[Rdap] Job Opportunity: Senior Support Scientist (Data Services) - Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine

[Vana, Marcy]

Job Opportunity
Senior Support Scientist (Data Services) - Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine

Position Overview
This position will serve as a member of Bernard Becker Medical Library's Data and Research Computing group, which provides a broad range of educational programs and support services for the research activities of the School of Medicine's faculty, staff, and students. The team consists of library-based scientists who provide introductory training in biomedical research computing (R, Python, cluster computing), deliver educational offerings and support programs in the areas of data management, data sharing, and data reuse, and support awareness, access, and education on a variety of software tools for biomedical data analysis and visualization. In these capacities, the group plays a key role in supporting the medical school's research mission.  This position will focus primarily on education and support relating to data practices and will report to the Head of Data and Research Computing.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities
*            Provide education and training on the composition and organization of commonly used data repositories and introduce methods for leveraging this data for further analysis.
*            Support faculty, staff, and students in the identification of publicly available data relevant for their research.
*            Aid researchers in the sharing of their own data.
*            Stay abreast of evolving data management and data sharing requirements from publishers and funding agencies and assist researchers in these areas when needed.
*            Serve as a campus resource for information and assistance related to the storage offerings for research data provided by Washington University in St. Louis Information Technology.
*            Establish and maintain effective working relationships with research groups to identify areas of interest and address needs related to data management, data sharing, and data reuse.
*            Stay abreast of national and international trends in research data practices.
*            Work with vendors to coordinate licensing and training for library-supported software tools for data analysis and visualization.
*            Serve as a bridge to the more extensive resources and services available from the Institute for Informatics.
*            Participate in library-wide initiatives, programs, and professional development activities.

Qualifications
*            PhD with at least 3 years postdoctoral experience in genetics/genomics, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, computational biology or a related field.
*            Familiarity with biological data repositories and experience with data sharing and reuse.
*            Familiarity with data management and data sharing requirements of publishers and granting agencies.
*            Appreciation for role of metadata and demonstrated experience with technical side of data sharing and reuse.
*            Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, and commitment to professional development.
*            Strong user-focused public service orientation.

Preferred
*            Experience in classroom teaching and/or development of training materials.
*            Experience in consulting with and training scientists and students on the use of information tools in a wide range of scientific disciplines.

Salary and Benefits
Salary and benefits information is available in the full job listing at https://jobs.wustl.edu/ (Job ID: 42143).

To Apply
Please complete an online application at https://jobs.wustl.edu/ (Job ID: 42143).

If you have any questions, please let me know. We look forward to adding a new member to our team!



Marcy Vana, PhD
Head, Data and Research Computing
Bernard Becker Medical Library<https://becker.wustl.edu/> at Washington University School of Medicine
Campus Box 8132, 660 S. Euclid Ave.   |   St. Louis, MO 63110
314-362-2796   |   vanam at wustl.edu<mailto:vanam at wustl.edu>

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