Senior Scientific Associate (Fixed Term) (Internal Candidates Only)
Prof. Greg Hannon, senior group leader and CRUK Cambridge Institute Director is seeking a highly motivated, organised and initiative-focused senior scientific associate. This role will provide project and line management, administrative support and help to manage lab finances and operations. They will provide the critical interface between research and administrative processes within the lab.
Prof. Hannon and his laboratory are internationally recognised for their contributions to small RNA pathways, cancer biology and mammalian genomics. Coupled to this, Prof. Hannon also has a long history of collaboration and technological innovation, with several large multidisciplinary international projects (e.g., CRUK Cancer Grand Challenge: IMAXT, Wellcome Leap Delta Tissue, RADNET and Wellcome Discovery). The Hannon lab is a large lab of approximately 40 individuals with ranging levels of seniority and a research administration team. The role holder would be responsible for interacting across the entire team. This role will be highly supported both internally by Prof Hannon, research team leads, and the research administration team but also at an institute level through the multiple teams that act on behalf of all research groups (e.g., finance, grants, HR, core facilities, floor lab managers). The holder of this role may also line manage more junior lab management staff.
The team is looking for an individual to lead laboratory operations across the entire group to an exceptional standard. To do this, it is essential that the holder of this role has experience working within an academic research laboratory and has sufficient scientific knowledge to grasp the scientific aspects across multiple projects. Experience working with collaborators, material transfer agreements and other contracts, as well as sending/shipping samples is highly desirable.
With large research groups such as this, it is vital that this role holder has outstanding interpersonal skills and has a positive, flexible, and diplomatic approach to demanding situations. This role will involve communication across the entire research group and therefore will require excellent team working and communications skills. Due to the nature of the role, we would expect this individual to be innovative, independent, and confident in their own decision making and highly organised. This will ensure that the laboratory environment is always clean, well-organised and safe.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 1 years in the first instance.
Closing date: 28th July 2025
Interview date: 1st August 2025
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