Job Summary
- $104,663 - $112,344 + super + salary packaging
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 15th Oct 2024
- Melbourne > CBD & Inner Suburbs Melbourne
An exciting opportunity is available for a Research Officer - Immunology to join the Cellular Responses to Disease & Vaccination team at Burnet!
In this role you will undertake research on the germinal centre response to malaria to inform vaccine development, according to agreed work plans. This includes laboratory research, data analysis, project management tasks, contributing to writing reports and publications, communicating findings with the study team, and presenting research findings in relevant workshops and meetings. In this role some travel to international sites will be required. Methods and approaches that may be used include standard and specialised immunological assays, cell culture, flow cytometry, transcriptomics, multi-parameter imaging and analysis and data analysis.
You will also:
Refer to the attached position description for full details. This is a Full Time, 3 year fixed term position. You will have flexible working hours as well as part time working from home options.
The following criteria are essential requirements:
We want you to have a successful and meaningful career at Burnet and are committed to providing a supportive workplace environment for all our people. You will be part of a collaborative culture where progressive leadership, innovation, respect, and excellence are valued. Join a team of talented individuals who are passionate about what they do – achieving a more equitable world through better health.
We offer:
Burnet Institute is a leading Australian, unaligned, not-for-profit, organisation passionate about social justice, equality and evidence-based research.
Burnet Institute brings together a highly diverse skill base, with more than 400 staff and students working across cutting-edge research and projects to address some of the most relevant global health issues. Institute-wide interdisciplinary health programs Disease Elimination, Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness, and Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health are at the heart of our daily decision making. Harnessing our international and local field presence, our laboratories, and our mixed development and research cultures drives a greater focus on the most relevant health issues and achieves a greater impact as a result.
Whilst our headquarters is in Melbourne, Australia, we also have offices in Papua New Guinea and Myanmar, and are actively involved in research and public health programs throughout Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and Africa. Burnet is the only unaligned organisation in Australia that has dual accreditation with both the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
At Burnet, we foster a diverse and inclusive culture. We want our people to feel like they belong and are free to be themselves at work. We have an active Gender Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (GEDI) Council that works to promote and improve gender equity, diversity and inclusion across the Institute, by developing and implementing strategies informed by both national and international best practice and staff input. Burnet holds an Athena SWAN Institutional Bronze Award from Science in Gender Equity (SAGE). If you have a reasonable adjustment, support, or access requirement at any stage of the recruitment process, we encourage you to let us know by emailing [email protected] using the subject line: Research Officer - Immunology enquiry via EthicalJobs.
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As part of our commitment to gender equity, we have included a question in the application process on gender. This will allow us to monitor and report on gender in relation to our recruitment process.
Burnet is a child safe organisation. The successful applicant will be required to apply for a National Police Check and/or Working with Children. Current Australian working rights are required for all applicants.