Research Assistant/ Technician 3

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Job Category

CUPE 116

Job Profile

CUPE 116 Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3

Job Title

Research Assistant/ Technician 3

Department

Research | Schummers Lab | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Compensation Range

$4,757.00 - $5,187.00 CAD Monthly

Posting End Date

February 25, 2025

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

Job End Date

Sept 30, 2025

This is a 6-month term position with the possibility of an extension

This role is expected to start in Grade 6, Step 1

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 Research Assistant will play an active role to support team members and the conduct of research within the Reproductive Population Health Data Research Team led by Dr. Laura Schummers and located within the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. This will largely on a CIHR-funded program of research examining impacts of policy and practice change on reproductive population health using quantitative methods from epidemiology and health policy and patient-oriented research methods to engage patients, policy and system leaders, and clinicians throughout the research. This includes studies on optimal pregnancy spacing, abortion safety and access, contraception access, early pregnancy loss, and methodological work to create conception cohorts using population-based administrative health data.

Organizational Status

The Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) is the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science’s multidisciplinary group of outcomes researchers specializing in epidemiology, health economics, health services research, and pharmacy practice research. Research conducted by CORE faculty members is directly aligned with the Faculty’s Health Outcomes theme. The Research Assistant will report overall to the Principal Investigator of this research group within CORE, Dr. Laura Schummers

, and will be under the direct supervision of the team Research Coordinator.

Work Performed

Specific activities include:
- Coordinate and support meetings of investigators, staff, and/or trainees.-
- Assist with financial reporting to funding agencies for all grant activities.- Assist with keeping the PI Canadian Common CV up to date.- Assist with submission and review of manuscripts to scholarly journals.- Assist with processing expenses in Workday for all personnel.- Review and synthesize literature relevant to research projects.- Draft and review/revise analytic plans for research studies, primarily using population-based health administrative data, including variable definitions based on coding systems such as ICD9 and ICD10 diagnostic codes, intervention codes, and billing codes.- Assist with data requests to population-based data stewards (eg Population Data BC, Perinatal Services BC, ICES in Ontario, Health Data Research Network and related provincial data stewards from other collaborating provinces)- Support team statistician to develop and implement statistical analysis plans for research studies.- Assist with manuscript preparation for submission to peer-reviewed journals, including literature reviews, referencing, copy editing, drafting some sections.- Conduct data analysis under supervision of team PI and statistician using statistical software (SAS, R, Stata) and geographical software (GIS).- Assist with interpretation of findings using quantitative methods and various data types.- Draft abstracts, reports, and conference submissions and presentations.-
- Assist with the coordination and planning of a reproductive health patient advisory council, including meeting council members, assisting with program-wide and project-specific patient engagement activities, supporting patient and public partners as needed to engage in research meetings and pursue professional development activities.- Assisting undergraduate and graduate students with their research tasks.- Draft updates to the team website.- Perform other related duties as required.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

The Research Assistant is responsible for engaging with stakeholders such as health care providers performing abortion services in a culturally sensitive and respectful manner. This position requires working effectively within an organizational structure and involves a high degree of self-direction, the ability to work to tight timelines, and strong interpersonal skills. Poor decisions and errors in judgment could result in delayed completion of projects or inappropriate planning, result in financial loss, and damage the reputation of the Reproductive Population Healt