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At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary
This is a Research Assistant position within Sekhon Laboratory in the Division of Critical Care in the Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia. The incumbent will support research and administrative activities, contributes to team collaboration, and assists with projects as needed.

Organizational Status
The Research Technician will assist the Principal Investigator and lab members with experiments and day-to-day lab activities. The individual will interact closely with members of the research group including graduate and undergraduate students; UBC and department staff and administrators; and collaborators.

Work Performed

• Assists with knowledge translation duties including website and social media
• Maintains research related records and databases, entering data according to established protocols
• Attend weekly lab meetings to discuss work progress.
• Assist graduate students with their projects as needed.
• Carries out any other related duties as required in keeping with the qualifications and requirements of positions in this classification
• Perform other administrative/clerical duties as required.

• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and work experience in a research and hospital environment and a minimum of two years of related experience is preferred
• Research experience in immunomodulation for cardiac arrest patients is an asset.

• collection and isolation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from human study participants in a critical care setting
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• collection of serum and plasma from human study participants in a critical care setting with subsequent ELISA-based analyses for circulating cytokine quantification

• Ability to work both independently and within a team environment, exercising sound judgment and decision-making.
• Attentive to detail, with the ability to work quickly and accurately.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities, multitasking and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to exercise tact and discretion when handling sensitive and/or confidential matters.
• Effective oral and written communication, organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills.

• High degree of thoroughness, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Ability to exercise tact and discretion.
• Coursework in and/or experience with quantitative research methods is an asset.