BACKGROUND:
The University of Hawai`i John A Burns School of Medicine is recruiting for one full-time Associate or Full Professor in Bioinformatics. For a full description of the positions, please visit the Work at UH website at http://www.pers.hawaii.edu/wuh/search.aspx, search Position Number 0086194.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The Office of Biostatistics and Quantitative Health Sciences, in the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawai"i (UH) at Manoa, conducts quantitative health sciences research and is dedicated to biomedical team science. The senior bioinformatics faculty member will develop independent academic scholarship and will work in close collaboration with other members of the Office to foster comprehensive research design, data management and analysis research and collaboration related to commonly used "omics", imaging, and other big data sets.
• Teach bioinformatics related courses to graduate and medical students and residents.
• Provide workshops, presentations and tutorials in bioinformatics to interdisciplinary and translational research groups.
• Supervise independent study activities.
• Advance a scholarly area of bioinformatics knowledge in the health sciences.
• Work with biomedical research leaders and key stakeholders across the health sciences campus to prioritize and optimize bioinformatics core collaborations.
• Establish scientific collaborations with a broad community of biomedical researchers.
• Serve as a liaison with the bioinformatics community on the UH Manoa main campus, interfacing with UH Cyber infrastructure.
• Lead and collaborate on grant applications related to bioinformatics projects.
• Serve on University committees; render service to the professional or lay community relevant to academic specialty; and perform related tasks as assigned.
• Lead a collaborative professional bioinformatics team available for investigator consultation following best practices including understanding and fitting solutions to needs, estimating efforts and skills, contributing high value to proposals and creating high-quality deliverables for study project reports and publications.
• Develop a bioinformatics core team over the next several years, which will:
• Develop custom and streamlined analytics and data management applications to facilitate large-scale "omics" data analysis; machine learning methods to infer genotype-to-phenotype predictive models; analysis of quantitative imaging data.
• Provide bioinformatics collaborations to investigators across the health campus, including pre-experiment consulting, application and training on the use of bioinformatics core software tools, and integration of user-generated and large-scale public data sets.
• Maintain well-curated, highly structured, transparent omics, imaging and clinical data resources.
• Establish and maintain standards for structured software & systems engineering, including requirements, design, code, test, quality, configuration & release management and project management
• Assess, test, and implement best practices for "omics" and imaging data analysis
• Develop tools to integrate commonly used open source bioinformatics software applications and to establish best practices and standards for genomic, imaging, and clinical data representation and analysis.
• Other scholarly duties as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:
Associate Professor Minimum Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in bioinformatics, computational biology, or related disciplines, plus at least (3) years of experience in managing a bioinformatics core facility
• Evidence of proficiency in teaching
• A minimum of four years of full- time college or university teaching at the rank of Assistant Professor or equivalent, with evidence of increasing professional maturity
• Strong, high-quality peer-reviewed publication record
• Basic understanding of wet-laboratory research associated with bioinformatics
• Scholarly achievement judged competent and adequate for the rank in comparison with peers active in the same field at major research universities
• Demonstrated ability and record of successfully competing for federal grants, either independently or as part of a collaborative team
• Experience overseeing the generation, management, and analysis of "omics" data
• High performance computing experience in a Unix/Linux environment
• Demonstrated experience in consulting on a wide variety of biomedical research studies
• Continued evidence of participation in the scholarly and academic affairs of a university or other appropriate organization, or in an appropriate professional society or organization, or in other appropriate job-related service activities
• Demonstrated ability to plan and organize assigned activities, including the supervision of work of assistants when appropriate; ability to serve as a role model for students and junior colleagues
• Poise and good address for meeting and conferring with others

Professor Minimum Qualifications:

• PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology, or related disciplines, plus seven (7) years of experience in managing a bioinformatics core facility
• Evidence of excellence in teaching
• Minimum of four years of full- time college or university teaching at the rank of Associate Professor or equivalent, with evidence of increasing professional maturity
• Research productivity, which has resulted in significant recognition by the national or international community of scholars active in the same field
• Demonstrated experience in consulting on a wide variety of biomedical research studies
• Participation in the scholarly and academic affairs of a university or other appropriate organization, or in an appropriate professional society or organization, or in other appropriate job-related service activities
• Demonstrated ability to plan and organize assigned activities, including the supervision of work of assistants when appropriate
• Ability to undertake a variety of assignments within the University
• Demonstrated capacity for leadership in the department and scholarly discipline
• Poise and good address for meeting and conferring with others

PREFERENCES:
Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience in running a wet laboratory associated with bioinformatics and familiar with in vitro and/or in vivo models
• Experience with drug discovery and development
• Experience in working with a biostatistics core facility in an academic medical center setting
• Active grant support as a principal investigator

TERMS:
Monthly Type: 9 or 11 Month appointment
Tenure Track: Tenure
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent

LOCALE:
Honolulu, HI, USA

COMPENSATION:
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

HOW TO APPLY:
Submit a cover letter indicating how you satisfy the minimum and desirable qualifications, current curriculum vitae (showing extramural funding record, if any), names and contact information (including email addresses) of 5 professional references, and college and graduate school transcripts (copies are accepted for evaluation, however, official originals are required upon hire) to qhsjobs[at]hawaii.edu. Only complete applications will be considered.

DEADLINE:
Continuous - application review begins October 01, 2015

POLICY:
The University of Hawaiʻi is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, gender identity and expression, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, genetic information, marital status, breastfeeding, income assignment for child support, arrest and court record (except as permissible under State law), sexual orientation, domestic or sexual violence victim status, national guard absence, or status as a covered veteran.

Employment is contingent on satisfying employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; reference checks of previous employers; and for certain positions, criminal history record checks.

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