Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader

Position Information-
- **Position Title**- Canada Impact+ Emerging Leader-
- **Posting Number**- F743P-
- **Type of position**- Tenure Stream-
- **Department/Unit**- VPRI Office-
- **Location**- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-
- **About the opportunity**-
- **About the Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders opportunity**- The program provides $100,000 dollars per year over six years to help institutions recruit and launch the research programs of exceptional early career researchers, with the possibility of a further six-year extension based on evidence of transformational research, partnership development and career progression.Please visit the **Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders website** for more details on the nomination process, including the timelines for submission.

**Impact+ Strategic priorities**- Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders are awarded in areas identified by the Government of Canada as critical to global and national challenges. These priorities closely parallel Dalhousie’s own research priorities and strengths and are reflected in the university’s **Strategic Research Clusters**. Applications must demonstrate how the proposed program will advance one or more of the following strategic priority areas:

- advanced digital technologies (including Artificial Intelligence, quantum and cybersecurity);
- clean technology and resource value chains;
- defence and dual-use technologies;
- democratic and community resilience;
- environment, climate resilience and the Arctic;
- food and water security;
- health and biotechnology; and
- manufacturing and advanced materials. Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders are expected to build meaningful partnerships across sectors and with Indigenous communities, and to ensure that research outcomes translate into practice, policy or commercialization pathways with measurable societal and economic benefit.

**Qualifications and Eligibility**-
- Be internationally based (working and residing outside Canada) at the time the linked Impact+ Research Chair award is accepted.
- Be an early career researcher within five years of their first independent research position.
- Work in one of Canada’s strategic priority areas and be positioned to build Demonstrate strong potential for transformational, translational research and the development of meaningful partnerships.Successful applicants will be appointed to an appropriate academic **department/school/faculty** at Dalhousie University.

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- **Associated positions for consideration**- **Canada Impact+ Research Chairs**- **Canada Research Chairs**-
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- **Why Dalhousie**- Dalhousie is the only East Coast member of Canada’s U15, the country’s leading group of research-intensive universities. With more than 250 million dollars in annual research funding, we are Atlantic Canada’s engine of discovery and innovation. Anchored in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with additional agricultural and medical campuses and academic and clinical programs across the province and beyond, we drive positive change in the communities we serve locally, nationally, and around the world.- Our faculty work within a highly collaborative research community supported by major infrastructure, including Canada’s largest aquatic research facility and advanced platforms accelerating discoveries in health and the physical sciences. Researchers contribute to and benefit from a growing network of centres, institutes, and hubs driving discovery and industry partnership in areas like battery innovation and clean technologies, carbon capture and storage, additive manufacturing, AI and semiconductors, vaccine and immunotherapy development, genomics, cancer treatment, and much more.
- We lead Canadian universities with an extensive ecosystem built to support research commercialization. Our researchers own and control their intellectual property. And, from idea to impact, we support researchers at every stage, whether developing and protecting IP, launching a startup, partnering with industry, or advancing social innovation.- Explore more on via our **Canada Impact+ Research Chairs website**.
- **How to Apply**
- To apply, applicants are asked to provide the following three documents:

- 1. A cover letter that identifies:

- Alignment with one or more of the strategic priority areas (listed above)
- The applicant’s start-up funding, infrastructure and space, and research team requirements
- The applicant’s interest in coming to Dalhousie, including any relevant connections to the university or the region- 2. A full curriculum vitae (please include details of research and teaching, scholarly record, funding, collaborations/partnerships with industry government, not-for-profit, and/or community, and leadership experience.
- 3. A Research Statement, submitted as a single PDF, including the following:

- A five-page (maximum) research statement that includes:

- An overview of the