Research Technician-Shapiro Lab
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 4 wk ago
Research$48k–$51k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract content:
First paragraph: "The Research Technician will assist scientists in performing scientific research, development and/or clinical tasks of varying complexity. In general, they will assist in the set up, operation and maintenance of laboratory instruments and equipment, monitoring experiments, making observations and calculating and recording results."
That's about the role.
Next: "Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals."
That's about organization, could be part of About the role or maybe separate but we can include in About the role.
Next: "The Shapiro Lab of the Department of Medical Oncology is seeking a highly motivated and organized individual to assist in several projects related to cyclin-dependent kinase inhibition in breast and other CDK4-driven cancer models. Projects will contribute heavily to cell cycle inhibitor cancer drug development using novel combinatorial strategies to circumvent resistance. Responsibilities will also include service as a Laboratory Safety Officer, ordering of supplies and general lab maintenance."
That's responsibilities.
Then a list of responsibilities (some sentences with verbs). Let's extract bullet points:
- Set up, adjust, calibrate, clean, maintain and troubleshoot equipment
- Clean, maintain and prepare supplies and work areas and may be responsible for ordering of supplies.
- Collaborates with Purchasing and may be responsible for negotiating with vendors
- Conduct standardized biological, microbiological or biochemical tests and laboratory analyses, including the collection of information and samples from organic substances, such as blood, drugs, and animals
- Isolate, identify and prepare specimens for examination
- Analyze experimental data and interpret results to write reports and summaries of findings, including grant preparation and presentations, and look for opportunities to co-author publications. May be expected to participate in formal and information presentations of results to staff
- Participate in grant application process and manuscript preparation as required
- Maintains detailed notebook of all work-related activities
- Monitors laboratory work to ensure compliance with Environmental Health and Safety information as well as the standard operation procedures specific to each laboratory
- Expected to provide intellectual and interactive commitment to position by keeping up with appropriate literature and research publications
- May be responsible for the development, modification and improvement of standard operating procedures
- Uses computers, computer-interfaced equipment, robotics or high-technology applications to perform work duties
- May be responsible for designing and executing advanced experiments and setting strategy
- May be responsible for the examination of animals and specimens to detect the presence of disease or other problems
- May be responsible for monitoring laboratory budgets
- Perform tissue culture with maintenance of cell lines and perform drug treatments and molecular biological cellular manipulations.
- Run Western blots and perform other cellular assays in vitro.
- Conduct experiments in in vivo mouse models
Then "Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities Required" section:
- Knowledge of information and techniques related to either biology, chemistry, or medicine is preferred
- Must have excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and be able to work with a wide variety of faculty and staff
- Ability to analyze information and use logic to address work-related issues and problems
- Must have attention to detail and be thorough in completing work tasks
- Ability to work within a team environment
Then "Minimum Job Qualifications":
- The position requires a bachelor’s degree, preferably in biology or chemistry, with no prior professional experience necessary.
- Candidates will learn and apply technical principles, processes, and concepts, use institutional policies to address routine issues, and work on problems of limited scope.
- The role involves following standard practices to analyze situations or data and building stable internal working relationships.
Then "Supervisory Responsibilities No supervisory responsibilities. Normally receives detailed instructions on all work. PATIENT CONTACT: None"
Then later about Dana-Farber environment etc (already included). Then EEO etc (boilerplate to remove). Then Pay Transparency Statement: includes pay range $47,500.00 - $51,300.00.
No explicit Benefits or Schedule mentioned. So we should not create Benefits or Schedule sections.
We need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Pay.
But we need to decide mapping: "Requirements" maybe includes Minimum Job Qualifications? The instructions: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have both Requirements and Qualifications separate if content exists.
We have "Minimum Job Qualifications" content -> Qualifications section.
We have "Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities Required" -> Skills section.
We have maybe "Requirements" could be something else like "Requirements" maybe includes the supervisory responsibilities, patient contact? But we can treat that as Requirements? Actually the posting includes "Supervisory Responsibilities No supervisory responsibilities. Normally receives detailed instructions on all work. PATIENT CONTACT: None". That could be considered Requirements? But it's more like job details. Could be placed under Requirements? However the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." We could combine some.
We have About the role (intro + organization description). Responsibilities (list). Qualifications (minimum job qualifications). Skills (knowledge, skills, abilities). Pay (pay range). Possibly Requirements could be omitted if no distinct content besides what's already covered. But we have supervisory responsibilities and patient contact; maybe we can put those under Requirements as a short list.
