Research Assistant/associate: Leukaemia Research

**Salary**:
**Research Assistant**: £32,546 to £34,132 per annum
**Research Associate**: £35,116 to £38,249 per annum
Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
**Closing Date**: 20 March 2025
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Assistant/Associate to join a leukaemia research team within the Biosciences Institute. You will work within the Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre to support a new and exciting project funded by Cancer Research UK.
NUBI houses over 100 research groups striving to drive forward our mechanistic understanding of human disease. It brings together biochemists, computational biologists, bioengineers and cellular and molecular specialists, providing a truly multidisciplinary environment in which to work.
This post is fixed term for a period of 3 years (from a start date of 1 April 2025).
As part of our commitment to career development for research colleagues, the University has developed 3 levels of research role profiles. These profiles set out firstly the generic competences and responsibilities expected of role holders at each level and secondly the general qualifications and experiences needed for entry at a particular level.
Please note that if you are successful to this role, you will require medical clearance before you can commence in the role
Key Accountabilities
- Although working under the general guidance of an academic or Principal Investigator, the postholder will contribute ideas, including enhancements to the technical or methodological aspects of their studies, thus providing substantial 'added value'
- Develop and carry out the specified project using appropriate methods and pipelines as outlined in the personal requirements
- Determine appropriate methodologies for research, with advice and support where required
- Begin to write, with appropriate support, proposals for individual research funding or, where funders do not permit this, contribute to the writing of collective bids
- Assess research findings for the need/scope for further investigations
- Contribute to the writing up of their research for publication and dissemination, either through seminar and conference presentations or through publications
- Present research findings, either at conferences or through publications in reputable outlets appropriate to the discipline
- May be involved in the supervision, with guidance, of final year undergraduate research projects and in providing support to postgraduate research students or Research Assistants
- Will need to work with the support staff and, on occasions, with undergraduate and postgraduate students, and interact intellectually with other academic members of the Institute
- May contribute to events celebrating the public engagement of science/social sciences/humanities
- Develop an awareness of University structures, policies and procedures and relevant issues in the higher education, research, social and political environment

The Person
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Ability to work well as part of a team and rapidly acquire new skills
- Likelihood of advanced skills directly related to the research project
- High level of analytical and problem-solving capability
- Ability to communicate complex information with clarity and to encourage the commitment of others
- Experience of research with clear transferable skills and some experience or awareness of the research environment
- Presentations at conferences and/or high-quality publications
- Experience in developing and maintaining bioinformatic analysis pipelines
- Proficient in the processing and analysing next generation sequencing (NGS) data using Linux/UNIX
- Proficient in R and/or other programming languages for downstream computational and statistical analysis
- Experience with analysing ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq and RNA-seq data including differential enrichment and gene analysis, pathway enrichment and multi-omics approaches

Desirable
- Experience with processing and analysis of CUT&Tag and CUT&RUN data

Attributes and Behaviour
- Works collaboratively with other team and Institute members, respecting the expertise and knowledge of others
- Sets own priorities in conjunction with team and area objectives
- Has a positive attitude and strives to improve ways of working
- Uses face to face communication regularly; team meetings, one to ones, informal discussions/chats, briefing sessions etc
- Has good time management skills to enable timely completion of tasks

Desirable
- Takes responsibility for maintaining and training others
- Grasps opportunities to expand own responsibilities and expertise, investing personal effort in enhancing skills and continuous learning

**Qualifications**:

- A PhD (or close to finishing a PhD) ideally in medical/cancer bioinformatics. Those nearing completion o