Research Officer – Royal Children’s Hospital

• Join our team based in Parkville at the prestigious Royal Children’s Hospital
• Enjoy a competitive salary ($104,000 per annum + superannuation)
• Full time contract until June 2025

What’s in it for you?

• Maximise your pay through salary packaging including entertainment and novated leases
• Enjoy flexible working options
• Work in a supportive and energetic environment with our growing team
• Opportunity to grow and develop within the role
• Make an impact and contribute to Australia’s largest child health research institute

The opportunity:

Join our dynamic Health Informatics Team as a skilled Research Officer! The Health Informatics Group is at the forefront of statewide vaccine safety surveillance, together with SAEFVIC (Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination In the Community). As a vital part of the epidemiology and informatics teams, we report to the Department of Health, Victoria, and nationally on AEFI trends and potential signal detections.

The Research Officer (Machine Learning) will play a key part in contributing to the areas of vaccine safety and child health informatics. Your responsibilities will involve health informatics research facilitation with internal and external researchers and include supervision of students where relevant. The role will also be actively engaged in relevant grant funding applications which is integral to the success of our research. You will also work closely with the Informatics Lead to deliver research outcomes under the guidance and towards the overarching vision of Group Leader Prof Jim Buttery.

This is a full-time contract position, extending until the end of June 2025, with the possibility of extension. If you’re ready to contribute to cutting-edge research in vaccine safety and health informatics, apply now!

Your responsibilities include:

• Providing machine learning expertise and supervision, especially in the area of social media;
• Joining forces with the Group Leader and Informatics Lead to conduct and support research into public health and child health informatics;
• Contributing to design, implementation and use of database / cloud storage platforms and visualisation tools for patient data, statistics and other information for reporting, trending and troubleshooting;
• Supporting and progressing transformation of the teams research projects using data and business intelligence;
• Strengthening our high caliber, competitive research.

About you:

• Post-graduate qualification in machine learning or similar
• Strong programming skills and experience in Natural Language Processing and Machine learning methodologies
• Confidence in using statistical tools to interpret data sets
• Experience working on a cloud-based data platform such as Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge of SQL query and DAX
• You will have a proven track record creating documents, dashboards and visual reports to identify trends and patterns that are valuable for diagnostic and predictive analytics efforts.
• Combined with a background in statistical and data mining methods, and a demonstrated ability to use them to answer research questions and drive outcomes.
• Ability to work with loosely defined problems, handle ambiguity well, with a practical and output orientated mindset.

Who we are

At Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, we share a powerful vision; to re-imagine the future of child health. We are the home to many life-changing scientific discoveries. We are renowned for our cutting-edge focus on early interventions, improved diagnosis, prevention, and development of potential cures. Our success is founded on a philosophy of collaboration through a multi-disciplinary approach to solving the toughest questions in child health. Murdoch Children’s is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity, equity and respect that celebrates and values the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our people. We strive to foster a positive working environment that is underpinned by equal opportunity for all and consideration for the diverse voices of our people and the communities we serve. Murdoch Children’s is a proud member of the Australian Network on Disability and is a committed subscriber to Science Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) and its principles.

For more information, please refer to the position description. Any specific questions related to this position should be directed to Professor Jim Buttery via [email protected]  using the subject line: Research Officer – Royal Children’s Hospital enquiry via EthicalJobs.

To be considered, applicants should submit:

• Resume

We welcome all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, abilities, religions and sexual orientations in our workplace and encourage talented people of any identity to apply to our vacancies. We will provide reasonable adjustments in our recruitment process and in the workplace, please contact the People Leader listed above if this is needed.

Please note, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

A position description is attached.