Genetics Analysis Specialist - Halifax, Canada - IWK Health Centre

IWK Health Centre

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Halifax, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Description

Company :

IWK Health**:

Req ID:157462

Department/Program:
Laboratory Medicine, Quality, Patient Safety and Patient Experience

Location:
Halifax

Type of Employment:
Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)

Start Date:

ASAP

Union Status:
Non-union, Management/Non Union Bargaining Unit

Compensation:
$38.7875**:

- **$ /hour

Closing Date:
August 8, 2023 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region.

We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other's talent and celebrate our successes.

We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs.

We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

The Opportunity:

IWK Health, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a tertiary care health center and the laboratories provide genetic services for the Maritime Provinces.
The Clinical Genomics Division provides fullservice integrated molecular and cytogenetic testing. In collaboration with the Maritime Medical Genetics Service and other clinical partners, the Division ensures timely and clinically actionable results required for appropriate patient care. The Genomics Lab also fosters positive relationships in education and research. The Clinical Genomics service has built partnerships with many research groups and provides teaching opportunities for Dalhousie University medical school students, residents, and fellows, as well as clinical placements for students in Genetic Technology training program.
The laboratory specialist will be accountable to the Chief of IWK Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.

Responsibilities:

Manage the regular review, processing, interpretation, and analysis of genetic variants.
Participate in development of variant annotation pipelines and draft reporting templates.
Develop clinically usable reports in partnership with medical staff in the Genomics Laboratory to provide data for the generation of clinical reports.
Monitor the scientific literature for publications related to genetic variation.
Maintain laboratory internal databases of genetic variation and supporting clinical and scientific literature databases.
Help create, manage, and extend analysis pipelines for human next generation sequencing (NGS) data, with a focus on variant detection in a wide variety of genetic disorders.
Evaluation of available analysis programs and tools, design and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), protocols, and reports for the use of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in clinical testing.
Analysis of NGS data, pipeline evaluation and assessment, as well as the use and maintenance of a robust provenancetracking solution for NGS data (chain of custody for all analysis steps).
Manage relevant computing resources, such as computing and data storage clusters, in partnership with the IWK Information Technology Group.
Participate in genetic test development and development and implementation of new technologies.
As a member of the Clinical Genomics team, the Genetics Analysis Specialist will work in a professional, collegial manner with technologists, the Clinical Genomics manager, and lab scientific and medical staff.
Collaboration with colleagues in Maritime Medical Genetics and Nova Scotia Health are also key to success in this position.
The Genetics Analysis Specialist is a key role, supporting the Division with technical expertise and mentorship, and helping to provide collaborative service to medical staff, maintain a highquality Molecular Genetics service and bring new testing online to match clinical needs.
The Genetics Analysis Specialist is expected to participate in continuing education initiatives as well as scientific manuscript drafting.

Hours of Work:

37.5 hours per week

Your Qualifications:

Experience working with human genetics data in research or clinical setting (preferred)
Experience in research related to human genetics or experience with genetic variant curation and interpretation of clinical relevance
Experience writing and editing scientific materials for external audiences
Data management expertise (including scientific, genetics/genomic and/or medical data)
Strong written and verbal communication, collaboration, and problemsolving skills
Proven excellence working in a team environment with strong interpersonal, communication and conflict resolution skills
Demonstrated ability to collaborate, develop and m