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Core Directors are senior-level professionals who oversee and manage the operations of core facilities or departments within an organization, often in research institutions, universities, or large corporations. Their role involves coordinating resources, supervising staff, maintaining equipment, and ensuring the core’s services meet the needs of internal and external clients. Core Directors also play a key role in budgeting, strategic planning, and implementing best practices to support the organization's research or business objectives. They often serve as the primary point of contact for users seeking access to specialized facilities or services.

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Core Directors often encounter the challenge of aligning goals and communication across diverse teams, such as engineering, marketing, and operations. Balancing competing priorities while ensuring that all departments remain focused on the organization's strategic objectives can be complex. Additionally, adapting leadership styles to suit different team dynamics and resolving conflicts efficiently are key aspects of the role. Successful Core Directors foster a collaborative environment by facilitating regular check-ins, clearly defining expectations, and promoting transparency throughout the project lifecycle.

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Ophthalmology Bioinformatics Core Director

Stanford, CA • On-site

Stanford University
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools • 11 - 50 employees
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Re-posted 7 days ago

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Company rating: 7.9 out of 10

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Job description

Job Summary:
Stanford University is seeking a Bioinformatics Core Director in the Department of Ophthalmology to lead data initiatives and collaborate with faculty in Vision Research. The role involves supervising a team, managing data collection and reporting, and contributing to the analysis of genome-wide datasets related to gene expression.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and own organization-wide data initiatives (e.g. models, frameworks, platforms, dashboards).
• Supervise, coach and mentor a high-performing team of analysts.
• Identify, leverage and partner with external firms.
• Prioritize and extract data from a variety of sources such as notes, survey results, medical reports, and laboratory data, and maintain its accuracy and completeness.
• Determine additional data collection and reporting requirements.
• Design and customize reports based upon data in the database.
• Oversee and monitor regulatory compliance for utilization of the data.
• Use system reports and analyses to identify potentially problematic data, make corrections, and eliminate root cause for data problems or justify solutions to be implemented by others.
• Create complex charts and databases, perform statistical analyses, and develop graphs and tables for publication and presentation presentation.
• Serve as a resource for non-routine inquiries such as requests for statistics or surveys.
• Test prototype software and participate in approval and release process for new software.
• Provide documentation based on audit and reporting criteria to investigators and research staff.
• Other duties may also be assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience in a quantitative discipline such as economics, finance, statistics or engineering.
• Ability to direct the work of others, for jobs requiring supervision.
• Relevant subject matter knowledge.
• Substantial experience with MS Office and analytical programs.
• Excellent writing and analytical skills.
• Ability to prioritize workload.
• Experience in advanced software and coding skills for bioinformatics.
Preferred:
• Experience in the generation and analysis of genome-wide datasets, in particular related to the function of transcription factors, promoters and enhancers in a cell-type or pathological state specific manner.
• Experience with RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and similar technologies, both data generation and analysis.
Company:
Stanford University is a teaching and research university that focuses on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. Founded in 1885, the company is headquartered in Stanford, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.

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