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Bioinformatician – Pathology

Date:  22 Jan 2025
Site:  VCCC (Parkville)
Location: 

MELBOURNE, VIC, AU, 3000

Company:  Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Unit:  Molecular Pathology
Division:  Business Ventures
Department:  Pathology Operations
Enterprise Agreement:  Health and Allied Services, Managers and Administr
Molecular Pathology

At Peter Mac we aim to continuously improve cancer care, research and education across all cancers and for all people affected by cancer: changing lives, breaking new ground. Everything we do is underpinned by our core values, Excellence, Compassion and Innovation. Welcoming people from a wide variety of different backgrounds and experiences is critical to fostering innovation, cultivating compassion, attracting and retaining top talent and providing the best possible cancer care for our patients.

 

YOUR ROLE IN OUR FUTURE
 

Fixed Term Part Time Role 

 

The Molecular Pathology Laboratory in the Department of Pathology is looking for an experienced Bioinformatician to join our Wilson Blood Cancer Genomics Team to help support the molecular diagnostic services. The fixed term part-time position presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to this rapidly growing field. Fixed term part time role 60 hours per fortnight. 

Suitable candidates must be highly motivated, self-driven, patient-focused, and possess a relevant degree with genetics and molecular biology experience. Demonstrated experience in developing and implement genomic software applications to facilitate novel genomic assays including ctDNA measurable residual disease testing, NGS clinical reporting and data aggregation software for browsability of genomics results would be an advantage.


 Victorian Department of Health has a program of reforms across the public pathology system in Victoria.
As part of these reforms, the pathology services from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Royal Women’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital are being considered for transition to a new style of service within Local Area Networks. The new model for delivering public pathology services will present an exciting opportunity to improve the scope, scale and reach of pathology services and testing capability to all Victorians.
As this role is with Parkville, the successful candidate for this role will be initially employed by Parkville. However, this position and the successful candidate’s employment (including terms and conditions of employment) may be subject to a transition as part of this reform agenda. Please contact the recruiter if you have any questions on the pathology reforms.
 

 

Applicants to this role should provide a covering letter outlining relative key skills and experience to assist us with our assessment.

For further information about this opportunity, click Apply to be redirected to the Peter Mac Careers page where you can review the position summary.

 

Alternatively, please contact us using the information below for a confidential discussion.

Hiring Manager: Piers Blombery
Contact Number: 03 8559 8424
Email: piers.blombery@petermac.org

 

Applications Close: 11:59PM Wednesday 5 February 2025
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Position Summary

This position requires a bioinformatician to support the clinical and research goals of the Wilson Centre for Blood Cancer Genomics. This position will be involved in designing and implementing new bioinformatic pipelines and workflows for NGS assays as well as the creating and developing tools for the aggregation and visualisation of existing large genomic datasets.
This role will be required to undertake both bioinformatics research to optimise analysis methodologies and bioinformatics operational development to streamline service deliveries. 
Key responsibilities include, but not limited to:

  • Working with members of Wilson Centre to support the design and implementation of new analysis and workflow solutions.
  • Analyse and interpret QC data of sequencing experiments to facilitate assay optimisation.   Working with pathologists, medical scientists and researchers to support analytics and bioinformatics needs.
  • The successful candidate will have an MD/PhD in Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or equivalent. The candidate will have three or more years of experience in the field of human bioinformatics.

 

 

This role will contribute to the University of Melbourne's partnership with international genomics company Illumina by collaborating with The Advanced Genomics Collaboration by jointly fostering the development of world-leading genomics research and innovation activities and to accelerate the translation of these innovation through to adoption in the healthcare system.

Enterprise Agreement

Allied Health Professionals (Victorian Public Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2021 - 2025

Classification or Salary Range

HS5 year 1-5 

Immunisation Risk Category

Category C: Position within a non-clinical setting

Key Relationships

Internal
  • Molecular Pathology 
  • Clinical Bioinformatics team 
  • Bionformatics Core Facility
  • Research Computing Facility (RCF)
External
  • Staff and students from other research institutes including WEHI and the University of Melbourne.
     

 

Education

Skills

Essential Requirements
  • Qualification, experience and skills
  • PhD in an appropriate area of study (such as Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Computer Science, or Software Engineering).
  • Minimum of three-year relevant working experience with exposure to the analysis of next-generation sequencing data for human disease research.
  • Strong experience high-throughput transcriptomics/ RNA-sequencing and single-cell sequencing technologies.
  • Strong academic track record. demonstrated by publications and grant applications
  • Good track record of academic outreach, demonstrated by external oral presentations.
  • Excellent programming and data analysis skills in R and Python. Experience working in a Unix environment and shell scripting.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work constructively within a cross-disciplinary team environment. Excellent attention to detail, ensuring that data analysis, new methods and software implementations are of high quality and accessible to other researchers.
  • Ability to manage time effectively.
Desirable Requirements
  • Experience in image analysis and data integration (across -omics and imaging data). Pipeline development and frameworks such as Nextflow.
  • Experience working with high-performance computing (HPC) systems, or in a cloud computing environment.
  • Whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing related bioinformatics techniques

 

Certifications, Licenses & Registrations

Key Accountabilities

1. Design and implement bioinformatic analysis solutions to support core facilities operations
  • Accuracy and quality in the processing and analysis of
  • data.
  • Ability to optimize utilisation of resources, taking into consideration compute, storage and budget.
  • Adhere to best practice in code and project documentation.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and solve technical problems Ability to critically interpret QC and analysis results
  • Well-developed planning and organizational skills.
2. Communication of requirements and outcomes
  • Provide a high standard of service and support to our stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with our stakeholders.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with researchers, laboratory technicians, bioinformaticians and software developers.
  • Ability to understand and analyse software and data analysis requirements.
  • Participation in lab/team meetings.
  • Presentation of results to other stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
3. Foster a good working relationship with colleagues
  • Development of a good working relationship with others in Molecular Pathology and Clinical Bioinformatics.
  • Ability to work in a team.
  • Willingness to help others in the team as required. High level of integrity and ethics.

 

Key Accountabilities (Contd..)

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For further information about this opportunity, click Apply to be redirected to the Peter Mac Careers page where you can review the position profile. Alternatively, please contact us for a confidential discussion.

 

 

Peter Mac requires its staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this requirement.

 

 

WHY WORK FOR PETER MAC

 

  • Peter Mac offer a range of benefits which support our people both personally and professionally.
  • Our staff benefits include award winning facilities, professional development and events, a health and wellbeing program, flexible work practices and policies and financial benefits such as salary packaging.
  • We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with a disability.

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