Biorepository Supervisor - (Wits DIH)

SUMMARY:
Background:

• The Wits Diagnostic Innovation Hub is a division of Wits Health Consortium
• Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences
• WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives. In addition, WHC offers a range of products and services to Academics

POSITION INFO:
Division: Wits Diagnostic and Innovation Hub (Wits DIH)

Main purpose of the job:

• To coordinate sample registration on LDMS and the retrieval of samples according to client specific requests and oversee repository activities to ensure that all operations run smoothly

Location:

• Braamfontein

Key performance areas:

• Oversee biorepository processes and ensure daily operations run optimally
• Perform demo checks, error checking and attending to queries
• Ensure all work is performed in line with the SOPs
• Check that equipment is validated, cleaned and calibrated
• Ensure stock is ordered timeously
• Report any issues and areas of concern to the biorepository manager
• Manager staff and operations of the biorepository as delegated by the manager
• Maintain a neat and tidy work areas
• Ensure daily maintenance of freezers and instruments
• Signing of log sheets to ensure maintenance and proper working order
• Fill the copiers with paper as and when required
• Perform quality checks for specimens logged to ensure that all samples are logged correctly as per protocols
• Supervise correct specimen data entry on LDMS
• Supervise quality labelling of specimens
• Ensure correct storage allocation of specimen and in freezers
• Ensure specimen retrieval lists match client requests
• Ensure quality specimen retrieval for all shipments
• Ensure sample integrity is maintained during specimen retrieval
• Ensure timely booking of shipments and specimen integrity for shipments
• Ensure timely shipment alerts to sponsors once shipments have been dispatched

Required minimum education and training:

• Diploma in Biomedical Sciences

Required minimum work experience:

• Minimum 1 years’ experience in Biorepository and Shipping Processes

Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:

• Attention to detail
• Good time management skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Clinical Trials background with biorepository experience will be advantageous
• Computer literacy
• Good Clinical Laboratory Practice course completion
• IATA certification for shipment of dangerous goods

TO APPLY:

• Only if you meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV
• Please Apply Online and complete your registration via our website to enable and protect you as a candidate, and to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions
• This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL
• However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market
• Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position
• Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates
• Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful
• Closing date:12 December 2025
• Note: No CV will be accepted after the closing date

Please note:

• WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto
• AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising and the response handling on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium
• AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position

 

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