Ensembl Outreach Project Leader

Found in: Talent UK C2 - 2 weeks ago

Hinxton, United Kingdom Embl-Ebi Full time

Your role

As Ensembl Outreach Project Leader you will lead a team of Outreach Officers, who are involved in teaching, training and helping Ensembl users.

Ensembl Outreach responsibilities include:

Planning and delivering training workshops on our browser, tools and APIs, and using these in genome analyses, both virtually and in-person which requires extensive worldwide travel. Creating and maintaining documentation and e-learning materials. Direct support of user queries via email and RT (Request Tracker) including website, data, API and advanced tool support. Disseminating key developments via social media. Direct interaction with our development teams to fix bugs identified by users and find solutions to user problems. Identification of datasets of interest to our userbase.

In addition you will be responsible for:

Management of the Outreach team and their activities. Recruitment and training of new outreach officers. Coordination of training workshop delivery, liaising with international hosts and course collaborators to set up both standalone courses and Ensembl segments of longer courses. Monitoring and recording the team’s activities, and reporting on these through contributions to grant applications, publications and meetings. Aligning the Ensembl Outreach team’s activities with EMBL policies and strategy e.g. EDI and Green policy Assisting in the application of relevant grants and coordinating the writing of relevant publications. Contributing to expanding departmental training capabilities through knowledge sharing with other teams and developing joint events. Developing and driving new initiatives which strategically integrate Ensembl’s outreach and training with the training activities of the EMBL-EBI training team and wider EMBL-EBI Service teams. Continuous development of training and social media approaches – testing wider technical developments and best practices within and beyond our sector. Liaising with user communities to identify requirements underpinning novel use cases and training needs. Working with other managers to steer overall Ensembl strategy, providing a user perspective to discussions of future plans.

Closing date: 5 May 2024

Contract duration: 3 years (Grant based contract)

Grading: Grade 7 (monthly salary starting at £3,934 after tax) + other paid benefits based on personal circumstances

Reference number: EBI02236

Related

You have

A PhD or equivalent experience in bioinformatics, molecular biology, genetics or a related discipline Experience planning and delivering training in an academic and/or industrial environment. Familiarity with commonly-used online bioinformatics tools and resources. The ability to work independently and can deliver to deadlines A high level of attention to detail Experience in managing people or projects The ability to delegate and prioritise tasks Excellent English communication skills; written and verbal, both to facilitate effective internal communications as well as with external collaborators and users The ability to work well as a part of a team Enthusiasm to deliver presentations and workshops both online and at scientific institutes worldwide

You might also have

Technical bioinformatics skills e.g. Working with large scale NGS analysis, such as clinical genomics analysis, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq or similar; Using UNIX/Linux; Scripting in Python, Perl or R, particularly to access public databases; Working with relational databases Experience in teaching, public outreach, online help, customer service or planning events

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