Biorepository Technician-Research

Inova's Research Team is looking for a dedicated Biorepository Technician to join the team! This position will be Full-Time Day Shift: Monday-Friday, Times may vary

Inova is consistently ranked as a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and more!

Biorepository Technician Job Responsibilities:

• Ensures that all areas of the Biorepository are following all required regulatory and accrediting agencies.
• Maintains a climate of compliance/quality within the biorepository to assure highest quality of laboratory processing.
• Offers consultations for new projects and act as subject matter expert for project planning.
• Designs and executes laboratory experiments, be responsible for data generation, assay optimization/validation.
• Develops and manages policies, procedures, processes, and protocols for biobanking services that support the research community including tissue handling, quality control (QC) work, and access to biospecimens.
• Works actively with study teams across all Service Lines to support their needs with biobanking services.
• Responsible for receiving, unpacking, accessioning, aliquoting and inventorying biospecimens.
• Establishes and updates various databases for clinical sample tracking.
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in related field (or relevant experience in lieu of degree equivalent to 4 years)
• Years of Experience: 2 years of experience in a biorepository or laboratory
• Certification Upon Start:
  
  
  
  • Pertinent research certification and human research protections training(Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative Program , National Institute of Health) 1 month upon hire.
  • Basic Life Support. New hires within 3 months. Current TMs within 6 months of 9/12/2023