Program Coordinator

Position Information

**Position Title**
- Program Coordinator

**Department/Unit**
- Medical Neuroscience

**Research Project**
- Brain Repair Center Roadshow

**Location**
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

**Posting Number**
- GP01-25

**Employee Group**
- Grant-Paid

**Position Type**
- Term

**Duration of Contract (if applicable)**
- 12 months (with possibility of renewal for another 12 months)

**Employment Type**
- Full Time

**Full-time Equivalency (FTE)**
- 1.0

**Salary**
- $59,555 - $79,673 (for 35 hours/ week)

**About the Organization**
- Dalhousie University is Atlantic Canada’s leading research-intensive university and a driver of the region’s intellectual, social and economic development. Located in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an Agricultural Campus in Truro/Bible Hill, Dalhousie is a truly national and international university, with more than half of our 19,000 students coming from outside of the province. Our 6,000 faculty and staff foster a vibrant, purpose-driven community, that celebrated 200 years of academic excellence in 2018.
The **Brain Repair Centre (**BRC**)** is a research institute at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, involving more than 50 principal investigators, $9 million in annual outside funding, and 250 trainees and staff in various research pursuits. The BRC is building on a strong foundation of facilities, programs, talent and partnerships to attract the world’s best neuroscientists and become Canada’s premier centre for neuroscience research.

**Job Summary**
- Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and the Director of the Brain Repair Center, the Program Coordinator oversees the design, development, oversight, implementation and evaluation of the Neuroscience Roadshow program in the Faculty of Medicine. To increase our capacity to promote brain health throughout Nova Scotia, the BRC is developing a “Neuroscience Roadshow” to bring a **hands-on neuroscience educational experience to high school students throughout the province**. This program will be in partnership with non-profit organizations. In addition, the curriculum will be developed with support from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD).

**Key Responsibilities**
- Oversee all elements of management, design, implementation of the BRC Neuroscience Roadshow.
- Provide regular updates to the project team and communicate other items as they arise to project team members.
- Supervise tasks and deliverables to implement the project.
- Coordination of promotion of the project through media, websites and partner sites in the high school districts.
- Ensure engagement with the partners.

**Note**

**Required Qualifications**
- Undergraduate degree in Education with five years of experience in related field, including developing, training and coordinating educational programs.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills, and effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, act resourcefully, and think creatively and critically to solve complex problems.
- Demonstrated commitment to ethical conduct including records management, privacy, and confidentiality.

**Assets**
- Experience working in high schools.
- Knowledge of the current guidelines and policies of Dalhousie University.

**Additional Information**
- Dalhousie University supports a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Our total compensation package includes a voluntary _RRSP_, health and dental plans and an employee and family assistance program._

**Application Consideration**

**Diversity Statement**

Posting Detail Information

**Number of Vacancies**
- 1

**Open Date**
- 01/15/2025

**Close Date**
- 01/22/2025

**Open Until Filled**
- No

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