Research Associate

**Competition Number**
- P16196

**Posting Title**
- Research Associate

**Classification**
- Unclassified

**Location**
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic Saskatoon Campus

**Other Location(s)**

**Building**

**Other Building**

**Date Posted**
- 01/30/2025

**Closing Date**
- 02/20/2025

**JIQ #**

**Start Date**
- 01/10/2025

**End Date**
- 06/30/2025

**Open Until Filled**
- No

**Ongoing**
- No

**Category of work**
- Part Time

**Bargaining Unit**
- Unclassified

**Hours of Work**
- To be Assigned

**Salary Range**
- As per unclassified exempt grid

**Temporary Market Stipend**

**Incumbent**

**Total Assigned days (AC) / Total Hours per biweekly pay**
- to be assigned

**Posting Status**
- Open
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic considers the diversity of our workforce to be one our leading strengths and greatest assets. A continued emphasis on the development of a representative workforce is one of Sask Polytech’s strategic priorities and, as an organization, we are making significant efforts to attract and retain Indigenous employees._

**Job Duties/Qualifications, Skills and Abilities(QSA)**:

- Job Duties

**Job Duties**
- We are looking for a Research Associate to lead a project for the Office of Applied Research and Innovation Our project, _A_ _Social Impact Hub scoping and feasibility study_, will explore viable options for Saskatchewan Polytechnic to implement a Social Impact Hub (SIH). We use SIH as a catch-all term for coordinated structures within institutions that provide a range of services and resources related to ‘Social’ issues. Variously, SIHs provide services and resources relating to
- Equity and diversity
- Student and staff health and wellness
- Integrating EDI into programming, policies and processes
- Community partnerships and applied research to tackle urgent social challenges in our communities
- Also relevant, and normally captured under “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion”, is:
- Reconciliation.

We think this worth separating out and highlighting, as this is an area where Saskatchewan Polytechnic could be a National leader by adopting Reconciliation as a founding principle of an institutional SIH.- QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND EXPERIENCE

**Specific Accountabilities**

**In the appointment of Research Associate, general duties and responsibilities will be as follows**:

- Conduct a literature review to provide essential project context
- Establish collegial working relationships with industry partners and colleagues
- Coordinate an advisory committee, administer and run committee meetings
- Engage internal and external stakeholders to gather relevant information
- Review internal staffing, strategies, policies and processes relevant to the project
- Synthesize information gathered and assist with reporting
- Direct the day-to-day work of 1-2 Student Research Assistants
- Troubleshoot problems interfering with the project’s success

**Duties**

**Required Qualifications, Skills and Abilities (QSA)**
- Completed, or currently enrolled in a postgraduate program (PhD preferred) in fields related to social impact and social justice
- Alternatively, significant experience in the field of social impact and provision of services and resources relating to equity, diversity, inclusion and reconciliation
- Demonstrates valuing diversity
- Effective communication skills
- Demonstrates experience in qualitative research, and data analysis and synthesis
- Experience working independently to meet established deadlines
- Ability to function as a team member in an ever-changing environment

**Desired QSA