When you step into a role, what do you want the purpose of the company you work for to be? How does that align with the individual purpose that motivates your ambition?
As the only independent Medical Research institute in Australia focused on childhood cancer, our purpose is to translate and discover (through world class research), new treatments that will cure cancer and reduce the side effects in children and adolescents.
We save & change lives. At The Children’s Cancer Institute we believe that a life should be long. Cancer cuts life short for hundreds of children every year, before they’ve even had a chance to make their mark. We aim to not only improve their quality of life, but eradicate the cause of their pain.
Choose to be part of a team that will nurture your talent and grow your career, so you too can contribute to this purpose. Together, we can and we will cure all children of cancer. It’s not if. It’s when.
As our Assistant Laboratory Manager within our Personalised Medicine team your purpose will be to:
- Coordinate and help manage people and research infrastructure to achieve impactful results.
- Provide high level molecular biology expertise and advice with the ability to critically evaluate experiment results and to effectively, and succinctly communicate these to various stakeholders in a timely manner and appropriate way.
- Implement a continuous improvement approach to all aspects of the role.
- Actively engage and drive the continued development of the programs technical capacity to ensure it remains at the cutting edge of clinically relevant research.
- Drive the design, testing and implementation of novel experimental protocols and approaches to advance personalised medicine approaches in children’s cancer.
- Deliver timely, and accurate results of complex technical workflows at a rigour expected of clinically relevant data and extract relevant information from the data and be capable of presenting this to a wide range of audiences.
- Track and meticulously record all aspects of laboratory operations whilst ensuring patient confidentiality
To succeed you will have…
- Extensive laboratory experience (molecular) and a proven ability to work with others.
- The ability to independently manage competing goals.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to guide and positively influence more junior scientists and technical staff.
- High level molecular expertise with proven ability to operate in an independent manner.
- Be highly skilled in communications and must be capable of always maintaining a professional demeanour.
- An ability to develop protocols from first principles.
- Skills to work in an independent manner with a minimum of oversight.
- A good understand of clinical lab standards and be able to implement these where required.
We will support you to be your best with benefits that include but are not limited to:
- Access to our ‘FlexBEST’ program – true flexibility from day 1
- Focus on employee wellbeing, including a leading EAP program, and up to 5 gifted wellbeing days off (paid) per year
- Investment in leadership development and career advancement opportunities
Join a group of dedicated people in a performance-driven environment to achieve success and discover what it's like to look forward to coming to work every day and make a real difference.
A detailed job description and additional information about Children's Cancer Institute can be found on our website at: https://www.ccia.org.au/careers-study . We embrace diversity and encourage applications from people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
