Research Security Advisor

3 months ago

Vancouver, Canada University of British Columbia Full time

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level C

Job Title

Research Security Advisor

Department

Research Security | VP Research and Innovation

Compensation Range

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Posting End Date

September 17, 2024

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation (VPRI) seeks a Research Security Advisor with expertise in the principles and practice of safeguarding research, policy analysis, and effective communications.

Research security considerations are new in grant-funded research, and this role will help enable awareness, understanding, and compliance with these considerations. The Research Security Advisor’s work will contribute to a strong and diverse research culture that embraces the highest standards of integrity, collegiality and service.

The Research Security Advisor will also be responsible for maintaining a high level of awareness regarding developments domestically and internationally that are relevant to the research security portfolio. At times, the Research Security Advisor will be required to use tools available to the university to conduct due diligence checks and create reports and/or briefings regarding research security issues of interest.

Under the supervision of the Director, the Research Security Advisor will engage with a range of external stakeholders while representing UBC and for the purpose of identifying and mitigating specific risks to the university. Some engagements will involve confidential or highly sensitive discussions that require discretion.

Organizational Status

The Research Security Advisor will report to the Director, Research Security in the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation. This role will have an important external component, and will work closely with colleagues in the VPRI Portfolio, with a range of offices and faculties across UBC, and with those in similar roles at other Canadian institutions.

Work Performed

The Research Security Advisor will be responsible for working with internal (to UBC) and external stakeholders to conduct assessments, provide advice, and identify appropriate learning approaches for training and programming related to research security.

Program Creation & Management
- Consults and uses a range of internal systems specific for the delivery of a research security program.
- Identifies and develops new processes to administer a research security program;
- Develops a suite of educational and promotional materials for UBC that are consistent with the institution’s needs, culture and values;
- Evaluates and recommends program elements that should be publicly available vs. available only to the UBC community;
- Researches and curates an extensive library of educational tools and resources that can be used directly or which can inform research security-related training and awareness material in UBC;
- Creates and adopts a wide range of learner-centric material that will be available through the online environment. This may include slide presentations, case studies, FAQ documents, videos, a curated, annotated reference list that includes material from the scientific literature, and mainstream media;
- Develops and implements train-the-trainer modules that UBC people would be expected to complete before gaining access to certain resources in the online environment; and
- Engages with and manages external vendors as needed; liaises with university partners such as UBC Studios and UBC-IT.

Research, Analysis and Advice
- Performs research and create analysis (reports, briefings, memos) on research security-related topics on an as-needed basis;
- Provides advice on complex files and cases using open-source information techniques to allow senior university officials to make informed decisions;
- Provides advise in relation to changing considerations in research security;
- Maintains a high level of awareness and knowledge of geopolitical trends and their impact to the University;
- Delivers training and awareness-building sessions to relevant stakeholders in UBC.

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