Research Coordinator

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $33.66 - $48.38 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
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Detailed Overview:
**Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families**:
The Research Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of study research activities. Under general direction of the Principal Investigator (PI), and working collaboratively with the research team, coordinates all research activities to support the successful completion of the research project (i.e. to ensure that project timelines and milestones are being met). Responsibilities include preparing and maintaining ethical and institutional approvals; data collection, analysis and reporting; oversight of grant budget and expenditures; grant proposal preparation; research dissemination/knowledge translation; and administrative support such as coordinating research meetings, planning agendas and recording meeting minutes.

**Responsibilities**:

- Coordinates and conducts study-related research activities for Fraser Health.
- Provides assistance to the PI in the development and design of evaluation processes and procedures and research protocols for funded studies.
- Assists the PI in the design and implementation of research protocol, tracking the progress of research activities against planned timelines and milestones.
- Coordinates and implements all aspects of data collection and source documentation for each study to ensure quality and integrity of data.
- Maintains, monitors, calculates, processes, and summarizes financial data, records, and information for projects.
- Provides direction and leadership to research related staff, including the supervision of students and volunteers, within the scope of the projects, as appropriate.
- Facilitates ongoing communication among researchers within FH and other health authorities.
- Maintains an awareness of new developments and trends through literature reviews, contact with peers at other organizations, and attendance at seminars, workshops, and education programs, as appropriate.
- Supports knowledge dissemination activities through the preparation of grant proposals, research presentations and posters, project summaries and manuscripts for publication.
- Provides other administrative support functions including arranging internal/external meetings as required by booking rooms, notifying participants, confirming attendance, ordering catering, preparing agenda, conferences and seminars; prepares and distributes handouts and overheads; makes travel arrangements as necessary; maintains and organizes appointment calendars; records, prepares and distributes minutes and agenda; follows up on action items as required.

Qualifications:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:
Baccalaureate degree in a health sciences or related discipline plus three years of related research experience including project management working with multi-disciplinary research teams, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

**COMPETENCIES