Junior or Assistant Specialist - Nowakowski lab

The Nowakowski lab is looking for motivated individuals to join the team at the UCSF Mission Bay campus. As a research scientist, you will join a rapidly evolving team to develop tools and technologies for studying brain development for the NIH-funded BRAIN Initiative and Chan-Zuckerberg Human Cell Atlas projects, among others. Your responsibilities will include but will not be limited to designing, developing, and optimizing molecular tools for studying development of the cerebral cortex, and scalable molecular tools for studying psychiatric disease candidate mutations on brain development. You will be training people how to use equipment and deploy technologies across projects within the laboratory, and across the collaborating groups.

Required Qualifications:

• Specialists appointed at the junior rank must possess (or in process of obtaining) a baccalaureate degree (or equivalent degree) or at least four years of research experience (e.g., with instrumentation and research equipment, social science research methods, or creative activities).
• Specialists appointed at the Assistant rank must possess (or in process of obtaining) a Master's degree (or equivalent degree) or a baccalaureate degree with 3 or more years of research experience.
• Applicants must have obtained the degree requirement for the Specialist rank by the time of hire.
• Applicants' materials must list current and/or pending qualifications upon submission.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, and communication skills are expected, as well as attention to details and high organizational, documentation and time management skills.
  
• We are looking for candidates who can work independently and are self-motivated but are also able to excel in a highly collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prefer degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, or a related field.
• At least one year of working with a cellular, tissue or animal model of brain such as brain organoids is highly encouraged.
• Expertise in molecular biology, cloning, and viral tool design is encouraged.
• Experience in fluorescence microscopy (such as confocal), in situ hybridization, sequencing library construction are highly encouraged.
• Some experience in Next-Gen Sequencing and bioinformatics is encouraged.

See Table 24B for the salary range for this position. A reasonable estimate for this position is $51,300 - $65,900.

Please apply online at https://aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05116.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.
* "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.
* UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000385/SVSH
* UC Anti-Discrimination Policy: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination
* APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-035.pdf