Vacant job

Are you a biomedical analyst or have equivalent education, with an interest in reproductive medicine and embryology? We are looking for a colleague for a fixed-term position at our Reproductive Medicine Laboratory at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge!

What we offer

• A individually tailored introduction based on your previous experience, as well as regular competence development.
• A work group with high competence and helpfulness.
• A varied job where you work closely in an interdisciplinary team.
• Many development opportunities, from uncomplicated IVF treatment to the most highly specialized treatments in reproductive medicine in the Nordic countries.
• Good opportunities to engage in education and development within the reproductive field through our development and research projects.

Naturally, you will also benefit from our general benefits offered by Karolinska University Hospital.

About the position

At the Reproductive Medicine Laboratory in Huddinge, we specialize in investigations and advanced treatments for involuntary childlessness and infertility in both men and women. Treatments offered here include ovarian stimulation, insemination with partner or donor sperm, IVF, surgical sperm retrieval (TBD/MD-TESE), and egg donation.

We also perform fertility preservation measures prior to, for example, cancer treatment or gender-affirming treatment, in the form of freezing sperm, unfertilized or fertilized eggs/blastocysts, as well as ovarian or testicular tissue. We also have a national highly specialized assignment within PGT (preimplantation genetic testing) and receive patients from all over Sweden and even from other countries.

The duties include handling of oocytes and sperm, semen analysis, embryo culture, assessment of embryo development, and cryopreservation of eggs, sperm, and embryos. As an embryologist at Karolinska, you become part of a competent team with doctors and midwives who jointly drive our operations forward. Our operations are primarily conducted during daytime hours, but some weekend work is included as an embryologist.

The position is a fixed-term appointment for the period 2026-09-01 to 2027-08-31.

We are looking for you who

• Are calm, attentive, and accommodating in your interactions. You have the interest, willingness, and ability to help others and strive to deliver solutions.
• Understand the professional aspects of the work especially well. You continuously maintain your specialist knowledge and are a resource for others.
• Have good collaboration and communication skills and find it easy to work in teams with different professions, as several work tasks occur in close cooperation between the different professions within the unit but also externally.
• Have a high sense of responsibility and contribute to a positive work climate.
• Are meticulous and quality-conscious in your work.
• Have good interpersonal skills, as patient contact occurs in several work tasks.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Licensed biomedical analyst or alternatively a university degree in natural sciences or equivalent education assessed by the organization as equivalent.

Merits:

• Experience within embryology.
• Experience working in a hospital environment as well as with systems connected to the hospital, such as TakeCare, FertSoft (IVF journal system), Centuri.
• Research background or experience in a research environment.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability for the position.

About the recruitment process

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period. The application period for this position extends over the summer holiday period, and we plan to begin the selection process as early as week 33. We will contact you as soon as we know which applicants are moving forward to the next step in the recruitment process.

In connection with your application, you need to attach a CV. Instead of a cover letter, we ask you to answer selection questions and briefly motivate why you are suitable for the role. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

You are warmly welcome to apply - Together we are Karolinska!

In connection with the appointment of positions involving care of children and young people, anyone offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and burden register. You can read more about the recruitment process and which checks are performed at Karolinska here.

As an employee at Karolinska University Hospital, you may be assigned to wartime duties. Read more about what this entails here.

If you are or have previously been employed by Region Stockholm, we will take internal references from your current or former manager if you become a candidate for employment.

For permanent positions, a probationary period may be applied.

About Karolinska University Hospital

We at Karolinska University Hospital are proud to be one of the world's leading university hospitals. In addition to our special responsibility for highly specialized care in the Stockholm region, our main task is to train future healthcare professionals and conduct world-leading research together with Karolinska Institutet, while continuing our work to develop care for the benefit of the patient. We work within a number of different areas and professions.

You can read more about our mission within care, research, and education here.

Our vision - We shall cure and alleviate tomorrow what no one can cure and alleviate today.

Please read more about us on karolinska.se and follow us on social media!

Theme Women's Health and Health Professions

Women's health covers all activities within reproductive medicine, benign gynecological care, pregnancy, childbirth, and fetal medicine care in both Huddinge and Solna. We also have a national highly specialized assignment within fetal medicine. You can read more about us here.

Health professions; physiotherapists, occupational therapists, counselors, dietitians, speech therapists, and psychologists meet patients' needs and create added value in collaboration with other professions within all the hospital's themes and functions.