Location: | England |
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Salary: | £31,000 pa Dependant on skills and experience |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 3rd June 2024 |
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Expires: | 2nd August 2024 |
Reports to job title: Facilities Lead
Location: CABI
Contract: Maternity Leave Cover to March 2025
About Us
The UK Agri-Tech Centre is a new organisation launched on 1 April 2024 and created from three of the original Agri-Tech centres.
Utilising our UK-wide assets, world-class facilities and expertise, our new organisation is a gateway for funding programmes, such as the Farming Innovation Programme and Horizon Europe, and provides benefits to the whole supply chain, the UK economy and beyond.
We offer a complete life cycle of support, driving Agri-Tech innovation and adoption through world-class facilities, expert knowledge and business support accelerating progress.
We strengthen the connections between science, business, and funders to accelerate research and development tackling the industry’s most critical challenges such as climate change, labour availability, disease mitigation and environmental sustainability.
Job Purpose
The key function of this role is to support UK Agri-Tech Centre partner organisation (CABI) at its Microbiological and Molecular laboratories in Egham. The successful applicant will join a team of specialists and support staff involved in the identification, testing, characterisation and preservation of microorganisms.
Specific responsibilities will evolve as the research outcomes are evaluated and you will have the opportunity to shape this as a critical member of the team.
Main Duties
The principal duties within the role will be to provide technical support across the UK Agri-Tech Centre’s capabilities located at CABI and to act as a liaison between the UK Agri-Tech Centre and CABI, for operational reporting and knowledge exchange purposes. Specific responsibilities are expected to be diverse.
The technical role will deliver support to culture sales and deposits relating to the UK Agri-Tech Centre’s National Reference Collection of Crop Pests through the web portal and involve extraction, culturing, sub-culturing and cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen. It will also incorporate isolation and screening of potential biopesticides. Finally, support will be given to the Horizon Scanning capability by processing content for the factsheet app, analysis of the use of the data/content/apps and generating blog content.
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Please submit a CV to Hannah.Wallace@agri-epicentre.com via the ‘Apply’ button above.
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