Chief Scientific Officer

**Company Description**
One of Canada's Best Diversity Employers and Greater Toronto's Top Employers for many consecutive years, William Osler Health System (Osler) provides a safe and supportive health care network to grow your career. Osler is nationally recognized for its commitment to patient safety and is Accredited with Exemplary Standing, the highest rating a Canadian hospital can receive. As a major Ontario hospital system, and home to some of the biggest specialty and emergency departments in the country, Osler serves the 1.3 million residents of Brampton, Etobicoke and surrounding communities. We are proud to offer you incredible exposure to best-in-class health care delivery and challenging hands-on opportunities to stay at the top of your game.

A hospital system built for and by the community, we continue to expand our services to meet the needs of a growing population, creating opportunities for increased hands-on skills development, cross-department training and promotional opportunities. Guided by our accomplished senior leadership team, together we are driving our vision of patient-inspired health care without boundaries.

At Osler, we invest in careers that go beyond where health care professionals like you can achieve their goals and find deep personal and professional fulfillment. Join our team today

William Osler Health System (Osler) is seeking to recruit an experienced and creative scientific thought leader to serve as The Osler Research Institute for Health Innovation (ORIHI) inaugural Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). The CSO is a leadership position reporting directly to the Executive Vice President Research, Quality and Chief Nursing Executive, with responsibility for leading the development and implementation of a transformational scientific research agenda focused on patient-centered research.

The CSO will support achieving Osler’s vision of “Developing the health care providers and researchers of tomorrow” and ORIHI’s goal to “Build world-class pillars of research and innovation that will have the greatest impact on health”. To achieve this vision, the CSO will develop the scientific research agenda, specifically the identification and prioritization of major research themes and specific areas of focus, through extensive engagement of key stakeholders including patients, community members, researchers, the Research Council industry, academic and government partners.

As a growing and key contributor to undergraduate and post-graduate education across all disciplines, Osler is strengthening and formalizing academic and research relationships with its academic partners. The CSO will be expected to contribute to developing and growing a rich environment for training learners in priority areas of research and developing collaborations with academic partners.

ORIHI seeks to attract and retain an established research leader to serve as CSO to shape the future of ORIHI and Osler as a leader in health care research and lead the recruitment of a diverse team of outstanding ORIHI scientists to fulfill the Institute’s vision and research agenda.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide leadership and strategic vision for all the scientific aspects of ORIHI while overseeing the work of scientific staff and research programs
- Leads the advancement and implementation of ORIHI’s research and innovation strategy by fostering organizational values that promote innovation, strong interdisciplinary collaboration, research training, and the translation of new knowledge into enhanced clinical care
- Lead the development of world class pillars of research and innovation by generating, identifying and pursuing opportunities in these priority areas, and establishing research leads for each pillar
- Participates in multi-stakeholder Advisory Committees to review ORIHI’s research agenda, its portfolio and the findings of ORIHI-funded research, and to prioritize new research ideas
- Provide regular reports to Executive Leadership in line with the business’s Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and broader metrics on the impact of ORIHI on health and wellness to facilitate analysis and reporting of performance against the research strategic plan and budget
- Contributes to the national dialogues on translational research through presentations and through contributions to the peer-reviewed scientific literature
- Creation of an annual workplan to achieve the goals of the strategic priorities for ORIHI
- Ensures the appropriate recruitment and development of principal investigators, associated researchers, scientific staff and key leaders to meet ORIHI research strategic priorities. Promotes the development of scientific leaders who can foster the advancement of health research and effective translation of research activities into exemplary patient care
- Foster partnerships and develops networks focused on accelerating the transfer of existing and new research into clinical practice and that fost