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About the Role

The Research Assistant provides essential technical and operational support to a research laboratory or group, enabling high-quality medical research and optimizing productivity through technical expertise and efficient resource management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct experiments and analyses, including tissue culture, genotyping, and routine assays, while establishing and maintaining robust methods and protocols.
• Review current protocols and relevant literature to identify opportunities to improve, optimize, or implement new research techniques.
• Provide technical advice to researchers within the group regarding specific research methods, instruments, and analysis tools.
• Ensure all research data is accurate, high-quality, and conforms to good scientific practice, ensuring it is accessible to other researchers as required.
• Communicate experimental results to researchers and collaborators through written reports and effective visual formats.
• Assist in the preparation of research papers and contribute content to grant applications and research proposals.
• Train students, postdocs, and peers on data collection, specialized instruments, and laboratory safety protocols.
• Take responsibility for own professional development by attending workshops and seeking to learn new techniques to support the group’s evolving research needs.
• Work effectively as a reliable and approachable member of the research team, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Manage the group’s daily operations, including the coordination of consumables, samples, and equipment maintenance.
• Manage internal communications, such as scheduling team meetings and research presentations.
• Manage research data and outputs to ensure compliance with open access requirements of funding bodies and publishers.
• Balance the competing needs and timelines of multiple research projects within the lab and with external collaborators to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate scientific and professional integrity at all times, acting as a role model for ethical behaviour.
• Contribute to the wider institute community by participating in committees, outreach projects, or donor activities.
• Comply with Garvan’s workplace policies, especially the Work Health & Safety (WHS) Policy, and work in accordance with the WHS management system.
• Proactively identify, assess, and report operational, financial, and safety risks associated with the duties of this role.
• Adhere to the organisation’s Risk Management Framework, ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with established policies and procedures, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by suggesting mitigation strategies for identified hazards or inefficiencies.

Requirements

• Bachelors’ Degree in Science or Medicine (preferably with Honours)
• Relevant experience (at least 1 year) in cancer cell biology or immunology
• Experience with animal models of disease
• Experience with processing human samples
• Experience with cell biology, immunofluorescence, imaging, flow cytometry
• Molecular biology skills
• Ability to rapidly learn new techniques
• Results-oriented
• Excellent time management and ability to prioritise tasks
• Display innovative and proactive abilities
• Comfortable with moderate decision making
• Strong computing skills including basic bioinformatic analysis, particularly with regard to RNA-seq methodologies (Desirable)
• Expertise/knowledge in the field of cancer immunology or tumour microenvironment (Desirable)
• Only applicants with full working rights in Australia are eligible to apply for this role.

Skills

• Tissue culture
• Genotyping
• Routine assays
• Scientific communication
• Data integrity
• Mentorship
• Training
• Team collaboration
• Operational management
• Lab coordination
• Project delivery
• Basic bioinformatic analysis
• RNA-seq methodologies
• Cancer immunology
• Tumour microenvironment

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• 2 year fixed-term contract with possibility to extend
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Up to $80,000 (depending on experience)

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

Salary/Compensations

• Up to $80,000 (depending on experience) + 14% super + salary packaging

Benefits

• Generous salary packaging to save you income tax on your wages thereby boosting your monthly take home pay (max. $15,900 general expenses + $2,650 meals/accom)
• Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
• Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
• Flexible work arrangements e.g. start / finish times
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for both parents including paid superannuation
• A range of additional leave types to meet your personal needs including cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave
• Discounted Health Insurance
• Lifestyle discounts with our community partners

About the Company

• Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision.
• We are proud to be one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded MRI’s.
• Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.
• We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.

Equal Opportunity

• Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
• We are always looking for culture ‘add’, not culture ‘fit’ and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively.