Genomics User Engagement Lead

Black Canyon Consulting LLC; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Paid holidays

Vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Black Canyon Consulting LLC is seeking a Scientific User Engagement Expert to support the modernization of one of the world’s largest public repositories of high-throughput sequencing data. The role focuses on engaging researchers, data submitters, developers, and other technical users through webinars, workshops, codeathons, scientific forums, and conferences.

The position will work with government leads, product teams, and SMM experts to gather input, edit materials, and move deliverables

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific, technical, education, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• At least three years of experience in a user-facing setting for scientific engagement or education.
• Experience planning and facilitating workshops, codeathons, webinars, conferences driven by community needs.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, writing, editing, and project coordination skills.
• Ability to translate complex scientific topics for diverse user groups and coordinate input from multiple experts.

Responsibilities

• Identify topics and opportunities to educate the genomics community on best practices for SRA.
• Plan, develop, and coordinate scientific user engagement activities such as workshops, webinars, forums.
• Identify user groups and coordinate participation by researchers, developers, institutional partners, and technical experts.
• Develop marketing copies, agendas, demos, notebooks, presentations, and peer-reviewed manuscripts.
• Capture discussions, decisions, technical findings, and follow-up actions and deadlines.
• Support government leads and subject-matter experts during engagement activities.
• Coordinate the development of user guidance, training resources, reports, and technical documentation.
• Organize authoring and review processes, including contributor coordination and deadlines.
• Draft or revise materials with expert review and government approval.
• Track participation, satisfaction, and adoption; communicate outcomes to product teams.

Skills

Facilitation

Public speaking

Technical coordination

Writing & editing

Project coordination

Workshop facilitation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific/technical/education field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Black Canyon Consulting LLC is seeking a Scientific User Engagement Expert to support the modernization of one of the world’s largest public repositories of high-throughput sequencing data. The role focuses on engaging researchers, data submitters, developers, and other technical users through webinars, workshops, codeathons, scientific forums, and conferences.

The position will work with government leads, product teams, and SMM experts to gather input, edit materials, and move deliverables