Program Manager, Bioinformatics.ca

**Position: Program Manager, Bioinformatics.ca**
**Site: MaRS Centre, Toronto**
**Department: Adaptive Oncology**
**Reports To: Associate Director, Adaptive Oncology**
**Salary: Commensurate with level of experience**

**Hours: 35 hours/week**
**Status: Full-time, Temporary (2-year contract with renewal option)**

**Bioinformatics.ca** currently hosted at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is seeking a Program Manager to take over leadership and management of Bioinformatics.ca and its Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (CBW) series. As Canada’s national bioinformatics training initiative, this high-profile position involves engaging with key opinion leaders, stakeholders and expert faculty across Canada and beyond to realize CBW’s mission to accelerate the use of bioinformatics as a tool in health and life sciences through education, networking, and outreach. The role involves community outreach and engagement, as well as representing Bioinformatics.ca internationally to ensure it remains globally competitive. This role will champion the Bioinformatics.ca brand and participate in reimagining what Bioinformatics.ca can become over the coming years.

Fully vaccinated is defined as having received all of the required doses of a Health Canada approved vaccine and having received the final dose at least 14 days before your employment start date.

To learn more about working at OICR, visit our **career page**.

**The responsibilities include**:

- Lead, enhance and grow the Bioinformatics.ca brand and activities from a centralized resource into a distributed high impact model.
- Maintain current and develop new Bioinformatics.ca Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops (CBW), monitoring emerging research technologies, and stakeholder and community needs for new training opportunities.
- Manage the logistics and facilitate the delivery of the CBW series across Canada, whether in-person or virtual.
- Maintain Bioinformatics.ca website and brand as the top source for high-quality bioinformatics training materials, workshops, jobs, and resources in Canada. Oversee website upgrades.
- Oversee the Bioinformatics.ca social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and grow the communities engaged to include underserved communities.
- Coordinate an annual educational board meeting with key stakeholders from across Canada, ensuring Bioinformatics.ca accountability, educational leadership and impact.
- Manage the Bioinformatics.ca budget in keeping with stakeholder and OICR fiscal requirements.
- Seek and determine fit of innovative learning and networking approaches to enhance the participant experience at Bioinformatics.ca workshops and expand the bioinformatics community.
- Represent Bioinformatics.ca and ensure competitiveness at the Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET), ISCB and other standard setting or best practice organizations through participation in committees, working groups, and conferences.
- Perform other activities that arise over the course of reimagining what Bioinformatics.ca can become over the coming years.

**Required Qualifications**:

- At a minimum a Master’s degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics or computer science, or recognized equivalent.
- You have excellent English communication skills, written and verbal, both to facilitate effective communications with Bioinformaticsc.ca stakeholders, collaborators and CBW participants.
- You are highly self-motivated, able to work independently, and work well as a part of a team.
- You should be very comfortable facilitating and hosting training events, delivering presentations and workshops to scientific audiences.
- You have excellent organizational and time management skills.

**Bonus (Nice-to-Have) Skills**:

- CIHR, Genome Canada and/or NSERC grant writing knowledge and experience.
- Self-reliance, resourcefulness, and ability to multitask well.
- Team player open to cooperation and collaboration. Building trusting relationships to be able to reciprocally influence contributions is key to the role.
- Excellent computer skills, specifically in Windows, MacOS and Unix/Linux, but also with conferencing and communication apps, as well as spreadsheet, word processing and presentation software.
- Experience with R/Rstudio and GitHub is also an asset.

OICR is a collaborative, not-for-profit research institute accelerating the development of new cancer research discoveries for patients around the world while maximizing the economic benefit of this research for the people of Ontario. We are dedicated professionals who bring expertise to each of our roles. We are looking for individuals who share our values of excellence, innovation, collaboration, impact, responsibility and community.

Launched in December 2005, OICR is an independent institute funded by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and Universities.


**CLOSING DATE: Until Filled**
- The Ontario Instit