The Life Sciences Department from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center is establishing a new team on Health Data Research within the Life Sciences Department that will collaborate closely with the INB/ELIXIR-ES unit. The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) is the major bioinformatics platform in Spain, and the Spanish representative in the European bioinformatics infrastructure ELIXIR. INB is fully oriented to complete a solid integration with International Bioinformatics and Health Research Data infrastructures, including the ELIXIR consortium.
This new team has its focus on the massive amount of health data available for research in the last years and the recent efforts at national and European levels to tap into those data to benefit patients. Using such data helps scientists to understand diseases and health conditions better and provides new ways of identifying patients at higher risk. It also helps to prevent illness and to provide better treatments. This, in turn, improves the health services' efficiency, optimising their resources where they matter the most.
The selected candidates will have responsibility for ensuring the accessibility, usability, integrity, and security of biomedical data throughout its lifecycle in different projects, beyond the individual project level to include the management of data assets across different research communities.
Women candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
Key Duties
- Participate in data management planning for research projects, including data storage, backup, and archiving strategies.
- Facilitate data sharing and collaboration among research teams, both within the organization and with external partners.
- Implement and promote best practices in data stewardship and management, ensuring data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).
- Develop and maintain data governance policies and procedures.
- Provide training and support to researchers on data management best practices and tools.
Requirements
- Education
-- MSc in data science, bioinformatics, or a related field.
-- Alternatively, demonstrated experience in data management and stewardship.
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
-- Experience in data stewardship and research data management.
-- Familiarity with FAIR data principles and best practices in data quality management.
-- Familiarity with data analysis with R, Python or SQL
-- Understanding of the regulatory requirements related to biomedical data management.
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
-- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- Competences
-- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
-- Ability to work independently and within a team.
Conditions
The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
Starting date: asap
Applications procedure and process
All applications must be made through the Application form at the bottom of the BSC website www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/60624lsinbre2 and contain:
- A full CV in English including contact details
- A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered
In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process. After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview. A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment@bsc.es
Deadline
The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired. Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.