Team Leader in Bioinformatics @ The RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies

job details:

1. Oversee, manage and promote research activities described in the [Research Field] section.
2. Strongly promote professional growth of your supervised team members.
3. Input and leadership in planning of large scale NGS projects with respect to experimental design and analysis strategy.
4. Develop bioinformatics tools for novel technologies based on NGS.
5. Working collaboratively with wet and dry teams within the center and around the world.
6. Manage budget and acquire external funds.
7. Carry out management work for the center/division (committee work, events, outreach activities, etc.).

Qualifications

1. PhD holder in an area relevant to the [Research Field] with more than 5years of work experience in a relevant field.
2. Deep expertise and a wealth of experience to carry out the research work described under [Research Field].
3. Managerial/subleader experience and the necessary leadership and management abilities to manage a research laboratory and direct laboratory staff, etc.
4. Experience acquiring external funding (Kakenhi, etc.).
5. Ability to smoothly communicate, coordinate and collaborate on work with persons of differing nationalities both in and outside the lab.
6. First/last author on papers in Science, Nature, PNAS and other high Impact factor journals in the following areas within the past 5years.
   • Systems biology and transcriptional regulatory network prediction
   • Long non-coding RNAs
   • Large scale transcriptome analysis Integration of large scale sequence datasets
   • Cross species sequence or network comparison
   • Matched genome-transcriptome studies including eQTL identification, GWAS
   • Machine learning and pattern recognition
   • Promoter architecture and motif finding
   • Bioinformatics and computational Biology
7. Professional abilities in English (participate in research discussions, write research papers, document submissions, etc.).

Work location

RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (Yokohama Campus)
1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan

Salary and benefits

Terms of contract

• Full-time position with an annually renewable contract.
• The initial term of the contract shall be until March 31, 2015.
• Thereafter, RIKEN may renew the contract annually based on necessity and a performance evaluation and when both parties agree to the conditions.
• RIKEN will decide whether to enter into a new contract on the basis of the employee's abilities, work load, work record, work attitude, progress of the project or projects in which the employee is involved at the time of termination of the original contract, and on the basis of RIKEN's situation at the time.
• A new contract will not be entered into after March 31, 2018.

Salary

• Salary is determined annually on the basis of the employee’s experience, abilities and research results. Commuting and housing allowances will be provided according to RIKEN regulations and social insurance applies (health insurance, pension insurance, worker’s accident compensation insurance, unemployment insurance, etc.).
  Mandatory membership in the RIKEN Mutual Benefit Society (RIKEN Kyosaikai).

Holidays

• Saturdays and Sundays, Japanese National Holidays, Year-end and New Year (Dec.29-Jan.3), and RIKEN Foundation Day (4th Monday in October).

Others

• Other provisions are in accordance with RIKEN regulations.
• RIKEN has a gender equity program with various measures to create a workplace where both men and women are able to give full rein to their talents and abilities.
  http://www.riken.go.jp/en/careers/working-at-riken/benefits/
• Eligible for an exemption from repayment of Category 1 scholarship loans provided by the Japan Student Services Organization before fiscal year 2003, and will be eligible to apply for MEXT Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) and other external funds.

Application and required documents; deadline

• Please provide the documents indicated below as PDF files and send them to the E-mail address indicated in “Inquiries / Contact Information”- [CLST-recruit[at]yokohama.riken.jp]. (Please replace [at] with ”@”. )
• Please write “Application Documents; [GIAT-1401] CLST/DGT–Team Leader” in the subject line.

Documents to submit

1. CV with photograph and E-mail address. (Please indicate your desired position – (Team Leader) and open call ID [GIAT-1401] on the upper right of the 1st page of your CV. )
2. List of publications (articles, reviews and books), presentations and others
3. Principle papers (Up to three. On the list of publications, circle the papers you are sending and write the number of citations at the time of application submission).
4. Brief description of previous research and achievement (two A4-size pages)
5. Brief description of future research plans (one A4-size page)
6. List of competitive external funds obtained (ex., Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research <KAKENHI>; indicated whether you are the representative researcher or the collaborator)
7. One letter of recommendation from your current supervisor, as well as letters of recommendation from two persons who work outside of RIKEN

* A recommendation letter should be addressed to “Director of the Center for Life Science Technologies” and include the recommender’s name, affiliation, position, telephone number and E-mail address.
* If the person providing the recommendation prefers to send the recommendation letter directly, it can be sent to RIKEN, by E-mail at [CLST-recruit [at] yokohama.riken.jp]. （Please replace [at] with”@”.） Please write “The recommendation letter for (name of applicant)” in the subject line.

Notes:

• CV should be in English (or Japanese and English when the applicant is Japanese) and other documents should be in English.
• Application documents will not be returned.

Deadline

• Until the position is filled

Handling Personal Data

• Submitted documents are strictly protected under the RIKEN Privacy Policy and will be used only for the purpose of applicant screening. Personal information will not be disclosed, transferred or loaned to a third party under any circumstances without just cause.

Selection Process

• Selection will be made based on an application screening and interviews.

Start of Employment

• December 1, 2014 or later (negotiable)

Inquiry / Contact Information

• Any questions about this position should be sent to the E-mail address given below. Please write “[GIAT-1401] Application for CLST/DGT” in the subject line.

Destination for application; Inquiry about application (documents)

Recruiting staff for RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies
Administrative Division, RIKEN Yokohama Branch
CLST-recruit[at]yokohama.riken.jp
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Inquiry about research content

RIKEN Life Science Technologies Planning Office
clst-jobs[at]riken.jp
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Read more /Apply

http://www.riken.jp