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Junior Specialist in Biology, Animal Care/Husbandry
Position overview
Position title: Junior SpecialistApplication Window
Open date: May 2, 2025
Most recent review date: Friday, May 16, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.
Final date: Thursday, Jul 31, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
Candidate will be in charge of squid husbandry and running the Nishiguchi lab aquatics room, which entails feeding squid, receiving and maintaining shrimp supply (for feed), cleaning all aquaria daily, checking ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate levels, ensuring water quality is high at all times, and maintaining the squid hatchery for our juvenile squids. Candidate will also be working with Sogin lab Aiptasia anemone husbandry, and caring for astral leafhoppers (Bennett lab). Candidate will be required to have knowledge on basic statistics as well as graphing data on basic software.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in related field. Aquarium husbandry or some time of experience with aquatic animals is desired. Knowledge of insect care and maintenance. Basic laboratory techniques in microbiology (making agar and liquid media for bacterial cultures), sterile streaking and culturing, growth assays is not required but useful.
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Authorization of Information Release - 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., left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer.
“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, discrimination, dishonesty, or unethical conduct, as defined by the employer.
Required Authorization of Information Release may be found here. Please complete, sign, and upload the required Authorization of Information Release to your application.
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Help contact: snspersonnel@ucmerced.edu
About UC Merced
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.
Required Authorization of Information Release may be found here. Please complete, sign, and upload the required Authorization of Information Release to your application.
Additional links: UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy, the UC Anti-Discrimination Policy, and APM 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment.
The University of California, Merced, is the newest of the University of California system’s 10 campuses. Ranked as one of the best public universities in the nation by U.S. News and World Report and recently designated as an R1 institution by Carnegie, UC Merced is committed to innovation and excellence in research. With over 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students (https://cie.ucmerced.edu/analytics-hub/student-statistics), UC Merced provides outstanding, inclusive educational opportunities to highly qualified students from the heart of California, the nation, and abroad. The campus has special connections to nearby Yosemite National Park; is on the cutting edge of sustainability in construction and design; and supports the economic development of Central California.
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