Bioinformatics Technical Community Engagement

**Context And Mission The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) is the major bioinformatics platform in Spain and the Spanish node of ELIXIR. ELIXIR (European Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information) is a pan-European organization founded in 2014 which aims to integrate and harmonize European bioinformatics infrastructures. ELIXIR coordinates the participation of more than 22 countries; engages with other strategic European initiatives and projects, e.g. ESFRI, Research Data Alliance, EUDat and EGI; promotes specific training activities and workshops on ELIXIR resources, partners with industry, and play a key role in shaping the bioinformatics landscape. Within ELIXIR, the INB is responsible for the bioinformatics infrastructure offered by Spain and, therefore, should guarantee its alignment with the strategic areas put forward by ELIXIR.

Since 2018, the INB has two overarching objectives: deepen the alignment of its activities with ELIXIR, and increase the translational impact of INB actions towards the Spanish National Health System (SNS). For the latter objective, the INB has created and supports TransBioNet (Translational Bioinformatics Network), which aims to structure, bring together and work with bioinformatics groups in healthcare settings with a particular focus on the Health Research Institutes (IIS) recognized by the ISCIII.

The INB coordinates the Data Science programme within the Spanish Infrastructure for Personalized Medicine associated with Science and Technology (IMPaCT in Spanish), which aims to establish an interoperable framework for biomedical data integration and analysis, addressing questions from clinicians through the implementation of computing systems in health environments. This programme will prepare clinical data in Spain for secondary use, including medical imaging, structured and non-structured clinical data and genomics, considering all the legal provisions for each possible use and setting. This programme will involve the liaison with diverse stakeholders, including hospitals, the ISCIII, companies in the biomedical sector, the Spanish Medicines Agency and biomedical researchers, among others. All developments will be aligned with the European initiatives in the area, including those from ELIXIR, 1+Million Genomes, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and data-sharing projects such as FAIR4Health, HealthyCloud and TEHDAS.

**Key Duties

• Organise and participate in technical meetings and follow-up across projects and initiatives where the INB participates.
• Work towards the visibility of the INB activities in the context of ELIXIR platforms, communities and focus groups.
• Organise local and national training events and disseminate others from elsewhere that may interest the local and national bioinformatics communities.
• Communicate scientific and technical contributions from INB to the wider public.

**Conditions

• The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
• We offer a full-time contract, a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
• Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
• Starting date: 15/April/2023 (or as soon as possible)

Education

• MSc degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Bioinformatics, or a related field.

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

• At least 1 year of professional experience with a similar role.
• Previous experience in coordinating training courses in the bioinformatics area.
• Excellent command of social media to communicate scientific outputs.
• Command of graphic design, photography and/or video editing tools.
• Good understanding of the Spanish and European ecosystem of stakeholders in the Life Sciences research community.
• Previous experience in the organisation of research-related events

Additional Knowledge and Professional ExperienceFluency in English and Spanish, written and spoken.

• CompetencesExcellent report-writing and editing skills essential.
• Strong personal soft-skills sets: Communicative, enthusiastic, highly collaborative, proactive, self-driven.
• Willing to travel occasionally.
• Used to working autonomously. Highly organised.