Senior Scientific Curator

Elsevier | SciBite; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier | SciBite is seeking a Senior Scientific Curator to join their established team. This role focuses on creating high-quality ontologies and vocabularies, improving customer experiences, and collaborating with various teams on innovative solutions. Candidates should have a strong background in life sciences and be proficient in scientific curation within a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Annual Profit Share Bonus

Generous vacation entitlement

Maternity, Paternity, and Family Care leave

Internal communities and networks

Employee Assistance Program (global)

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in a Life Sciences subject required.
• Experience with biomedical ontologies and curation in a pharma/clinical environment preferred.
• Strong presentation and customer interaction skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional customer support and bespoke solutions.
• Update and improve SciBite’s scientific vocabularies.
• Research and develop vocabularies in life sciences.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem identification

Creative solutions

Presentation skills

Ability to work under pressure

Education

PhD or MSc in Life Sciences

Tools

Python

Git/GitHub

Web Ontology Language (OWL)

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About Team:

The SciBite Scientific Curation team supports customers with bespoke curation and ontology solutions and develops and manages the content that feeds into the SciBite technology stack. We collaborate closely on projects with multiple teams across SciBite-Elsevier to deliver training, content and ideas to solve key challenges for our life-science customers.

About Role:

The Scientific Curation Team at SciBite is fundamental to SciBite’ s technology. The team produces high quality ontologies and curated vocabularies which feed into our technology stack. We continually explore novel solutions and technologies to develop our core products and offer bespoke solutions for customers. We are looking for a talented individual to join our welcoming and established group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working to deliver exceptional customer support. The successful candidate will work with teams across Elsevier and partner companies to deliver bespoke customer solutions.
• Updating and continual improvement of SciBite’ s key scientific vocabularies.
• Researching and developing vocabularies and ontologies in new areas of life science and beyond.
• Demonstrating and training customers on use of SciBite tools.
• Writing blogs, reports and papers, and giving presentations at public meetings and workshops.

Requirements:

Qualifications/Skills/Experience:

• PhD or MSc in a Life Sciences subject
• Strong interpersonal skills, and confident in representing SciBite at customer and public meetings
• Experience of building and working with biomedical ontologies
• Experience curating biological/clinical data within a pharma/drug discovery/life sciences environment
• Familiarity with major bio and chemo-informatics public databases and ontologies
• Bring the right ‘Can Do’ approach to fit our company culture
• Experience of working independently and under pressure
• Ability to identify problems and apply creative solutions
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills

Additionally, any experience in the following would be advantageous:

• Experience in customer-facing or Professional Services roles
• A scripting language such as Python, accessing RESTful APIs, use of regular expressions
• Using Git/GitHub
• Use of Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Exposure to text-analytics and text-mining and an understanding of how these can aid drug discovery and development
• Interest in Machine Learning / AI

Why Join US

A career at SciBite, Elsevier comes with the chance to help tackle real-world challenges of some of the biggest companies in biomedicine and beyond. Coupled with that comes competitive salary, a fantastic benefits package, and the chance to work in an environment that encourages innovation and personal development. Perhaps most importantly, working as a SciBite Scientific Curator offers a chance toenjoy working in a friendly, talented team where your contributions really make a difference.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Internal communities and networks
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Employee Assistance Program (global)

About the Business

SciBite from Elsevier is passionate about making scientific content accessible, harmonized and inter-operable. We develop data-first, award-winning, semantic analytics software for those who want to get more from their data. Developed by a team of global experts using the latest in GenAI and large language models (LLMs) technologies, we’re simplifying the way Scientists access, curate and apply data through our suite of user-friendly solutions.

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