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City of Hope , where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
Reporting to the Chief of Staff of the Henderson Biorepository, the Biorepository Data Analyst supports end-to-end human clinical biospecimen inventory operations. You'll partner with biorepository staff, researchers, vendors, and Research Informatics to strengthen data quality, streamline workflows, and expand system capabilities so biospecimens are received, tracked, reported, and shipped accurately across sites
As a successful candidate you will: Biorepository Data Activities: - Own LabVantage (COH biospecimen inventory tracking) and/or other Biobanking LIMS features; help implement the selected system at all COH locations (travel may be required).
- Serve as COH's technical representative to the LIMS vendor (LabVantage or other proprietary biobank system).
- Train and onboard researchers using the inventory system for laboratory biospecimen tracking.
- Be knowledgeable about the service and cost recovery software, iLab.
- Design efficient receiving and inventory processes with biorepository staff; generate shipping manifests for biospecimen shipments.
- Enhance barcode scanning at receipt; design interfaces to liquid handling systems and automated freezer storage units; create new biorepositories in the inventory system for researchers.
Research Informatics Interfaced Activities: - Partner with Epic software staff to improve communication between Epic and the biospecimen inventory system; with the Chief of Staff, collaborate with Honest Broker staff to improve biospecimen queries.
- Inform Research Informatics on new users and iLab-related workflow enhancements at an agreed cadence; prepare and execute weekly, monthly, and annual metrics/status reports; monitor data and provide dashboards and updates; validate user requirements as software iterations are built.
Your qualifications should include: - Must have at least a bachelor's degree in computer science or a relevant field; 3 additional years of experience plus the minimum experience requirement may substitute for minimum education.
- 3+ years of experience in managing data operations within a biorepository and/or supporting biorepositories.
- Experience with Biobank LIMS or laboratory operations, including workflows, data management, or quality/compliance processes as related to biospecimen life cycle management.
- Experience in Software Development.
Preferred qualifications: - Project Management Certificate (PMC) III or higher.
- Programming skills in languages such as Python, R, or Perl.
- 4+ years of experience as a data analyst, preferably in a research/academic environment.
- Familiarity with genetic testing results.
- Experience with searching large clinical oncology data sets.
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE
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