Research Associate

Position Profile:
**RESEARCH ASSOCIATE**:
**Location**:Wilson site, Humber River Health, Toronto

**Type**: Fulltime, permanent

**Start date**: Position available immediately, start date to be discussed

**Reports to**: Manager of Research Operations

**THE BASICS**:
Are you excited by the thought of shaping the future of healthcare in Canada? Do you want to join a growing team which aims to make transformative changes to the healthcare system?

We are looking for an awesome

We look forward to hearing from you.

**WHAT YOU'LL DO**:

- Make significant contributions to the design of research studies to answer questions and solve complex research problems.
- Develop, review, and evaluate research proposals, including their feasibility.
- Work with Research Chair and relevant co-investigators to develop viable research project ideas and to turn them into well-designed research studies
- Support Research Chair to analyze collected research data.
- Lead/assist in the writing of manuscripts for submission to academic journals.
- Present research results at academic conferences.
- Develop educational and training workshops on specific research methods.
- Support family medicine residents in developing academic projects.
- Provides ad hoc supervision/training of graduate students, summer students, and junior research support staff.

**WHY YOU WANT TO BE HERE**:

- We’re a growing team looking to lead the digital healthcare space in Canada.
- You’ll join one of the most forward-thinking digital hospitals in the country.
- You’ll be exposed to some of the coolest healthcare technologies today, including Canada’s first hospital-based command centre, a closed-loop robotic pharmacy, and a cutting-edge program in robotic surgery.

**WHO YOU ARE**:

- Undergraduate degree in health sciences or related field.
- Graduate degree: PhD in clinical epidemiology, health services, health policy or related research fields.
- Required:

- Managing multiple research projects and teams of various scopes and sizes (5 years)
- MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)
- Experience with reference management software
- Graduate level training in relevant research methods
- Knowledge & Applied Experience in Research best practices
- Experience writing as first author in peer-reviewed, scientific journals
- Understanding of the Canadian healthcare system
- Collaborative, interpersonal, creative, committed to research integrity, leadership, diplomacy
- Relationship building with participants, principal investigators, all levels of management and leadership staff, physician and all stakeholders involved in the research process
- Preferred:

- Expertise in qualitative research, policy analysis, clinical trials, evidence synthesis, administrative data sets, electronic medical record data, and/or other big data sets (5 years)
- Strong data management, analytical and scientific writing skills
- Expertise in qualitative research methodologies, clinical trials, and / or observational studies using administrative data
- Experience with executing research studies in the areas of chronic pain, mental health, and/or substance use

**HOW TO APPLY - READ **CAREFULLY**:
If you are interested, please submit a
**single PDF** file with
**all** the following components:

- Cover letter describing your experience, research interests, and why you’d be perfect in this role.
- Academic CV.

Upload this
**single PDF** file where our recruiting system instructs you to upload your
**resume (except you’ll have the cover letter in there too)**.

This is in the JD as “Review research proposals and evaluate their feasibility.”

This is in the JD as “Work with researchers and clinician-scientists to develop viable research project ideas” and “Work with researchers and clinician-scientists to turn ideas into well-designed research studies”

This is in the JD as “Help researchers and clinician-scientists analyze collected research data.”

**Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Humber River Hospital, all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada (e.g., two doses of a two-dose vaccine series, or one dose of a single-dose vaccine series); AND have received the final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days prior to the hired employee’s first date of employment Medical exemptions or any other kind of requested exemption based upon the Hospital’s obligations pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis