Research Assistant/Technician 4

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Staff - Non Union Job Category Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants Job Profile Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 4 Job Title Research Assistant/Technician 4 Department Administrative Management | Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences | Faculty of Medicine Compensation Range $5,220.98 - $6,124.46 CAD Monthly Posting End Date June 25, 2026 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. Job End Date June 30, 2027 This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University. At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. Job Summary Under supervision of Body Program faculty lead, employee will provide support in the Gross Anatomy laboratory and other Gross Anatomy teaching areas. The employee will exercise a considerable amount of judgment, responsibility, and initiative in determining work procedures and methods as they relate to the administration of the Body Donation Program. The employee will coordinate the use of anatomical material for research and education in collaboration with and under the supervision of the faculty Lead. The employee will be responsible for managing the lab. Organizational Status Employee works from oral and written instructions or schedule, and will report to Body Program Manager to discuss new and unusual problems. Work Performed Prosector (50%) - Exercises knowledge of anatomy dissection in order to prepare wet specimens for demonstration teaching purposes and for plastination. Plastination - Dissects human cadavers required for plastination - Exercises knowledge of chemical or histology procedures. - Exercises safety knowledge of handling of hazardous chemicals. - Oversees and trains technical staff in the morgue in plastination techniques. Gross Anatomy Laboratory (20%) - Coordinate delivery of bodies and prosections to the university, to other sites (UNBC, UVIC, UBC-O) and hospitals, and to funeral homes for cremation. - Responsible for developing and designing new technological updates on body program database. - Develop improved workflow for the administration of the Body Donation Program in collaboration with the Faculty Lead. - maintain and organize student bone collection and prosected specimens; cataloguing these collections. - Maintain Gross Anatomy medical student laboratories, morgue and dissecting areas including: cleaning cadaver trays, counters, sinks, commodes and laboratory floors as required; washing instruments; tidying rooms; replacing, and organizing supplies; putting away specimens; making solutions. - Research new technologies as they relate to the maintenance of a modern gross anatomy laboratory. Discuss these findings with the Faculty Lead and coordinate any possible implementation of these new technologies with them. - Oversee the management of chemical inventory for gross anatomy teaching labs and morgue - Receive bodies and prepare, embalm and store. - Receive body program phone calls from families, and doctors, and make decisions as to acceptance of the body based on a "check list" of questions and the doctor's experience. - Set-up and invigilation of anatomy lab examinations. - Keep accurate records of all program related data including number of students attending the labs, total scheduled hours in the GAL, uses of cadaver and/or prosected material. This data will be essential at year-end. - Develop, review and update all SOPs as they relate to the administration of the Body Donation Program - Train new staff and oversee the work of current staff and ensure compliance with safety protocols on a daily basis. - Move cadavers into coolers and onto dissecting tables; move dissecting tables and other lab equipment - Other duties as required in the Gross Laboratory lab. Anatomical Material for Education and Research - Workshops - Upon approval of anatomical applications liaise with UBC departments to schedule courses. - Process anatomical requests from multiple postgraduate surgical departments simultaneously including but not limited to the following UBC Departments: Dept. Family Practice, Dept. Surgery, Dept. Plastic Surgery, St Paul's Hospital Emergency Department, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dept. of Family Practice, Dept. of Radiology, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dept. of Emergency Medicine - Process anatomical requests from the following external groups: Clinical Education Department, BC Emergency Health Services, American Association of Implant Dentistry, Pacific Training Institute of Facial Aesthetics. - Allocate and determine the suitability of anatomic

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