Staff Associate II

ABRF; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ABRF, in collaboration with the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative Flow Cytometry core in New York, is seeking a Staff Associate II to support the core’s operations for hundreds of users from numerous labs. You will operate and maintain complex instruments and contribute to research by enabling successful experiments.

The role includes training users, providing experimental design consultations, maintaining equipment, and troubleshooting issues while communicating with researchers and performing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least 3 years hands-on flow cytometry experience and understanding of cell and molecular biology.
• 4 years of experience are recommended.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain complex research instrumentation.
• Assist users to design experiments.
• Train users on instrumentation to ensure experimental success.
• Troubleshoot instrumentation issues.
• Troubleshoot users' experiments on the instruments.
• Troubleshoot data analysis.

Skills

Flow cytometry

Instrumentation operation

Training users

Experiment design support

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Flow cytometer

Job description

Description

The Staff Associate II will support the operations of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative Flow Cytometry core, which works with over 600 users from 200 labs. The candidate will contribute to research by operating complex equipment for experiments, training users, providing experimental design consultations, maintaining equipment, troubleshooting experiments and equipment, communicating with researchers, performing routine lab maintenance.

Responsibilities:

Functional Knowledge

• Operate and maintain complex research instrumentation 10%,
• Participate in research by assisting users to designe xperiments. 20%,
• Train users on intricacies of instrumentation to ensure experimental success. 10%

Problem Solving

• Troubleshooting problems with instrumentation. 5%
• Troubleshooting users' experiments on the instruments. 5%
• Troubleshooting data analysis. 5%

Decision Making/Autonomy

• Collaboratively make decisions about instrument settings and parameters to ensure experimental success. 5%,
• Collaboratively make decisions about instrument performance to ensure instrument issues are addressed. 5%

Technical Expertise

• Perform experiments on the instrumentation. 10%,
• Troubleshoot issues on instrument. 10%,
• Assist researchers to design and troubleshoot experiments. 5%

Communication

• Communicate with researchers about technical topics;communicating with researchers about group training sessions. 10%

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 3 years hands-on flow cytometry experience. Understanding of essential concepts of cell and molecular biology.
• 4 years of experience are recommended