Research Assistant

**Req ID**:203357**
**Location**:Central** Zone,**Centre for Clinical Research - QEII**
**Department**:RSH MSSU 892083**
**Type of Employment**:Casual**Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%**) x**1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:13-Aug-25**

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**:
The Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU), formed in 2013, is one of eleven geographically based research units across Canada designed to provide methodological, data, knowledge translation and capacity building activities that facilitate the conduct of high-quality research to improve the health of the people living in the Maritime Provinces. By design, the MSSU addresses the health research priorities of government and provincial health authorities, while also serving as a resource to health researchers and the public. The MSSU is dedicated to supporting patient-oriented research and decision-making that will reflect the needs and values of Maritime patients.

The MSSU functions as a Maritime organization designed to build health research resources, to focus on collaborative opportunities and to perform research projects based in two or three provinces. In addition, each province has its own node that functions somewhat independently to support research projects that take place predominantly within the single province. These provincial nodes are supported by provincial advisory committees that oversee the research related activities taking place in each provincial node. The MSSU has staff located in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton, New Brunswick; and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

The MSSU Research Assistant works under the direction of the Research Manager and supports the Director of Research in the research activities of the MSSU. The Research Assistant is responsible for managing the administrative duties for multiple research projects simultaneously and is a contributing member of multi-disciplinary research teams.

The following are the primary responsibilities of the Research Assistant:
**Research Support**
- Coordinate and implement key research activities, including data collection (qualitative and quantitative), data analysis and literature reviews.
- Manage tasks of concurrent projects with shifting priorities and deadlines

**Administrative Support**
- Provide general administrative support for research teams, including coordination, scheduling, preparing documents and maintaining records.
- Coordinate logistics for meetings, including booking meeting spaces, arranging catering and managing invitations, as required.
- Attend, record and distribute minutes for meetings, as required

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

- Completion of a relevant Bachelor’s degree with experience in research required.
- Master’s degree in a health research, health services, or related field preferred (e.g., Epidemiology, Psychology, Public Health).
- Minimum of one (1) year experience in a research environment required
- Previous experience in a health care / research setting considered an asset
- Experience managing administrative tasks for multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience with patient engagement and / or public relations an asset
- Demonstrated oral and written fluency in English required
- Demonstrated problem solving and decision-making skills
- Competence in using scientific journal search engines (PubMed, Ovid, Google Scholar) an asset
- Competence with data analysis software (SPSS, STATA, R, SAS) preferred
- Management and analysis of quantitative data (e.g., descriptive statistics, parametric and non-parametric tests) preferred
- Experience conducting interviews or focus groups an asset
- Competence with reference manager software (Endnote, Mendeley) an asset
- Experience with the preparation of materials for reports, presentations, papers, and other knowledge translation materials as appropriate an asset
- Well-developed organizational, time management and daily planning skills
- Ability to work well independently as well as within a multi-disciplinary, multi-site team environment
- Ability to deal with a wide variety of people and personalities in a professional manner
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

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