Research Assistant (Re2)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant tickets

Private health insurance

Relocation support

Job summary

Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Barcelona is seeking an experienced administrative coordinator within the Life Sciences department. You will support the Principal Investigator, manage administrative tasks, and help ensure project execution aligns with strategic goals.

You will assist with resource planning, coordinate meetings, liaise with researchers, legal services, and external collaborators, and help maintain documentation and communication across multiple partners.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating and managing research projects.
• Familiarity with funding mechanisms, grant writing, and project proposals.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.
• Bioinformatics background is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Support the Principal Investigator by managing administrative and technical tasks, ensuring efficient project execution and alignment with strategic goals.
• Assist in planning resource allocation and tracking the progress of research projects involving multiple partners.
• Act as a liaison between the PI and BSC legal services, researchers, and external collaborators to facilitate communication and coordination.
• Organize and participate in project meetings, teleconferences, reviews, and other relevant events, ensuring effective follow-ups and documentation.
• Maintain communication with project stakeholders, including participation in regular meetings and discussions to ensure alignment with project objectives.
• Provide essential administrative support of TechBioLab members to ensure the laboratory operates smoothly and efficiently.

Skills

Coordination of research projects

Grant writing knowledge

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

University Degree (Life Sciences or IT advantageous)

Job description

This position is at Barcelona Supercomputing Center The selection process will be entirely managed by Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

• About BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain.

It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe.

The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress.

BSC combines HPC service provision and R engages with other strategic European initiatives and projects, e.g. ESFRI, Research Data Alliance, EUDat, and EGI; promotes specific training activities and workshops on ELIXIR resources, partners with industry, and plays a key role in shaping the bioinformatics landscape.

Since ****, the INB has two overarching objectives: to deepen the alignment of its activities with ELIXIR, and increase the translational impact of INB actions towards the Spanish National Health System (SNS).

For the latter objective, the INB has created and supports the Translational Bioinformatics Network (TransBioNet), which aims to structure, bring together, and work with bioinformatics groups in healthcare settings with a particular focus on the Health Research Institutes (IIS) recognized by the Carlos III Institute of Health (ISCIII).

The INB also coordinates the Data Science programme within the Spanish Infrastructure for Personalized Medicine associated with Science and Technology (IMPaCT in Spanish), which aims to establish an interoperable framework for biomedical data integration and analysis, addressing questions from clinicians through the implementation of computing systems in health environments.

This programme will prepare clinical data in Spain for secondary use, including medical imaging, structured and non-structured clinical data and genomics, considering all the legal provisions for each possible use and setting.

This programme involves the liaison with diverse stakeholders, including hospitals, the ISCIII, companies in the biomedical sector, the Spanish Medicines Agency and biomedical researchers, among others.

All developments will be aligned with the European initiatives in the area, including those from ELIXIR, 1+Million Genomes, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health and data-sharing projects such as FAIR4Health, HealthyCloud and TEHDAS.

The INB manages a portfolio of bioinformatics resources, including platforms, databases, individual tools and web-services.

This portfolio, known as Service Delivery Plan (SDP), constitutes the scientific-technical contribution of Spain to ELIXIR.

The candidate will join a dynamic Life Sciences department team, working in the highly cooperative, multidisciplinary, distributed context of ELIXIR and INB (Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute/ELIXIR-ES) and related national initiatives.

Key Duties

• Support the Principal Investigator (PI) by managing administrative and technical tasks, ensuring efficient project execution and alignment with strategic goals.


• Assist in planning resource allocation and tracking the progress of research projects involving multiple partners.


• Act as a liaison between the PI and BSC legal services, researchers, and external collaborators to facilitate communication and coordination.


• Organize and participate in project meetings, teleconferences, reviews, and other relevant events, ensuring effective follow-ups and documentation.


• Maintain communication with project stakeholders, including participation in regular meetings and discussions to ensure alignment with project objectives.


• Provide essential administrative support of TechBioLab members to ensure the laboratory operates smoothly and efficiently.

Requirements

Education University Degree (some relation with Life Sciences and/or IT will be an advantage).

Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience

• Experience in coordinating and managing research projects, including administrative and technical support roles.


• Familiarity with funding mechanisms, grant writing, and project proposal preparation in national and international research programs.


• Proven ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.

Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience

• Background in bioinformatics is an advantage.


• Experience in developing project technical specifications.


• Experience coordinating research proposals and projects funded by the European Commission's Framework Programme, the Spanish Plan Estatal, or bilateral contracts with companies.

Fluency in English and Spanish is essential, both written and spoken.

Competences

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Ability to understand scientific literature and software documentation.


• Strong organizational skills, ability to work autonomously, and take initiative.


• Capability to represent the team in international project meetings.


• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.


• Ability to support others, engagement and community building.

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department We offer a full-time contract (35h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona Starting date: 16/10/2026

Development of the recruitment process

The selection will be carried out through a competitive examination system ("Concurso-Oposición").

The Recruitment Process Consists Of Two Phases

• Curriculum Analysis: Evaluation of previous experience and/or scientific history, degree, training, and other professional information relevant to the position.


• 40 points


• Interview phase: The highest-rated candidates at the curriculum level will be invited to the interview phase, conducted by the corresponding department and Human Resources.


• 60 points

A minimum of 30 points out of 60 must be obtained to be eligible for the position.

The recruitment panel will be composed of at least three people, ensuring at least 25% representation of women.

In accordance with OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for each vacancy at the beginning of the process.

At a minimum, a personality questionnaire as well as a technical exercise will be conducted during the process.

The panel will make a final decision, and all individuals who participated in the interview phase will receive feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.

At BSC, we seek continuous improvement in our recruitment processes.

For any suggestions or comments/complaints about our recruitment processes, please contact ******.

For more information please follow this link.

Deadline

The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired.

Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.

OTM-R principles for selection