Let's see if we can create a Requirements section with items: No supervisory responsibilities; receives detailed instructions; no patient contact.
That's substantive.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Pay.
We must not include Benefits or Schedule.
Now format: Use
for each section heading. Then content: For prose use
. For lists use
- . We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not omit details. We need to include all details from the posting, but we can combine similar sentences into list items but must keep the info. Let's craft About the role paragraph(s): Combine first two paragraphs: "The Research Technician will assist scientists in performing scientific research, development and/or clinical tasks of varying complexity. In general, they will assist in the set up, operation and maintenance of laboratory instruments and equipment, monitoring experiments, making observations and calculating and recording results. Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals. The Shapiro Lab of the Department of Medical Oncology is seeking a highly motivated and organized individual to assist in several projects related to cyclin-dependent kinase inhibition in breast and other CDK4-driven cancer models. Projects will contribute heavily to cell cycle inhibitor cancer drug development using novel combinatorial strategies to circumvent resistance." That seems fine. Now Responsibilities: we need to list each responsibility as
- . Ensure we include all bullet points we extracted.
Let's list them exactly as in posting, but we can keep the phrasing.
List:
- Set up, adjust, calibrate, clean, maintain and troubleshoot equipment
- Clean, maintain and prepare supplies and work areas and may be responsible for ordering of supplies.
- Collaborates with Purchasing and may be responsible for negotiating with vendors
- Conduct standardized biological, microbiological or biochemical tests and laboratory analyses, including the collection of information and samples from organic substances, such as blood, drugs, and animals
- Isolate, identify and prepare specimens for examination
- Analyze experimental data and interpret results to write reports and summaries of findings, including grant preparation and presentations, and look for opportunities to co-author publications. May be expected to participate in formal and information presentations of results to staff
- Participate in grant application process and manuscript preparation as required
- Maintains detailed notebook of all work-related activities
- Monitors laboratory work to ensure compliance with Environmental Health and Safety information as well as the standard operation procedures specific to each laboratory
- Expected to provide intellectual and interactive commitment to position by keeping up with appropriate literature and research publications
- May be responsible for the development, modification and improvement of standard operating procedures
- Uses computers, computer-interfaced equipment, robotics or high-technology applications to perform work duties
- May be responsible for designing and executing advanced experiments and setting strategy
- May be responsible for the examination of animals and specimens to detect the presence of disease or other problems
- May be responsible for monitoring laboratory budgets
- Perform tissue culture with maintenance of cell lines and perform drug treatments and molecular biological cellular manipulations.
- Run Western blots and perform other cellular assays in vitro.
- Conduct experiments in in vivo mouse models
Note some sentences have periods inside; we keep as is.
Now Requirements section: include:
- No supervisory responsibilities.
- Normally receives detailed instructions on all work.
- PATIENT CONTACT: None
We could phrase as list items.
Now Qualifications section: Minimum Job Qualifications content:
- The position requires a bachelor’s degree, preferably in biology or chemistry, with no prior professional experience necessary.
- Candidates will learn and apply technical principles, processes, and concepts, use institutional policies to address routine issues, and work on problems of limited scope.
- The role involves following standard practices to analyze situations or data and building stable internal working relationships.
Now Skills section: Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities Required:
- Knowledge of information and techniques related to either biology, chemistry, or medicine is preferred
- Must have excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and be able to work with a wide variety of faculty and staff
- Ability to analyze information and use logic to address work-related issues and problems
- Must have attention to detail and be thorough in completing work tasks
- Ability to work within a team environment
Now Pay section: include the pay range statement.
We have: "The hiring range is based on market pay structures, with individual salaries determined by factors such as business needs, market conditions, internal equity, and based on the candidate’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications. For union positions, the pay range is determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). $47,500.00 - $51,300.00"
We should keep that as prose maybe in a
. Could also split into two sentences. Now ensure we removed boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Also removed the later paragraphs about environment (we already used some in About the role). The later paragraph about "At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we work every day to create an innovative, caring, and inclusive environment..." is similar to earlier; we might have duplicated content. We should avoid duplication. We already included similar content in About the role; we can omit the later duplicate. We also need to remove the "Pay Transparency Statement" heading but keep the content. Now produce HTML fragment. Let's craft:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- No supervisory responsibilities.
- Normally receives detailed instructions on all work.
- PATIENT CONTACT: None