This is the laboratory and field supervisor for the EMBEDDEd-NH project. This position is responsible for ordering, inventory, organization, local use, and deployment of consumables and equipment for this project. Supervision includes both molecular laboratory work for all ticks collected in the project, as well as fieldwork collection and environmental ecological analyses. The position includes technical and troubleshooting capacity for molecular laboratory work, and environmental engineering / equipment use, maintenance, and oversight. Additional contributions include geospatial analyses and environmental contaminant distribution.

This position is not required to work during curtailment.

Duties & Responsibilities

Laboratory Organization and Inventory Management (25%)

• Inventory consumable stocks and ordering.
• Equipment use, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Organization of workflows.
• Metadata and pre-analytical data organization.

Molecular Laboratory Supervision and Experiment Execution (25%)

• Supervision and undertaking of substrate characterization, extraction, cataloguing, biobanking.
• Extraction, laboratory experiments, preparation for sequencing.
• Annotation and supervision of data recording.

Fieldwork Supervision and Execution (25%)

• Field equipment ordering, setup, deployment, supervision, and maintenance.
• Fieldwork supervision and execution – tick dragging, HOBO station setup and maintenance, collection box setup.

Data Curation and Analysis (25%)

• Curation, validation, maintenance, and marriage of metadata, field data, laboratory data, and sequence data.
• Data presentation, analysis, and geospatial data assimilation.

Requirements

Minimum Acceptable Education & Experience:

• BS with 7+ years of molecular laboratory experience.
• Nucleic acid extraction from varied substrates.
• Experience running, standing up, and troubleshooting PCR, qPCR, ddPCR, metabardcoding, RT-PCR.
• GIS fluency, with mapping and analyses.
• Environmental engineering experience.
• Technical laboratory and field equipment assembly, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supervising undergraduate and graduate students.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Nucleic acid extraction and quality analysis / validation.
• PCR, qPCR, ddPCR, metabarcoding.
• GIS.
• Statistical analysis.
• Environmental engineering, and equipment deployment and maintenance.
• Student supervision.
• Assay assessment and verification.

Other Requirements:

• DResearch design.
• Laboratory and field equipment customization and fabrication.

Applicant Instructions: 

Applicants should be prepared to upload the following documents when applying online within the My Experience: Resume/CV section of the application: (Maximum of 5 Documents - additional documents can be added to the Application Questions section of the application)

• Resume/CV

Applications that are missing any of the required items may not move forward for consideration. Additional uploaded documents not requested in the position announcement will not be reviewed.

Please be advised that this position is supported by external sponsor funding. As such, continued employment in this role is contingent upon the availability of those external funds. If, for any reason, the sponsor funding is reduced or discontinued, employment may be subject to modification or termination in accordance with applicable policies and procedures. 

The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

EEO Statement

The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or marital status.

Compensation Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed above. Actual offer will be based on skills, qualifications, experience, and internal equity, in addition to relevant business considerations. More information on benefits can be found here: USNH Employee Benefits | Human Resources

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