ICIPE Post-Doctoral Fellow- Bioinformatics Jobs in Kenya

ICIPE Post-Doctoral Fellow- Bioinformatics Jobs in Kenya

Overall Purpose of the Job

The job holder will offer icipe Bioinformatics Leadership, Data Analysis support, and capacity building.

Specific Duties

Provide support for Bioinformatics data analysis within icipe (genomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics data).

Build Bioinformatics capacity within the center by developing and maintaining analysis workflows,
establishing infrastructure, and training programs.

Develop and maintain bioinformatics software for different research projects, as well as adapt
existing code and pipelines and provide programming support.

Assist the system administrator with the maintenance of the Bioinformatics server.

Partner with other organizations that advance bioinformatics capacity in Africa.

Supervise students and interns on relevant projects.

Provide support to resource mobilization and proposal development.

Establish active Bioinformatics and computational biology research programs that are relevant to icipe’s mission.

Support analysis of project next-generation sequencing (Illumina & Oxford Nanopore) data.

Support Linux environments, Python, R, git version control, and best practices for reproducible

Responsible for the executed activities and outputs, with significant decision-making.

Mentor and train staff, develop programs and plan their execution.

Supervise staff and students.

In charge of budgets and monitoring. Provide information and data to other units.

At least

two peer-reviewed papers submitted per year.

Contribute fundraising for projects as PI and co-applicant, with at least 2 concepts/proposals
submitted every year.

Contribute to internal and external relations with stakeholders in relation to the scope of their activities.

Requirements/Qualifications

PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Genetics, or Genomics.

Experience gained in bioinformatics research and training groups.

Have extensive knowledge of bioinformatics approaches for analysis of omics data.

At least 2 years’ experience working in bioinformatics research (with publication record) and training groups.

Experience in Linux environments, Python, R, git version control, and best practices for reproducible bioinformatics analysis

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; ICIPE Post-Doctoral Fellow- Bioinformatics Jobs in Kenya

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