Beekeeper and Technical Research Assistant

**About the role**





This position will fund a beekeeper to maintain the research colonies of
honeybees at the John Krebs Field station for the Oxford Bee Lab. The
beekeeper will be responsible for requeening, queen rearing, disease and
parasite control, swarm prevention and honey production. The person appointed
will also liaise regularly with lab personnel to orchestrate experiments,
including the provision of adult bees and brood comb for experiments and the
creation of minicolonies for testing diets. As a research assistant, the
person employed may also engage in laboratory experiments in close
collaboration with lab personnel. The person will also occasionally liaise
with the public and may also be responsible for building and maintenance of an
observation colony.








**About you**





Individuals with experience in inspection of bee colonies and liaising with UK
Home Office staff over the importation of bees will be preferred.





**How to apply**





Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via our e-recruitment
system, and should include the application letter, a CV, a list addressing the
job criteria, and names of two academic references. Where Covid-19 has
resulted in substantial disruption to your work or research outputs, please
explain this by providing an additional paragraph in your supporting
statement.





The University of Oxford is committed to equality and valuing diversity. All
applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.





This post is a 30% appointment and is available immediately.





The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Tuesday 09 July 2024.