Job Description

Role Summary

The Head of Imaging provides strategic, scientific, and operational leadership for a multi-modality imaging core supporting small and large animal research. The role drives high-quality, compliant imaging services that enable translational research, while ensuring adherence to applicable regulatory, ethical, and animal welfare standards.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Scientific Leadership

• Define and execute imaging strategy aligned with institutional research priorities
• Advance multimodal imaging capabilities across MRI, CT, PET, ultrasound, optical
• Partner with investigators on study design and imaging biomarkers
• Drive the application of multimodal imaging approaches to longitudinal monitoring, disease characterization, treatment response, and quantitative biomarker development.

Operations & Service Delivery

• Lead and optimize operations of small- and large-animal imaging facilities, including scheduling, throughput, utilization, and service quality.
• Oversee equipment lifecycle management, maintenance, and technology planning.

Animal Welfare & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, ethical, and animal welfare requirements governing the use of laboratory animals in research.
• Maintain imaging-related animal ethics protocols and support institutional animal ethics review and oversight processes.
• Knowledge of relevant Singapore requirements (e.g., NACLAR Guidelines, Animals and Birds Act) is advantageous.
• Embed the principles of Replacement, Reduction, Refinement (3Rs) across imaging operations and research activities

Quality, Data & Research Integrity

• Establish and maintain SOPs, risk assessments, quality assurance/quality control, and research integrity standards
• Oversee imaging informatics, data management, analysis workflows, and data integrity

Financial & Resource Management

• Develop sustainable financial and cost-recovery models aligned with facility utilization and strategic priorities.
• Develop business cases for new technologies

People & Stakeholder Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary teams, ensuring appropriate expertise, training, and succession planning
• Build strong partnerships with researchers, leadership, and external partners
• Support grant proposals and strategic collaborations

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

• PhD, DVM, MD, or equivalent qualification in a relevant field
• At least 10 years of experience in preclinical imaging
• Demonstrated experience working with small and large animal models
• Demonstrated leadership experience in research, imaging, or core facility environments, preferably with responsibility for facility operations and/or service delivery
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and/or imaging facilities

Skills & Competencies

• Expertise in multimodal imaging technologies
• Strong knowledge of regulatory, ethical, and animal welfare requirements for the use of laboratory animals in research
• Experience with animal ethics review, institutional oversight, and related approval processes.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with imaging informatics, quantitative imaging, and image analysis

Key Success Metrics

• Efficient platform utilization, service quality, and turnaround time
• Regulatory compliance and high standards of animal welfare
• Quality, reproducibility, and integrity of imaging data
• Scientific impact, research outputs, and successful collaborations
• Financial sustainability and effective resource utilization