The mission of this role is to give direct assistance to the Life Sciences Department Director as Personal Assistant and to help the Director coordinate department-wide actions.
The selected candidate will work within the Life Sciences Department and collaborate with the Life Sciences Coordination Unit, which provides support to the scientific teams in the department in technical management, legal, data management, financial and administrative matters, buildign a bridge between researchers and the central administration to ensure an optimal work environment. They will also work in coordination with some central administration units, such as Purchasing, Finance and Travels.
The Life Sciences Department ( is composed of 6 research groups 5 technical units and one laboratory, covering the main areas of Computational Biology and bioinformatics, including genome analysis and annotation structural bioinformatics, network biology and text mining. The Department hosts the coordination and technical nodes of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB-ISCIII) node of ELIXIR. Overall,



the department has as common goal the technical, computational and scientific challenges in the field of Personalized Medicine.
Key Duties
- Manage the Director's agenda and public profile.
- Organize meetings with internal and external stakeholders, request and prepare documentation, ensuring any briefing materials for the Director are received in a timely manner.
- Management and coordination of the assigned Director's travels. Subsequent preparation of the liquidations of payments with the Finance Department
- Travel management of researchers directly invited/hosted by the Director.
- Organisation of invited seminars (invitations, coordination with Driector's agenda and logistics).
- Translation and proofreading of official documentation.
- Support in other Department's actions.

Requirements Education
- University degree level or equivalent professional experience

Essential Knowledge

📌 Life Sciences Director Assistant (España)
🏢 Barcelona Supercomputing Center
📍 España