Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics (Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit) at icipe - African Insect Science for Food and Health

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 bioinformatics analysis are required.
• 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.

Reporting

• This position reports to the Head of Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit (MBBU).