Laboratory Manager for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW)

The role of the Laboratory Manager is very important to our lab management activities within reNEW, as you will oversee the running of the backbone of wet and tissue culture activities. The overall task is to ensure the smooth daily operations throughout reNEW’s communal laboratory setup. As laboratory manager you will oversee and be part of a team supporting key activities, like instrumentation up-keep/maintenance/replacement, purchasing, central service communications, training around health and safety, and general lab maintenance.

About reNEW

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW is a worldwide consortium with nodes at the University of Copenhagen, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia and Leiden University Medical Centre, Netherlands. Researchers within reNEW addresses fundamental questions in stem cell biology and translate research findings to products that will help patients with incurable disorders such as congenital kidney disorders, diabetes, heart defects, neurological conditions, chronic ulcerative conditions, respiratory diseases, bladder defects and infertility.

reNEW Copenhagen is a vibrant, internationally diverse, and ambitious research center with state-of-the-art facilities located at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The setting is ideally suited for seamless collaboration and access to a large variety of technology platforms within the Copenhagen area as well as within the other reNEW units in Melbourne and Leiden.

For more information regarding reNEW, Copenhagen please see this link: https://renew.ku.dk

Job description

The role of the laboratory manager is to support and enable researchers to perform their work safely and efficiently while ensuring smooth operations within the reNEW laboratories.

The laboratory manager will report directly to the center management and head of staff.

The tasks include:

• Ensuring optimal usage of instruments and laboratories.
• Ensuring that the laboratories are following all legal requirements.
• Communication and training of health and safety rules.
• Arranging procurement and services of common equipment.
• Supporting purchase of common laboratory items, including through contact with suppliers, and general organization of stocks, shipment reception and distribution within reNEW.
• Managing the lab operations team, including task and work assignment
• Collaboration and communication with the laboratory users.
• Collaborate and coordinate with reNEW Technology Platform leads to ensure continuous and smooth daily operations.
• Organisation of laboratory users group meetings.
• Taking part in various meeting within the university (Chemical coordinator, lab manager, etc.).
• Budgeting and reporting of common laboratory expenses and handling of internal cost recovery where applicable.
• Reacting to matters raised by laboratory colleagues and providing guidance and support to address suggestions and incidents.

Your profile

• You have as a minimum a laboratory or university-based education within the field of life sciences, natural sciences or similar.
• You have experience in laboratory management (minimum of two to three years) and people management.
• You have experience in GMO1 laboratory settings, including tissues culture.
• Experience in Kemibrug, GMO2 laboratory, Sharepoint, booking systems, and/or Lab Guru is desirable.
• Experience and training in health and safety rules and regulations is desirable.
• Very good communication skills in Danish and English (written and verbally).
• You are a friendly and open, yet firm and effective communicator across the broad spectrum of scientific employees within an internationally staffed institution.
• You have an efficient and self-organised working style and experience of how to effectively communicate in a multifaceted organisation and smaller task-oriented teams.
• You commit to being physically present and readily available in the lab during working hours

We offer

• A stimulating, challenging and multifaceted research environment
• A combination of active scientific service platforms to interact with, and to develop ideas together to improve our lab for everyone
• Involvement in cutting-edge research in a diverse and multicultural community
• Possibility for continued education and training
• Attractive employment conditions
• Centrally located workplace.

Terms of salary and employment

Your employment will be at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, University of Copenhagen. The position is full-time (37 hours per week) and for 2 years, and it is open for appointment on 15th of November 2024 or as soon as possible.

Employment as Biomedical Laboratory Scientist will be in accordance with the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and Danske Bioanalytikere

Employment as laboratory technician will be in accordance with the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and OAO/HK STAT. The position is placed in salary group 5.

Depending on qualifications a supplement may be negotiated.

Questions

For further information please contact Associate Professor, Mariaceleste Aragona; [email protected]

Application

Please submit your application in English by clicking "Apply now" below.

The application should consist of the following:

• Letter of application/motivation (max 1 page)
• Your CV incl. education, a list of laboratory skills/techniques, previous employments, language skills and other relevant skills
• Copy of relevant certificate/diploma
• List of contact references.

Deadline for application 2nd of October, 2024, 23:59 CET

We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements.

Interviews are expected to be held in the beginning of October.



University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.