Research Project Coordinator Analyst

**Req ID**:187701**
**Location**:Provincial** Zone, **Bethune Building - QEII**
**Department**:Research, Innovation & Discovery**
**Type of Employment**:Casual** **Hourly FT long-assignment** (**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.

Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) provides sustainable safe and high-quality health services that are accessible, people-centred, promote health and wellness and optimize the health of all Nova Scotians. This is accomplished across four geographic management zones which are responsible for the operation of acute care health centres and the provision of a variety of inpatient, outpatient services including academic, tertiary, quaternary care and community-based programs and services including continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions.

The Nova Scotia Health Cancer Care Program (NSH CCP) is a population-based cancer control program responsible for the provision, monitoring and evaluation of services which span the continuum from primary prevention, through screening, diagnosis, treatment, and care, to survivorship, and to palliative and end-of-life care. Given the growing burden of cancer on our population, a proactive, coordinated, and comprehensive cancer program that addresses the cancer demand but that also aims to reduce the burden of this disease is essential for our future. The goal is the provision of sustainable, effective, and timely cancer control services across the continuum and across all age groups.

Due to the complexity of cancer care, not all cancer control services will fall under the NSH CCP. There is a need to function in a highly collaborative fashion, so all sectors of the health system are engaged and involved. Therefore, the NSH CCP has links to the IWK and works closely with partners within the NSH, primary care, specialized population-based services, specialized health care and community services, and government departments as required to provide safe, quality care in the most appropriate settings.

**About the Opportunity**:
**Accountabilities**:
Planning and Coordination:

- Conducts systematic/scoping reviews of the literature
- Reviews examples of relevant best practice in relevant areas
- Assisting in report composition
- Consults with researchers and system stakeholders in the identification and/or development of outcome measures
- Consults with the PI and research teams in the identification and/or development of outcome measures
- Educates and updates research team and health system staff on study/project protocols
- Plans, develops and co-ordinates projects in consultation with PI and key stakeholders.
- Participates in the development and analysis of grant-funded study protocols
- Prepares documents for the submission to the REB for study/project approval and closure

Study/Project Administration:

- Coordinates one or more projects/studies for the Program
- Educates and updates research team and system stakeholders on study/project protocols
- Participates in various integrated knowledge translation/mobilization activities and meetings with the PI
- Maintains communication with Research Ethics Board (REB) throughout the study
- Confers with the PI and sponsor representatives on project/study progress, compliance and interpretation
- Assists in orienting new Research staff as required
- Delegates and/or directs the work of Research Associates/Assistants
- Implements methodologies

Data Management and Analysis:

- Enters and summarizes data and using database and/or spreadsheets
- Accesses available routine databases
- Analyses data using qualitative and quantitative data software/packages
- Maintains, stores and retrieves study documentation

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

- Master’s degree in a health sciences or social sciences discipline (e.g., psychology, epidemiology, community/public health) required
- Minimum of three years research experience and/or project coordination required
- Familiarity with qualitative/quantitative analysis software package such as NVivo, SAS, R required
- Familiarity with health research required
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Outstanding attention to