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Full-time, fixed term (6 month maternity cover) post, based in Edinburgh
Salary £45712 (pay award pending) plus generous holiday entitlement, Civil Service pension and other benefits.

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) are looking for a Bioinformatician to provide fixed term maternity cover for six months.  

We are seeking to recruit someone educated to PhD level with a strong focus on genomics, statistics, or computational science. 

You will provide data analysis support across our research projects which will include genome assembly, population genomics and phylogenomics in a wide range of plants.   You will maintain RBGE pipelines and workflows for handling high throughput sequence data and support students and staff, helping to develop and apply computational and statistical methods to plant biodiversity genomics science.  You will manage access to external server facilities such as the CropDiversity server. Working closely with RBGE's Technology team, you will optimise and manage RBGEs internal server facilities. 

You should have experience of genomics informatics including WGS, transcriptomics, genome assembly, or phylogenomics.  You will be proficient in scripting in bash, R and Python for writing and troubleshooting custom NGS pipelines.  Ideally, you will have some experience in managing servers and working with HPC and virtual machines.  You will have experience in teaching and communication of bioinformatics.  Experience working with non-model plant sequence data and a wide-ranging knowledge of NGS wet lab work, and biodiversity genetics/genomics are also desirable. 

To apply please email recruitment@rbge.org.uk with:
•    Your CV
•    A covering letter outlining the skills, knowledge and experience you’d bring to the post
•    A completed equal opportunities questionnaire: EOQ Form 

Closing date:                         Wednesday 30 April 2025 (midnight)
Interview date:                      Mid May 2025
Recruitment information:   Job Description and Person Specification

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been shortlisted. No recruitment agencies please.