Research Associate

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

**Education Level**
Doctoral degree in a relevant field of study

**Career Level**
Experienced

**Research Associate (I)**

JD 0550

**Job Summary**: Responsible for planning, managing, and overseeing a large, multi-site, multi-disciplinary research program, with the potential to compose, lead, and conduct research as an independent investigator or as a co-investigator within a faculty member's program. Develops collaborations and partnerships with research user groups to help shape research directions and ensure effective research transfer.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Initiate, design, and lead a research program.
- Formulate research questions and generate and test hypotheses.
- Make significant contributions to the design of a research program to answer questions and solve complex research problems.
- Publish results as first author in scientific peer-reviewed journals.
- Author scientific papers, funding proposals, and abstracts.
- Write research proposals, submit proposals to external funding agencies, and secure funding to conduct research through grants and contracts.
- Plan and coordinate all aspects of a major research program across multiple sites.
- Develop inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, and inter-sectoral research collaborations.
- Negotiate research agreements and subcontracts to meet site and coordinating centre requirements.
- Develop budget for a research program.
- Implement and maintain a research program budget.
- Create financial projections and make adjustments to a research program budget throughout the fiscal year.
- Troubleshoot problems at all stages of program development and implementation and modify protocol or program procedures to address challenges.
- Participate with a team in the development and authoring of research protocols.
- Design a promotional strategy and related materials to encourage participation and support for a research program.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative program participant interviews.
- Facilitate focus group sessions with program participants.
- Coordinate and manage the collection, delivery, entry, verification, analysis, and reporting of data.
- Oversee the design of data management systems.
- Develop estimates of time and resources for a research program.
- Use statistical software to analyze complex data and interpret results.
- Liaise between the program centre and remote program sites and personnel.
- Develop presentations and present at meetings, seminars, and conferences.
- Conduct literature searches.

**Supervision**:

- Provide lead hand supervision and is responsible for the quality and quantity of work of others.
- Ongoing responsibility for supervising up to 9 casual employees at any one time.

**Qualifications**:

- Doctoral degree in a relevant field of study.
- Requires 7 years of relevant experience.

**Additional Information**:

- high attention to detail, strong organizational and team-work skills;
- excellent written and oral communication skills;
- time management skills;
- flexibility and willingness to learn; and,
- proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook, Statistical software of SAS, Stata, or R is required, as well as experience working with data collection software.

Travel may be required as part of this role for data collection or presentation of research.

**How To Apply**

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- 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

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