Biology Instructional Lab Technician

Western Washington University with over 15000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school is nationally recognized for its educational programs students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham Washington a coastal community of 90000 overlooking Bellingham Bay the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes Bremerton Everett Port Angeles and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes such as being named one of the top public masters-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success increasing our Washington impact and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship research and creative activity. Westerns greatest strength is the outstanding students faculty staff and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can pursuit of this excellence individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff faculty administration student and external constituents. Further individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic societal environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

This position provides technical support for lab courses in Biology with an emphasis on Molecular/Cellular Biology Genetics Microbiology or Biochemistry.

This position works both independently and collaboratively with a community of faculty graduate students and staff to support high-quality university education and general departmental operations.

Responsibilities include supporting biology courses across the curriculum supervising undergraduate laboratory assistants managing course budgets curating instructional lab manuals maintaining and training others on sophisticated scientific equipment and laboratory safety procedures and policies.

As a member of our team the lab technician helps support the efforts of all constituents in the everyday operation of the department stockroom and research and teaching labs.

This is an in-person role at WWUs main Bellingham campus and is a 40-hour/week full-time ten-month position. During the academic year (September to June) this position works eight (8) hours per day and during July and August there is the option of a few work hours each week. To provide gradual onboarding the successful candidate will work up to 10 hours per week in the first summer.

The State HR classification for this position is Instructional & Classroom Support Technician 4.

• Bachelors degree in Biology or related field with three years of experience in instructional support or equivalent
• Proven ability to perform essential job functions including physical demands with or without reasonable accommodation
• Proven experience performing biological laboratory techniques and safety procedures
• Evidence of strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a friendly and cooperative manner with students staff and faculty at all levels of the organization and in contacts with the public
• Commitment to supporting the departments efforts to create an inclusive supportive and welcoming community for students staff and faculty
• Willingness and demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise independent judgement
• Demonstrated excellence and clarity in verbal and written communication skills
• Hold a valid drivers license or the ability to obtain one prior to start date.

• Experience as scientific support staff at an educational institution
• Strong familiarity with upper-division Biology university lab instruction
• Experience with a broad array of biological lab equipment techniques and skills including those used in Molecular/Cellular Biology Genetics Microbiology or Biochemistry
• Familiarity with purchasing and maintaining inventories of scientific equipment and supplies
• Experience or training associated with improving accessibility diversity equity and inclusion (ADEI)
• Proficiency in MS Office and ability to learn technical software

Application materials should address your experience related to the position responsibilities and the required and preferred qualifications.

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