Kelly Services
Location
Bethesda, MD | United States
Job description
Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world. We are seeking a Bioinformatics Training Manager at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD
This is a long-term contract position which offers:
Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package
Optional health, vision, and dental plans
Vacation leave as well as 10 paid federal holidays and 401K plan.
Access to NIH’s unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives
TASKS/SERVICES . The contractor shall:
New function area Develop and lead a cohesive, sustainable bioinformatics training program for intramural researchers at NICHD, working closely with the Office of Education (OE) and the Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core (BSPC).
Prepares and provides educational materials to staff.
Coordinates Bioinformatic training workshops and reports their outcomes.
Develops and assists staff implement policies and procedures related to the organization's Bioinformatic training programs.
Collects, analyzes and creates training program information.
Develops, and assists staff, policies and procedures related to the organizations.
Design and support analysis of questionnaires and surveys..
Coordinate and document training from beginning to completion; monitor and report the status of completion and results attained; provide progress reports.
Collaborate with staff on the planning, implementation, coordination and evaluation of programs and initiatives in the assigned specialty area of training . Develop research new training plans
Develop research new training plans.
Develops and assists staff implement policies and procedures related to the organization's Bioinformatic training programs.
Review and summarize materials and data; gather and coordinate information for review; conduct data entry and file maintenance; edit and/or prepare text, data and charts.
Plan, initiate, monitor and conduct administrative/portfolio analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of the training program in meeting the established goals and evolving training needs within the DIR.
Design and evaluate training workshops, with research /analysis of outcomes.
Lead bioinformatics scientific workshops or symposia to support ongoing training goals.
Evaluates current training programs and determines if changes need to be made.
Identify gaps in existing training programs and provide recommendations for future training efforts.
Evaluate training program activities to identify issues and develop recommendations for improvement.
Develop and implement comprehensive studies of performance measures to evaluate program productivity, develop metrics and milestones to assess progress of the program.
Assists with analyzing current scientific programs and developing and proposing new initiatives.
Contribute to the writing and development of executive summaries and reports to share with key partners.
On behalf of Bioinformatics Training, prepare the Institute’s annual report on program activities; use scientific expertise in health research to identify common themes and cross-cutting science areas.
Meet with supervisory management on a regular basis to provide oral reports on the status of on-going projects and to receive new assignments.
Collaborate with supervisory management on contract management activities associated with the program.
Meet with staff on a regular basis to provide oral reports on the status of on-going projects and to receive new assignments.
Participate and aid in making recommendations and monitoring implementation to improve management and progress of the training program.
Assist supervisory management in analyzing program activities to identify issues and develop recommendations for improvement.
Assist supervisory management in Conducting reviews of relevant workgroup materials; coordinate feedback across team and collaborators within the project; guide updates/enhancements.
Participate and aid in making recommendations and monitoring implementation to improve management and progress of program.
Assist in Developing and updating project plans to accurately reflect milestones and resources for all projects within the program.
Assists in preparing and developing future strategic plans.
Work with staff and trainees to plan and execute training programs related to bioinformatics.
Assist in developing readily available materials to increase awareness about the program.
Develop and implement a bioinformatics training plan that addresses the needs and interests of staff.
Regularly assess the bioinformatics and data science training needs of the intramural program (with OE).
Learn and stay up to date on cutting edge bioinformatics tools, algorithms, software, assays, programming languages, and methodology (with BSPC)
Based on assessment of training needs, develop short courses on relevant material at the appropriate level, taking advantage of existing content where possible and creating new content (with BSPC) when needed.
Organize, coordinate, (with OE) and teach (with BSPC) courses and workshops using best-practices pedagogical methods (for example from The Carpentries). Courses and workshops may include but are not limited to the following: basic, intermediate, and advanced R and Python programming and Bash shell scripting; bulk RNA-seq analysis; scRNA-seq analysis, ChIP-seq analysis, tooling such as RMarkdown, Jupyter notebooks, git, GitHub, Snakemake, Slurm; and/or concepts such as alignment, clustering, linear modeling, experimental design, visualization.
Develop and assist in managing a system for getting feedback from learners, including both immediate as well as longitudinal feedback, and incorporate into future courses.
Coordinate with other bioinformatics and data science trainers at NIH to identify shared challenges and solutions.
Grow and maintain a community of learners, providing support throughout their NICHD career and ideally beyond.
Facilitate troubleshooting and technical support among learners to encourage cohorts to help each other and nurture long-term sustainability.
Present program and/or courses at national education conferences or bioinformatics conferences with education tracks.
Uses scientific expertise to review grant proposals and Interacts with potential grantees to obtain additional information.
REQUIREMENTS . The contractor must have:
PhD in Bioinformatics
Experience with teaching working scientists (instructor training from The Carpentries is a plus)
Very strong communication skills, both oral and written
Practical experience in a wide range of bioinformatics software Extensive experience with R, Python, Bash
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