About This Role
This is a specialized research support role at a historic biomedical institute. You will be expected to apply computational biology and molecular analysis to infectious disease research, likely contributing to ongoing studies on leprosy, tuberculosis, or other public health priorities. It suits a scientist who is comfortable at the intersection of dry-lab data analysis and wet-lab biological interpretation, and who values contributing to high-impact health research in Ethiopia.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The call for a bioinformatician with a biomedical background suggests the institute is looking for someone who can not only run analysis pipelines, but also understand the biological questions behind the data. The seniority level (5-8 years) implies they want a self-sufficient researcher who can design experiments, troubleshoot independently, and mentor junior staff without needing close supervision.
How to Approach This Application
Your application should highlight specific experience with genomic or transcriptomic data analysis in a biomedical context—mention the tools and databases you have used (e.g., BLAST, Galaxy, R/Bioconductor, or relevant pipelines). Emphasize any previous work on Ethiopian pathogens or collaborations with research institutes, as local context and disease familiarity will be highly valued. Tailor your cover letter to show how your computational skills have directly supported biological discovery or clinical research outcomes.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for an experienced bioinformatician with a solid grounding in molecular biology who is ready to lead data-driven research in a respected national institute. Competition is likely moderate, as the position requires a rare combination of skills and seniority.
Assistant Research on Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology
Job by Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI)
Bioinfomatician with biomedical background
The Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI) was founded in 1970 through the initiative of the Norwegian and Swedish Save the Children organizations seconded by the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia. The Institute got its name from the Norwegian physician, Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen, who first described the leprosy bacillus (Mycobacterium leprae). AHRI reorganized by the decree of the Council of Minister’s Regulation No. 376/2016 as biomedical research, clinical trial and research capacity building under the Federal Ministry of Health. AHRI, over its 50 years in service, is well known for its hub function for skill and technology transfer and partnership embracing research agendas with direct impact in the development and transformation of population in Ethiopia and beyond. The cancer and other Non-communicable Diseases (N C D) Research Division is one of the departments in the institute and currently has different research projects on podoconiosis and cancer and none communicable diseases funded by international partners. Therefore, the Cancer and NCD Division is looking for self-driven, motivated, innovative and energetic researchers to join our team as Research assistant on Molecular Biology/Genomics/bioinformatics
Roles and responsibilities:
- Perform bioinformatics analyses of genomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics data across various research projects within the group.
- Assist in planning and performing laboratory experiments
- Assist in the project management
- Assist in the field task work supervision
- Analyzing and interpreting experimental data
- Providing technical support to other researchers
- Writing reports, reviews and summaries to report to the PI and CO PI
- Writing scientific manuscripts and technical reports and publish in reputable journals
- Keeping up to date with relevant scientific and technical developments relevant to the project
- Liaising with national and international project partners in relation to the project
- Assisting the PI and Co-PI in preparing draft manuscripts and following-up the process of publishing in scientific journals
- Assisting the PI in writing research proposals or grant applications for submission to external bodies
- Develop bioinformatics scripts and pipelines tailored to specific research projects.
- Launch and refine bioinformatics pipelines for use by the scientific community.
- Manage genomics datasets and related clinical metadata, ensuring proper submission to public databases.
- Perform other duties of the PI as required.
Job Requirement
Qualification and Experience:
- Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Computational Science, Biological Sciences, or a related field, with a strong background in biomedical research.
- Over 5 years of research experience in Genomics and Bioinformatics at the MSc level,.
- Worked on pathogen and human genomics
- Desired Skills and Experiences in molecular biology and dry lab
- Experience in molecular biology and genomics laboratory techniques such as isolation and analysis of DNA, RNA, next generation sequencing, or protein samples
- Well versed in library preparations and the use of sequencing machines
- Manage and implement bioinformatics workflows using tools such as Nextflow.
- Work efficiently on high-performance computing cluster servers.
- Possess programming skills in Bash, R, and Python Positions available: 1 (one)
Duty station: Addis Ababa
Salary: as per the organization scale
Terms of employment: one year contract period with full time employment basis with possibility of extension based on performance and budget availability
How To Apply
How to Apply
Interested applicants who fulfilled the above requirements should send the following through ethiojobs.net
- A CV/resume (not more than 5 pages)
- A cover letter (note more than one page)
- A one page table summarizing your educational background, technical skills and competencies to facilitate the screening process
- Provide names of three reference with their e-mail address
- Publications (if any) should be listed in your CV
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