Strategic Initiatives and Research Program Coordinator

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Posting # RI-25-031**

**Posting Period - June 18 to July 3, 2025**

**POSITION**: Strategic Initiatives and Research Connection Program Coordinator

Office of Research Services

**New Position**

**TERM**: Full-time (1.0FTE) Permanent Position

**SALARY**:From $36.00 to $42.00 per hour, Will be commensurate with skills and experience

**REPORTS TO**: H.J. Jardine, Director of Research Integration and Innovation

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute Inc. (“CHEO RI”) is the research arm of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre (“CHEO”) and an affiliated institute of the University of Ottawa. We acknowledge that Ottawa is built on un-ceded Algonquin Anishinabek territory. The Algonquin Anishinabek Nation have lived on this territory for millennia and we honour them and this land. Their culture and presence have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. CHEO RI also honours all First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and their valuable past and present contributions to this land. CHEO is a beloved institution and workplace that is widely recognized for being an anchor in our community. CHEO RI works to create new knowledge and evidence to support CHEO in its provision of world-class care to our children. Our mission at CHEO RI is to connect exceptional talent and technology in pursuit of life-changing research for every child, youth, and family in our community and beyond.

The CHEO Research Strategy “Where Discovery Takes Root: Shaping a Healthier Tomorrow at CHEO and Beyond” serves as the blueprint for continued research excellence and growth at CHEO over the next four years. More than 500 members of the CHEO and CHEO Research community, including patients and families, contributed to the new strategy through focus groups, strategy hive sessions and surveys. Inspired by the CHEO children, youth and families we serve, CHEO researchers will continue to ask the important questions and make the groundbreaking discoveries that inspire the best life of every child and youth.

A key initiative of the CHEO Research Strategy has been the permission to contact program, known as Research Connection, which connects families to research opportunities at CHEO. It allows CHEO Research Institute approved researchers, acting as agents of CHEO, to contact CHEO families, children and youth directly to ask if they would like to learn more about a specific study that they are matched to based on eligibility criteria. Research Connection helps improve awareness and access to research opportunities by connecting researchers and families, removing barriers to research, and making research recruitment more equitable. In turn, this helps improve the quality of research at CHEO, which benefits all children and youth.

**CHEO RI is searching for a Strategic Initiatives and Research Connection Program Coordinator to join the Office of Research Services team.**

The Strategic Initiatives and Research Connection Program Coordinator will play a valuable role in the planning and execution of strategic initiatives and the ongoing management and continuous improvement of the Research Connection program.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

The Strategic Initiatives and Research Connection Program Coordinator will be responsible for:

- Integrating and coordinating project plans to create consistent, coherent documents used to guide both project execution and project control.
- Executing the project plan, including coordinating the involved parties in the initiative.
- Managing strong healthy relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that project delivery expectations are clearly defined and met.
- Coordinating changes across an entire project (i.e., influence the factors that create change to ensure that the change is agreed upon; determine that a change has occurred; and manage the actual change when and as it occurs).
- Identifying the specific activities that must be performed to produce the various project deliverables.
- Determining the resources (e.g., people, equipment, materials) and quantities required to perform activities.
- Developing an estimated approximation of the costs of the project.
- Evaluating overall project performance on a regular basis to provide updates on project status and mitigation plans as required.
- Determining the information and communications needed by the stakeholders (e.g., who needs what information, when they need it, and how it will be given to them.
- Monitoring project risks, identify new risks, execute risk reduction plans, and evaluate their effectiveness throughout the project life cycle.
- Developing and delivering presentations, reports, proposals, briefing notes, or other as needed.
- Working alongside CHEO RI/CHEO leadership and researchers, Research Informatics, Information Services (IS), Privacy, Research Ethics Board (REB) and communications to manage and continuously improve the program.
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