Research Associate

2 days ago


Hamilton, Canada McMaster University Full time

**Schedule**
Monday to Friday 8:30 - 4:30

**Education Level**
Doctoral degree in a relevant field of study.

**Career Level**
Requires 7 years of relevant experience.

**Research Associate I**

JD#: JD0550

**About McMaster**

At McMaster University, we strive to attract, develop, and retain talented faculty and staff, and to foster inclusive excellence which values the strengths, perspectives, and contributions of everyone. McMaster is one of the Top 70 Universities in the World and is recognized as Canada’s Most Research-Intensive University. McMaster continues to be recognized as one of the top employers in the Hamilton/Niagara region and one of Canada’s Top Diversity employers.

**Our Faculty and Culture of Excellence**

The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), the largest Faculty within McMaster, is unique as the only Canadian university that combines schools of medicine (including two regional campuses), nursing, rehabilitation science, and the programs of midwifery, Bachelor of Health Sciences, physician assistant and postgraduate health sciences education within one faculty. Our pioneering approaches to education and our reputation for world-class research has consistently placed McMaster and the Faculty among the top 50 universities in the world for health and medicine.

Those who join FHS will find a community of 5,400 talented individuals who are inspired by the faculty’s commitment to our values of **interprofessional collaboration**, **commitment to our communities**, **accountability**, **innovation**, **excellence**, **integrity**, **respect**, and **optimism**.

**The Opportunity**

The primary function of the National Pain Centre is to develop, update, and disseminate clinical practice guidelines for pain management in collaboration with patient partners, clinical experts, and methodologists. The centre draws on McMaster’s expertise in evidence-based medicine to identify, collate, review, revise, update, and develop clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of pain. Guidelines are then disseminated using best practice techniques of knowledge translation. The Research Associate I will lead a population-based cohort study: Healthcare utilization and costs of veterans and civilians with chronic back pain, with and without comorbid mental illness.

**Job Summary**

The Research Associate (I) is responsible for planning, managing, and overseeing a large, multi-site, multi-disciplinary research program, with the potential to compose, lead, and conduct research as an independent investigator or as a co-investigator within a faculty member's program. Develops collaborations and partnerships with research user groups to help shape research directions and ensure effective research transfer.

**Key Functions**
- Initiate, design, and lead a research program.
- Formulate research questions and generate and test hypotheses.
- Make significant contributions to the design of a research program to answer questions and solve complex research problems.
- Publish results as first author in scientific peer-reviewed journals.
- Author scientific papers, funding proposals, and abstracts.
- Write research proposals, submit proposals to external funding agencies, and secure funding to conduct research through grants and contracts.
- Plan and coordinate all aspects of a major research program across multiple sites.
- Develop inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, and inter-sectoral research collaborations.
- Negotiate research agreements and subcontracts to meet site and coordinating centre requirements.
- Develop budget for a research program.
- Implement and maintain a research program budget. Create financial projections and make adjustments to a research program budget throughout the fiscal year.
- Troubleshoot problems at all stages of program development and implementation and modify protocol or program procedures to address challenges.
- Participate with a team in the development and authoring of research protocols. Design a promotional strategy and related materials to encourage participation and support for a research program. Conduct quantitative and qualitative program participant interviews.
- Facilitate focus group sessions with program participants.
- Coordinate and manage the collection, delivery, entry, verification, analysis, and reporting of data.
- Oversee the design of data management systems.
- Use statistical software to analyze complex data and interpret results.
- Liaise between the program centre and remote program sites and personnel.
- Develop presentations and present at meetings, seminars, and conferences.
- Conduct literature searches.

**Supervision**
- Provide lead hand supervision and is responsible for the quality and quantity of work of others.
- Ongoing responsibility for supervising up to 9 casual employees at any one time.
- Provide orientation and show procedures to others.

**Additional Information**
- Economic analysis
- Technical knowledge of the GRADE approach


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