Research Associate, Associated Research

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IWK Health Centre

Halifax

CAD 60,000 - 80,000

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Job description

Company : IWK Health

Req ID: 192273
Department/Program: Associated Research, Research Services
Location: Halifax
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly PT long-assignment (60% FTE) until 04/01/2026 x 1 position(s)

Start Date: April 2025
Union Status: Research, Management/Non Union Bargaining Unit
Compensation: $31.8709 - $43.5513 /hour
Closing Date: December 06, 2024 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs.

Promoting an anti-racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.

The Opportunity

Job Summary:
The Research Associate #2 is tasked with managing collaborative and multi personnel translational laboratory projects that involve using complex molecular biological techniques to process and analyze human biosamples for markers of disease.

Responsibilities:

Biosample processing, biobanking, and maintenance of sample logs
Oversight of experimental design
Data generation/compilation/analysis
Attendance at weekly research progress meetings, especially to present results (in both numerical and graphical forms)
Contribution to written drafts (conference presentations, peer reviewed manuscripts) for publication
Contribution to written drafts of grant funding applications
Training and supervision of junior laboratory personnel and trainees at all levels
Coordination of interactions among other research team members
General support of laboratory safety, infrastructure, and reagent/supplies inventory

Hours of Work

8.30 - 4.30, 7.5 hours shift per day

Your Qualifications

Minimum university graduate degree (PhD preferred) in laboratory-focused life sciences program (e.g., Immunology, Microbiology, Cell Physiology, etc.)
Minimum 5 years of practical experience in a life-sciences research laboratory (supervisory experience an asset)
Familiarity with current Microsoft Office and biological statistical software
Up-to-date training in WHMIS and university-standard laboratory biosafety procedures
Familiarity with routine laboratory standard operating procedures
Experience with advanced molecular biological techniques and instrumentation required (especially cellular staining for TCR immunophenotyping, Luminex multiplex cytokine analysis, IFN signature RT-qPCR, RT-ddPCR multiarray miRNA analysis)

Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.

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An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials.

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