For over 40 years, our shared commitment to curing childhood cancer has united us. Together, we continue to accelerate the answers to make that possible.

To accomplish our vision, we’re seeking someone who lives our values: owning and delivering meaningful work, collaborating to drive impact, challenging the status quo to create a better future, and balancing logic with empathy. Let’s achieve more, together.

The purpose of the Tumour Bank is to build diverse cohorts of rare patient samples with matched clinical data for current and future research. This position is an integral part of the translational, clinical, and lab-based research performed by the Children’s Cancer Institute.

As the Technical Assistant you are responsible for the centralised patient biomaterial and data reception, processing, and management for CCI Tumour Bank.

The Tumour Bank Technical

Assistant requires strong compliance to ethical and regulatory requirements and highly developed verbal and written communication skills to ensure samples, information and reporting can be provided on strict deadlines to various stakeholders and uphold the high standards of performance by our team.

To succeed you will have:

- Tertiary qualifications in science or relevant health industry experience
- Experience with database entry and management.
- Experienced with Microsoft Applications.



(Office/Teams/Power Apps)
- Ability to work to deadlines combined with excellent attention to detail
- Experience within a Hospital/Pathology laboratory combined with Patient Sample reception/processing experience is highly desirable
- Experience with PC2 and WHS standards and behaviour highly desirable

We will support you to be your best with benefits that include but are not limited to:
- Working in a world-class, purpose-built facility, the only one in Australia dedicated to curing childhood cancer
- Not-for-profit salary packaging, tax advantages, corporate discounts and UNSW education discounts
- Generous leave including up to 5 gifted days off (paid) per year, leading parental leave entitlements
- Focus on employee wellbeing, including flexible working (depending on your role) and access to fitness passport

Join us to shape a future every child deserves and to find meaning in your own. Because together, we can cure every child of cancer. It’s not if, it’s when.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Children’s Cancer Institute and our culture. We embrace diversity and encourage you to advise of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the recruitment process.

📌 Technical Assistant (Sydney)
🏢 Children'S Cancer Institute
📍 Sydney