About the Role
The Integrated Omics Core is seeking a strategic leader to provide oversight for its activities, ensuring alignment with the mission to generate, integrate, and translate multi-omics data into clinical and public health applications. The role involves directing laboratory operations, managing resources, and driving innovative research across multiple omics platforms.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight for all Integrated Omics Core activities, ensuring alignment with QPHI’s mission.
- Direct and lead laboratory operations both technically and operationally, establishing functional procedures, work systems, and robust quality control measures to maintain internationally accredited standards.
- Oversee lab operations and management functions to ensure effective coordination of sample receipt, retrieval, processing, storage, and data generation to meet research and clinical timelines.
- Plan, monitor, and manage annual CAPEX, OPEX, and human resource requirements across the Integrated Omics Core, ensuring cost efficiency, sustainability, and compliance with QF/QPHI financial policies.
- Develop and implement policies, procedures, and guidelines in accordance with international best practices, ensuring compliance with biosafety, bioethics, and regulatory requirements.
- Drive the integration of omics research outputs with clinical initiatives, collaborating with clinical, informatics, and translational medicine teams to maximize health impact.
- Represent QPHI at national and international forums to promote its omics capabilities, advocate for collaborations, and showcase research outcomes.
- Lead the development and deployment of new platforms in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, ensuring QPHI remains at the forefront of innovation.
- Ensure effective risk management, business continuity planning, and implementation of corrective actions across laboratory and omics operations.
- Establish and monitor strategic KPIs and performance metrics across omics functions, analyzing data to identify trends, drive improvements, and resolve operational issues.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders—including QF entities, HMC, Sidra, MoPH, academia, and industry partners—to build synergies, manage partnerships, and support translational research.
- Perform other reasonable tasks as assigned by supervisor.
Minimum Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- PhD in a relevant biological or clinical science or Medical Doctorate (MD) with relevant experience.
- 8 years of relevant full-time work experience in a biomedical/medical or healthcare field, 3 of which at a supervisory level.
- Solid background in laboratory and genomics.
- Personnel management experience.
- Outstanding organization and time management skills, as well as interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent writing skills with the ability to draft and edit various reports and communications, articulate ideas clearly and concisely, and explain complex scientific concepts to non-scientists. Arabic proficiency is an advantage.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications.
