Job Opening at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Responsibilities

• Perform computational analyses of complex genomics and other ‘-omics’ datasets (sequence alignments, FASTA, SAM/BAM and VCF files, phylogenetic trees, etc), provide synthetic and graphical representations of the results, and interpret the same.
• Make the most effective use of the computational resources on ILRI’s High Performance Cluster. Participate actively in the development of in-house scripts and pipelines to be hosted on BecA’s GitHub account and other ad-hoc storage space. Use and develop Galaxy pipelines whenever necessary.
• Participate in the designing, planning and delivering capacity building activities such as short training workshops, seminars, Bioinformatics Community of Practice, etc.
• Provide informed advice to the Bioinformatics Scientist and the Technology Manager on questions pertaining to the maintenance and development of the bioinformatics platform (on both hardware and software aspects).
• Contribute to the resource mobilisation efforts, be they in human resource (e.g. recruiting external trainers for workshops) or financial resource (e.g. writing grant proposals).
• Support student supervision and academic capacity building activities, especially in the frameworks of the EANBiT and AfriqueOne-ASPIRE initiatives.

Requirements

• MSc in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Molecular Biology or a related field.
• 3 years’ work experience in a bioinformatics position
• High proficiency in the use of Unix platforms (commandline environments, Bash scripting, grep, sed and awk utilities, etc)
• High proficiency in scripting languages (proficiency in R is necessary, plus at least one of the two languages Python and Perl)
• Demonstrated experience in working on an HPC through a job scheduler (e.g. Slurm or Sun Grid Engine)
• Broad knowledge in Genetics, Biotechnology, Computational Biology and their applications. Previous experience with NGS data will be highly appreciated
• Proven ability to work efficiently as part of a group, to propose innovative ideas and to participate in their implementation
• Any teaching/training experience will be highly appreciated

Terms of Appointment

This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position based at ILRI’s Nairobi campus. It is open to Kenyan nationals only. The position is on a 6 Months fixed term

Job Level

This position is at job level 2D and open to Kenyan nationals only. ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; pension, medical and other insurances for ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff.