Team Leader - Diagnostic Mammalian Virology Team

at  CSIRO

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• Provide leadership, direction, and communications to team members necessary to ensure accurate and informed diagnostic testing and reporting, production of reagents and reference materials, delivery of project work and effective team operations.
• Ensure transition of new diagnostic tests from research to routine use, managing test development and validation activities according to guidelines developed by SCAHLS and WOAH.
• Develop and maintain a network of professional contacts with staff in Australian state jurisdictional, university and commercial laboratories that have responsibilities for emergency animal or zoonotic disease response management and associated laboratory testing.
• Collaborate with other ACDP scientists to publish results of investigations and service activities in official reports, industry meetings and scientific publications, and manage publication plans in line with research project delivery.
• Working with line management to develop teamwork planning objectives that are aligned with group and performance goals and related KPIs for service provision and R&D activities.
• Contribute to the maintenance of laboratory practices and standards to meet the QA/QC requirements for testing and reporting outputs under NATA/ISO17025 and BSI/ISO9001 accreditation standards.
• Provide expertise and meet responsibilities of quality systems Technical Manager for Diagnostic Mammalian Virology.
• Maintain current knowledge on the major transboundary and emergency animal diseases of international or zoonotic concern, including their aetiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and control, and on modern and emerging testing technologies, and apply them to DSR projects, as appropriate.
  Location: Geelong - Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) VIC
  Salary: AU$126k - AU$148k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
  Tenure: Specified term of 3 years / Full-time
  Reference: 96317