Senior Scientific Curator

RELX; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join SciBite's Scientific Curation team as a Scientific Curator, where you'll support innovative biomedicine solutions through expert curation and ontology development. This role offers a chance to impact significant scientific challenges while enjoying a competitive salary, robust benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Annual Profit Share Bonus

Generous vacation entitlement

Option for sabbatical leave

Shared parental leave

Qualifications

• PhD or MSc in Life Sciences is required.
• Experience in building biomedical ontologies and curating biological data is essential.
• Strong communication skills to represent SciBite at meetings.

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional customer support through bespoke solutions.
• Update and improve key scientific vocabularies.
• Research and develop new vocabularies and ontologies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Creativity

Presentation skills

Python

RESTful APIs

Education

PhD in Life Sciences

MSc in Life Sciences

Tools

Git/GitHub

Web Ontology Language (OWL)

Job description

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Are you passionate about turning complex science into curated clarity?

Ready to lead the charge in scientific curation that fuels innovation?

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 seeking a talented individual to join our welcoming and established team.

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 the 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 in 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, and the 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 a 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 to enjoy 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 organisation. 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 during 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