About the role:
This new role - Tissue Bank Operations and Partnerships Manager – will be responsible for identifying and securing new service users to enable significant growth of the Imperial College Healthcare Tissue and Biobank (ICHTB) beyond Imperial. Your efforts and technical expertise will help facilitate and enable research by ensuring the ICHTB provides high quality human tissue that meets research needs and with excellent customer service.
What you would be doing:
* Manage the biobanking tissue and blood collection pathways, tissue processing, histology and molecular laboratory services.
* Line manage the technical team.
* Build strong relationships with external academic and commercial users.
What we are looking for:
* Develop a positive rapport with individuals, work collaboratively, and demonstrate strong influencing skills.
* Inspire senior research and NHS clinical staff and management to support the tissue banking pathway and provide excellent customer service to academic and non-academic users of the ICHTB.
* Possess high level technical expertise to manage the laboratory and tissue banking pathways, ensuring high quality banked patient tissue and operation in accordance with regulatory requirements.
What we can offer you:
This role offers variety, challenge, and opportunity for professional growth to the right candidate. It provides an excellent opportunity for someone with histology and/or biobanking expertise and managerial experience who may be looking for a more business development role and the opportunity to help shape a laboratory service for the future.
Further Information
This is a full time, fixed term post for 2 years and you will be based at Charing Cross Hospital Campus.
The ICHTB is a large and diverse biobank regulated by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA). The ICHTB acquires approximately 40,000 samples from around 3,000 patients per year across multiple sites. Around 7,000 samples are issued to projects annually, with around 60 new project applications each year. We aim to expand our service outside of the ICL/ICHT to other academic institutions and commercial companies.
If you require any further details on the role please contact: Dr Leonie Powley - l.powley@imperial.ac.uk.
£56,652 to £61, Professional, Technical and Operational Services; Level 4 (Salary scales)
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