Operations Manager

**Schedule**
Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm

**Education Level**
University degree in a relevant field.
Master level training in a relevant field desirable.

**Career Level**
3-5 years working in comparable roles; preferably within an academic research environment.

Job Title:
**Operations Manager**

Reports To

Dr Donald Arnold and Dr Ishac Nazy

Co-Directors, MGD-Centre for Transfusion Research

**Department, Unit or Project Description**:
The Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Transfusion Research (MGD-CTR) is a newly re-branded research centre that includes the clinically based McMaster Centre for Transfusion Research (MCTR) and the McMaster Platelet Immunology Laboratory (MPIL), a translational research/clinical laboratory which also includes diagnostic testing. In addition to managing large research projects, clinical trials and a testing facility, a recent gift from the MGD Gift Board of $5M will allow the centre to advance transfusion science using innovative methods. The Centre’s mission is to improve health and outcomes of blood transfusion recipients and blood donors, and to ensure that our blood supply is safe and sustainable. Activities in the centre include multicentre, multinational clinical trials, large database projects, observational studies all linked with laboratory-based discovery work providing a unique translational research focus.

**Job Summary**:
The Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Transfusion Research (MGD-CTR) is a newly re-branded research centre that includes the clinically based McMaster Centre for Transfusion Research (MCTR) and the McMaster Platelet Immunology Laboratory (MPIL), a translational research/clinical laboratory which also includes diagnostic testing. In addition to managing large research projects, clinical trials and a testing facility, a recent gift from the MGD Gift Board of $5M will allow the centre to advance transfusion science using innovative methods. The Centre’s mission is to improve health and outcomes of blood transfusion recipients and blood donors, and to ensure that our blood supply is safe and sustainable. Activities in the centre include multicentre, multinational clinical trials, large database projects, observational studies all linked with laboratory-based discovery work providing a unique translational research focus.

**Accountabilities**:
Operations Management
- Provide day-to-day strategic leadership and direction to the centre operations including financial management, budget projections,, policy development, and direct supervision of core staff with oversight of the research staff hired to work on various projects/teams.
- Lead people planning, training, resourcing, and development functions of the centre. This includes recruitment, coordination of work priorities and schedules, and managing employee issues/concerns including those of performance.
- Liaise with researchers, internal stakeholders (research finance, research services, human resources, departmental partners etc.) and develop relationships to external partners.
- Serve an active role on the centre’s steering committee to identify and implement strategic priorities.
- Oversee the efficient utilization of space across the centre

Financial Management
- Oversee the financial administration of the centre and produce regular financial reports
- Develop and implement an annual operating budget for the Centre, in collaboration with the co
- directors
- Monitor the centre’s research activity and ensure appropriate reconciliation in collaboration with Research Finance and the core administrative team.
- Develop and monitor research metrics to measure indicators of progress, impact, and success
- Authorize expenditures and ensure compliance of process and policies
- Monitor and maintain contractual obligations of partnerships

Planning and Development
- Manage relationships with other centers and institutes across campus and externally
- Contribute to the development of business plans to ensure efficiency of the centre and responsive to new opportunities
- Lead strategic planning discussion of new projects and initiatives to implement plans to ensure availability of resources.
- Collaborate with Co-directors on efforts to establish new partners to strengthen the reach of the centre and promote the centre’s capabilities.
- Coordinate committee and working group meetings

Project Management
- Oversight of the research grant activities within the centre
- Liaise with university and hospital-based research administration partners and advancement teams
- Provide annual reporting information and ensure submission deadlines are achieved
- Seek out and oversee proposals of new funding opportunities
- Ensure project milestones and targets are achieved
- Guide and oversee leadership, steering committee, and core members on grant submissions
- Help identify, guide, and oversee commercialization opportunities
- Physical Resource Management
- Oversight of physical space and ensure efficient ut