Hi All
Please see below for a placement opportunity. Due to the timeline unfortunately imposed by the funding scheme, you would need to be available very soon and already have the right to work in the UK. Ideally you would be based in Cambridge for at least some weeks but there will be travel involved to some or all of the Biomaker Challenge nodes in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa and Ethiopia.
Please share with anyone you think might be interested in the role.
Jenny
The Global Challenges Research Fund is supporting a pump-priming programme to take the Biomaker Challenge to centres in Africa. Biomaker is an interdisciplinary programme that brings together multiple teams to build low-cost sensor devices and instruments for biology (https://www.biomaker.org). The Biomaker Africa programme is co-organised by the Synthetic Biology Strategic Research Initiative, the BBSRC-EPSRC OpenPlant, Centre for Global Equality and OpenBioeconomy Lab in Cambridge. We are looking for a Challenge Coordinator for 12 weeks during May-Jul 2019 to take responsibility for coordinating participating teams and managing online communications and social media. This includes organising and publicising events and highlighting interesting projects online through writing and multimedia presentations, coordinating training and connecting teams who might be able to share knowledge and skills.
The appointee will form part of a team to deliver a set of informational and training materials for biologists, engineers and interested public (e.g. the Maker community). You will also blog posts, photos, videos and social media content about Biomaker Africa The position will provide an opportunity to travel to sites in Africa to help organise starter and training events, and to build a wide range of contacts in this area.
Skills gained include: coordination, planning and organisation; networking skills between academia and industry, including sponsor liaison; communications inc writing, photography, video production and social media; public speaking and presentations; introduction to technologies such as 3D-printing, electronics and DIY approaches to scientific instrumentation. The placement would suit someone with an interest in electronics, biology, maker technologies e.g. 3D printing. Experience in other coordination and communication roles (paid or voluntary) is desirable.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 31 July 2019 in the first instance.
More information: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/21196/
For enquiries, please email Alexandra Ting at synbio@hermes.cam.ac.uk.