Ensembl Outreach Project Leader - Hinxton, United Kingdom - Embl-Ebi

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    Embl-Ebi Hinxton, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    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