
- Ensure that client inquiries about services and equipment are answered and that quotes for work are supplied promptly.
- Ensure that agreed project outputs are provided and results are communicated to clients in the agreed time frames.
- Manage commercial projects.
- Ensure that monthly invoices for equipment usage and services are supplied to the College’s finance office.
- Meet regularly with the Head of Facilities and Finance Business Partner to discuss the facility’s budget, charge rates, and relationship with the Department.
- Monitor and control expenditure.

**Operational management of the Lab**
- Assume overall and final responsibility for the facility’s operational management.
- Provide line management of personnel.
- Manage, motivate, and assign duties to personnel. Ensure they work well both individually and as a team, set standards for their work, and ensure their development and training needs are assessed and, where possible, met.
- Assist the personnel with client inquiries, scientific discussions, costing of work, instrument training, monitoring instrument usage, setting equitable guidelines for access, scientific and technical approaches and problems, data interpretation, and reporting of results to clients.
- Ensure the facility functions safely, efficiently, and effectively within the principles of the Quality Management System and appropriate Health & Safety regulations.
- Ensure that the facility’s equipment is kept in good working order and is fit for purpose
- Ensure the efficient and equitable use of the equipment, and that usage is monitored and recorded.
- Ensure that appropriate training, guidance, and trouble-shooting support are provided to users of the Lab’s equipment and services.
- Develop a Cellular Analysis facility website

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