Senior Scientific Curator

Senior Scientific Curator

Are you passionate about turning complex science into curated clarity?

Ready to lead the charge in scientific curation that fuels innovation?

About Team:

The SciBite Scientific Curation team supports customers with bespoke curation and ontology solutions and develops and manages the content that feeds into the SciBite technology stack. We collaborate closely on projects with multiple teams across SciBite-Elsevier to deliver training, content and ideas to solve key challenges for our life-science customers.

About Role:

The Scientific Curation Team at SciBite is fundamental to SciBite’s technology. The team produces high-quality ontologies and curated vocabularies which feed into our technology stack. We continually explore novel solutions and technologies to develop our core products and offer bespoke solutions for customers. We are seeking a talented individual to join our welcoming and established team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working to deliver exceptional customer support. The successful candidate will work with teams across Elsevier and partner companies to deliver bespoke customer solutions.
• Updating and continual improvement of SciBite's key scientific vocabularies.
• Researching and developing vocabularies and ontologies in new areas of life science and beyond.
• Demonstrating and training customers on the use of SciBite tools.
• Writing blogs, reports and papers, and giving presentations at public meetings and workshops.

Requirements:

Qualifications/Skills/Experience:

• PhD or MSc in a Life Sciences subject
• Strong interpersonal skills, and confident in representing SciBite at customer and public meetings
• Experience in building and working with biomedical ontologies
• Experience curating biological/clinical data within a pharma/drug discovery/life sciences environment
• Familiarity with major bio and chemo-informatics public databases and ontologies
• Bring the right ‘Can Do’ approach to fit our company culture
• Experience of working independently and under pressure
• Ability to identify problems and apply creative solutions
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills

Additionally, any experience in the following would be advantageous:

• Experience in customer-facing or Professional Services roles
• A scripting language such as Python, accessing RESTful APIs, and the use of regular expressions
• Using Git/GitHub
• Use of Web Ontology Language (OWL)
• Exposure to text analytics and text mining, and an understanding of how these can aid drug discovery and development
• Interest in Machine Learning / AI

Why Join US

A career at SciBite, Elsevier, comes with the chance to help tackle real-world challenges of some of the biggest companies in biomedicine and beyond. Coupled with that comes a competitive salary, a fantastic benefits package, and the chance to work in an environment that encourages innovation and personal development. Perhaps most importantly, working as a SciBite Scientific Curator offers a chance to enjoy working in a friendly, talented team where your contributions really make a difference.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work during the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care Leave
• Flexible working hours
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Employee Assistance Program (global)

About the Business

SciBite from Elsevier is passionate about making scientific content accessible, harmonised and interoperable. We develop data-first, award-winning, semantic analytics software for those who want to get more from their data. Developed by a team of global experts using the latest in GenAI and large language models (LLMs) technologies, we’re simplifying the way Scientists access, curate, and apply data through our suite of user-friendly solutions.