Director

DIRECTOR

**OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES**

**Competition No.** 25.02.50

**CATEGORY**

**SALARY**

**CLOSING DATE**
- Full-Time Continuing (35 hours per week)
- $111,858 to $151,218 per annum
- March 10, 2025

**About Us**:

- MacEwan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton’s diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, MacEwan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, MacEwan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.

Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 19,000 full
- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, MacEwan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

**Opportunity**:
Key responsibilities include:

- Overseeing the coordination and administration of the CRC (Canada Research Chairs) program, ensuring compliance with national CRC standards;
- Managing and supporting the administration of the Research Support Fund (RSF) and SSHRC SIG programs, ensuring funds are allocated effectively;
- Ensuring that research activities comply with Tri-Agency (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC) regulations and ethical guidelines, including oversight of animal and human ethics reviews;
- Overseeing research security policies and research data management (RDM) practices to ensure compliance with privacy and security standards;
- Reviewing and updating research and creative activity related internal policies and procedures at MacEwan;
- Collaborating with the senior leadership to elevate the research profile of MacEwan University and contribute to the overall tactical direction of the research community;
- Developing and maintaining a framework to help guide researchers in identifying funding opportunities and navigating the submission process for external grants, including Tri-Agency funding;
- Monitoring the effectiveness of grant development strategies, providing feedback and support for continuous improvement in securing external research funding;
- Working with the AVPR and Associate Dean, Research, on execution and measurement of the tactical plan for scholarship that aligns with MacEwan’s strategic vision;
- Collaboratively supporting, sustaining, and growing capacity for EDI in research and creative activities and Indigenous research;
- Enhancing interdisciplinary proposals within and across Faculties/Schools and establish and maintain relationships with key funding agencies and other potential funders;
- Leading and managing the Research Grants Development and Research Ethics teams, fostering a positive and engaged team culture while ensuring effective service delivery;
- Providing strategic leadership to increase research capacity, enhance collaboration across faculties, and support research priorities through policy development and governance;
- Developing and maintaining business operations within the Office of Research Services and ensure alignment with other areas and departments of the University;
- Providing oversight and planning for staff hiring and onboarding, scheduling, compliance with health and safety, professional development planning, and delegation of responsibilities;
- Serving as a delegate for the AVPR in representing MacEwan’s research priorities, capabilities, and opportunities at external events, conferences, and meetings; and
- Advocating for MacEwan’s research agenda to external stakeholders, funding agencies, and policy makers, strengthening the university’s research presence and influence.

**SKILLS**:
You will have:

- Excellent communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills with diverse audiences that include faculty, students, professional networks and administration;
- Broad leadership skills including a visionary, detail-oriented, and highly collaborative work style, and the ability to strategically facilitate change and incorporate innovative practices into the organization;
- Strong working knowledge of most key aspects of post-secondary delivery, including both service and academic delivery;
- Current knowledge of Tri-Agency programs (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR), key federal programs (CFI, Canada Rese