Research Project Coordinator

**Req ID**:187521**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Corporate Office**
**Department**:Research, Innovation & Discovery**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%**) x **1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:18-Sep-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Principal Investigator and Research Manager, the Project/Program Coordinator is responsible for the coordination of projects conducted within the Research department. This includes the administration of related projects, support for clinicians, literature reviews, report composition and database management including accessing, linkage and analysis of data derived from clinical, routine and population databases.

**Accountabilities**:
Planning and Coordination:

- Conducts systematic reviews of the literature
- Reviews examples of relevant best practice in relevant areas
- Assisting in report composition ( including project charters and proposals etc.)
- Consults with clinicians in the identification and/or development of outcome measures and evaluation frameworks
- Works closely with Manager and program office team in program/project management
- Support site visits for clinician training and education (policy, standardization etc.)
- Lead and participate in implementation meetings and facilitate work group meetings
- Preparation of documents and surveys (i.e., forms, manuals, meeting slides, reports, checklists, etc.)
- Communication support, including development of newsletters and other communication material.
- Educates and updates clinical teams on study/project protocols
- Plans, develops and co-ordinates projects/programs in consultation with key stakeholders.
- Participates in the development and analysis of grant funded study protocols
- Assists clinical staff in the development and implementation of program/project plans and protocols
- Provides initial review and assessment of protocol synopsis to determine study feasibility
- Prepares documents for the submission to the REB for study/project approval and closure
- Ensures adequate financial support from sponsor to conduct study in conjunction with Director and Centre for Clinical Research (CCR) Administration
- Manages study budgets in conjunction with Manager
- Monitors project timelines and milestones to align with program/project deliverables
- Determines human, material and fiscal resources required to fulfil protocol/program management in conjunction with the Manager and Program Office
- Develops consent form in consultation with REB and the sponsor and /or Program Office Team
- Confers with the key stakeholders and representatives on project progress, compliance and interpretation

Study/Project Administration:

- Coordinates one major program in multiple sites with one or more parallel projects/studies
- Educates and updates hospital staff on study/project protocols
- Maintains communication with Research Ethics Board (REB) and or Research Methods Unit as needed
- Assists in orienting new Research staff as required
- Implements methodologies

Data Management and Analysis:

- Works with Data programmer to develop databases
- Enters and summarizes data and using database and/or spreadsheets
- Accesses available routine databases
- Links clinical and routine databases
- Liaises with programmers on production of required data sets
- Analyses data using statistical packages including multivariate analysis
- Maintains, stores and retrieves study documentation

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Masters in a health sciences or social sciences discipline (e.g. epidemiology, community/public health, biostatistics or health economics)
- Degree or diploma in a related health profession (eg. Nurse, Allied Health, Psychology, etc) or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience may be accepted
- Minimum of two years' experience in the relevant health profession
- Experience in database management and analysis
- Previous research experience essential
- Previous program management experience essential
- Current registration with the relevant professional healthcare licensing organization desirable
- Proficiency in at least one statistical analysis software package (e.g. SPSS, Epi-info, SAS,