Career Programming Research Coordinator

**Schedule**
Monday to Friday; 10 hours per week

**Education Level**
Completed a relevant post-secondary degree

**Career Level**
Minimum of 12 months experience

Science Career and Cooperative Education is partnering with the Faculty of Science Department of Graduate Studies to deliver career programming that is uniquely tailored to the specific needs of Science students at the graduate level. Committed to partnership, we are designing programming in collaboration with students and focused on their unique needs. We approach this challenge from a data-driven perspective informed by core values of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

A researcher will design and administer a needs analysis of current graduate students to develop an understanding of their career goals, self-assessed skills, and preferred programming mechanisms by which their career and skill objectives can be met. The needs analysis will be supported by user testing prior to execution, including collaboration with staff and groups that support equity-seeking students in order to provide an opportunity for a range of diverse voices. The research coordinator will promote the needs assessment to students to reach a target response rate of 50% of Science graduate students.

Following the data collection phase the research coordinator and the Program Manager, Career Development will collaborate on analyzing the results and developing a strategy for career development programming for the remainder of the academic year. The efficacy of the needs assessment will be assessed, with recommendations to inform the annual implementation of this exercise.

This project will make an immediate impact on the student experience within the current academic year by identifying which resources, workshops, speaker events, etc will deliver the most impact and best align with graduate student goals and interests, with the goal of supporting graduate student career readiness in fulfillment of our SMA3 graduate employability commitment. It is also highly scalable, as we hope to develop SOPs that will be soon be extended to undergraduate science students as well. This will considerably extend the reach of the project by supporting the employability and student experience of 8000 undergraduate science students in achieving SMA3 metrics. Future scalability may include the development of more sophisticated and game-ified approaches to the needs assessment activity.

Job Summary:
Provides specialized research support to faculty members in their teaching/ laboratory activities. Work is performed independently.

Accountabilities:
1. Designs, adapts and performs specialized research procedures.
2. Carries out complex statistical analysis.
3. Assists with recruiting participants for studies.
4. Coordinates and conducts structured project participant interviews and focus groups.
5. Conducts literature reviews and synthesis.
6. Coordinates the use of laboratory equipment.
7. Records, classifies, and summarizes research data according to established procedures.
8. Performs other related tasks as outlined by the research coordinator.

Qualifications:
Education: Completed a relevant post-secondary degree.

Experience: Minimum of 12 months experience.
Assets:

- Current or former graduate student experience is an asset
- Demonstrated knowledge or experience in the career education, professional development, or student success programming
- Demonstrated commitment to EDI principles
- Experience designing, administering, analyzing needs assessments for specific populations

**How To Apply**

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The diversity of our workforce is at the core of our innovation and creativity and strengthens our research and teaching excellence. In keeping with its Statement on Building an Inclusive Community with a Shared Purpose, McMaster University strives to embody the values of respect, collaboration and diversity, and has a strong commitment to employment equity.

Job applicants requiring accommodation to participate in the hiring process should contact:

- Human Resources Service Centre at 905-525-9140 ext. 222-HR (22247), or
- Faculty of Health Sciences HR Office at ext. 22207, or
- School of Graduate Studies at ext. 23679

to communicate accommodation needs.

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