Project Lead – Federated European Genome Phenome Archive

Undertaking Lead – Federated European Genome Phenome Archive

EMBL-EBI – European Bioinformatics Institute

Hinxton, United Kingdom

Organisation information: EGA and EVA
Job Quantity: EBI02224
Contract Kind: Workers Member
Contract Period-Size of Time (years/months): 3 years
Marketed Grade-Grading: 7 (month-to-month wage beginning at £3,934.74 after tax) + advantages
Time limit: 7 April 2024

Concerning the workforce/job

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is looking for a Undertaking Result in coordinate EMBL-EBI’s management within the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) challenge and take part in a wide range of different UK- and EC-based initiatives.

The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA – https://ega-archive.org/), established in 2008 at EMBL-EBI, is a useful resource for long run safe archiving of all varieties of probably identifiable genetic, phenotypic, and medical information ensuing from biomedical analysis initiatives. Within the period of quickly increasing genomics analysis and the transformation of human information sharing from research-driven to healthcare-funded endeavours, there’s a rising significance for the reuse of delicate human information globally for analysis and healthcare initiatives. The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA), launched by EMBL-EBI and Middle for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Barcelona) in 2022, has emerged as a pivotal challenge to facilitate the transnational discovery of delicate human omics information. Presently, it consists of nodes in eight international locations and discussions on future membership are ongoing with over twenty international locations and institutes.

FEGA is a key supporting infrastructure for the ELIXIR Federated Human Data (FHD) neighborhood and the Genome Data Infrastructure (GDI) challenge. FHD offers coordination throughout a lot of EU, ELIXIR, and internationally funded initiatives that drive in direction of supply of a shared imaginative and prescient of a federated ecosystem of interoperable companies that allows inhabitants scale genomic and biomolecular information to be accessible throughout worldwide borders. The GDI challenge seeks to implement the imaginative and prescient of the 1+MG declaration to make >1M human genomes accessible for secondary analysis.

You and members of the EGA workforce play an energetic position in each of those initiatives. The EGA is intently aligned with the International Alliance for Genomics and Well being (GA4GH) to make sure interoperability between FEGA and different world human information networks.

Your position

You’ll work intently with colleagues in CRG, ELIXIR, and the inaugural FEGA nodes to determine gaps, coordinate working teams and committees, and determine and work together with stakeholders. You should have the chance to take part in a wide range of UK- and EC-funded initiatives to additional the strategic targets of the EGA and obtain the imaginative and prescient of FEGA. You’ll signify the EGA workforce at nationwide and worldwide conferences so wonderful communication abilities are important. You’ll work intently with the technical and operations leads within the EGA workforce, and line handle 2-3 EGA workforce members.

Key obligations

• Chairing, internet hosting coordinating related conferences for the FEGA, FHD, and GDI communities;
• Proactively figuring out and coordinating work required to succeed in the targets of FEGA, GDI, and the 1+MG initiative;
• Actively constructing and rising communities for federated human information actions inside ELIXIR;
• Contributing to required challenge reporting;
• Contribute to related outreach actions resembling giving shows, coordinating webinars or workshops, or getting ready different outreach supplies;
• Making certain alignment of EGA roadmap with evolving FEGA developments.

You have got

• A postgraduate diploma within the life sciences or comparable, or equal business expertise;
• Expertise in coordinating advanced initiatives throughout a workforce or a lot of companions;
• Expertise working with human genetic and phenotypic information, ideally in a bioinformatics atmosphere;
• Expertise interacting with or dealing with genetic or phenotype information (e.g. next-generation sequencing, genotyping, medical phenotypes);
• Demonstrable expertise related to writing challenge technical reviews;
• Expertise in planning, chairing, and minuting conferences;
• Wonderful written and verbal English language abilities;
• A excessive degree of accuracy and a focus to element;
• Good organisational abilities, the power to prioritise completely different duties and to handle a heavy workload;
• A confirmed means to successfully work together with a number of stakeholders to ship outcomes;
• Wonderful interpersonal and communication abilities;
• Expertise of working and delivering leads to a high-paced, multidisciplinary skilled/educational workforce atmosphere;
• A excessive degree of unbiased working, initiative, and suppleness;
• Capacity to extract and distil reporting info from advanced units of sources.

You may also have

• Expertise of motivating and supervising employees members;
• Expertise of interacting with relational databases to extract reporting info;
• Expertise of utilizing a pc scripting language (e.g. Python, Awk, and so on.);
• Familiarity with generally used ontologies for human phenotypes.

Why be a part of us

Do one thing significant

At EMBL-EBI you may apply your expertise and keenness to speed up science and sort out a few of humankind’s best challenges. EMBL-EBI, a part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, is a worldwide chief within the storage, evaluation and dissemination of huge organic datasets. We offer the worldwide analysis neighborhood with entry to publicly accessible databases and instruments that are essential for the development of healthcare, meals safety, and biodiversity.

Be a part of a tradition of innovation

We’re situated on the Wellcome Genome Campus, alongside different outstanding analysis and biotech organisations, and surrounded by stunning Cambridgeshire countryside. This can be a extremely collaborative and inclusive neighborhood the place our staff take pleasure in a relaxed environment. We’re dedicated to making sure our staff really feel valued, supported and empowered to succeed in their skilled potential.

Get pleasure from a lot of advantages

• Monetary incentives: Month-to-month household, little one and non-resident allowances, annual wage evaluation, pension scheme, demise profit, long-term care, accident-at-work and unemployment insurances;
• Versatile working preparations together with hybrid working patterns and hours a minimum of 0.8 FTE;
• Personal medical insurance coverage for you and your fast household (together with all prescriptions and beneficiant dental & optical cowl);
• Beneficiant time without work: 30 days annual go away per yr, along with eight financial institution holidays;
• Relocation bundle together with set up grant (if required);
• Campus life: Free shuttle bus to and from work, on-site library, subsidised on-site health club and cafeteria, informal gown code, in depth sports activities and social membership actions (on campus and remotely);
• Household advantages: On-site nursery, 10 days of kid sick go away (underneath 12), beneficiant parental go away, vacation golf equipment on campus and month-to-month household and little one allowances;
• Advantages for non-UK residents: Visa exemption, training grant for personal education, monetary help to journey again to your private home nation each second yr and a month-to-month non-resident allowance.

For extra particulars please see our employee benefits page.

What else you could know

• Contract period: This place is a 3 yr fixed-term contract, project-limited to work on the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive;
• Worldwide candidates: We recruit internationally and profitable candidates are provided visa exemptions. Learn extra on our page for international applicants;
• Variety and inclusion: At EMBL-EBI, we strongly imagine that inclusive and various groups profit from larger ranges of innovation and artistic thought. We encourage purposes from girls, LGBTQ+ and people from all nationalities;
• Job location: This position relies in Hinxton, close to Cambridge, UK. You’ll be required to relocate if you’re primarily based abroad and you’ll obtain a beneficiant relocation bundle to help you. You’ll be required to be on website a minimal of two days per week, which should embody our core Thursday;
• How one can apply: To use please submit a canopy letter and a CV (two pages every most) by means of our on-line system;
• Interviews: Will probably be held through Zoom in April. Precise dates and occasions might be confirmed to chose candidates.

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