Junior or Assistant Specialist - Sohal lab

Position Description

Junior/ Assistant Specialist - Sohal lab

The Sohal lab in the Department of Psychiatry is seeking a Junior or Assistant Specialist position. This individual will assist with research in the Sohal lab including both research and lab management activities. Research activities could include mouse behavioral assays combined with physiological recordings and/or optogenetics, stereotactic survival surgeries, perfusions, and histology/microscopy. Lab management tasks include mouse colony management / genotyping / husbandry, ordering supplies, and ensuring protocol compliance.

• Junior Specialist:
  Baccalaureate degree (or equivalent) or at least four years of research experience.
• Assistant Specialist:
  Master’s degree, or a baccalaureate degree with three or more years of research experience.

• Experience with mouse behavioral assays combined with physiological recordings and/or optogenetics, stereotactic survival surgeries, perfusions, and histology/microscopy, and lab management tasks including mouse colony management, genotyping, husbandry, ordering supplies, and ensuring protocol compliance.

Applicants must apply online with a CV. Required qualifications must be met by time of hire. Application materials must list pending qualifications. A reasonable estimate for this position is $55,000 - $70,700.

• Curriculum Vitae - CV must clearly list current and/or pending qualifications (e.g. board eligibility/certification, medical licensure, etc.).

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

UCSF is committed to welcoming and serving all people, honoring the dignity of every individual without preference or prejudice, in support of its public mission and in alignment with our PRIDE values and Principles of Community.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct. “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, or discrimination, as defined by the employer.

• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
• APM - 035:
  Affinity Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment

San Francisco, CA