Core Responsibilities:
1. Financial Management: Oversee annual lab budgeting, fund allocation, and reimbursement processes, ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
2. Equipment Procurement Coordination: Manage end-to-end procurement of lab equipment, including needs assessment, vendor negotiations, order tracking, and quality inspection.
3. Lab Safety & Training: Develop and update lab safety protocols, conduct quarterly safety training (chemical handling, biosafety, and emergency drills).
4. Task Assignment & Supervision: Oversee the timely preparation of research reports working with group members and the PI.
5. Animal Protocol Compliance:
- Lead the design and ethical review of experimental protocols for rodent (Rodent) and non-human primate (NHP).
- Monitor regulatory updates to ensure full compliance with guidelines.
6. Website development:In charge of lab website development and content updates, integrating research and resource-sharing features.
7. Research Outreach Strategies: Organize annual lab open-house events, draft press releases for key findings, and manage social media promotion.
8. Candidate Prescreening: Support the PI in preliminary screening of postdoc applicants.
9. Oversee Facility Maintenance: Oversee and assist with routine equipment inspections and coordinate professional repairs or preventive maintenance.
10. Miscellaneous Duties: Handle ad hoc tasks assigned by the PI and participate in cross-departmental meetings.
Qualifications:
1. PhD degree in a scientific discipline (e.g., biology, chemistry, neuroscience) preferred.
2. Minimum 3-year working experience in laboratory management (preferably across chemical and neuroscience labs).
3. Proficiency in equipment maintenance and compliance protocols.
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills; fluency in English and Chinese.
5. Strong attention to detail, problem-solving, and multitasking abilities.
6. Proactive, trustworthy, and adaptable to a diverse, fast-paced environment.