Junior Researcher

**Position title**: Junior Researcher - Health

**Position type**:Full-time, indeterminate

**Location**:Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC; Edmonton, AB; Toronto, ON; remote work supported

**Reports to**:Business Lead or Project Manager on a project basis

**Supervised by**:Operations Manager or Delegate

**Salary range**:Competitive, commensurate with experience

**Application Deadline**:Position will remain open until filled

**Position start date**:ASAP

**Background**:
**Job Duties**:

- Research: _
- Assist with data coding and quote pulling.
- Conduct literature reviews based on academic and gray literature.
- Information management: _
- Manage information, including meeting and community engagement notes, audio, and video files.
- Update and track internal content management system (Sharefile) and support all team members to archive project-related documents and data effectively.
- Relationship building: _
- Maintain and build ongoing relations with community partners and organizations.
- Support completion of deliverables for diverse Indigenous communities and organizations.
- Report writing: _
- Perform regular reporting and documentation of community engagements.
- Assist with drafting and finalizing project reports, toolkits, briefs, evaluations, and other written documentation.
- Travel: _
- Work closely with Firelight researchers and travel to conduct research and interviews using Indigenous research methods that follow consistent documentation protocols.
- Other: _
- Support administrative duties, special projects, and other tasks as may be required.

**Qualifications**:

- Degree in social sciences (ideally relevant to health policy or Indigenous governance) - with experience in qualitative research, or commensurate experience.
- At least 1 year of experience in community-based research is preferred.

**Required Skills (applicants must provide evidence of these skills)**:

- Excellent writing and analytical skills.
- Experience coordinating projects and research teams.
- Ability to work within a fast-paced environment and communicate effectively to diverse audiences, including Indigenous communities and their members, existing and potential clients, funders, directors, associates, and internal staff.
- Strong attention to detail and highly proficient with information management systems and protocols.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

**Rated Skills** (applicants will be comparatively assessed on these skills):

- Ability to conduct training with community/client researchers.
- Knowledge and use of Indigenous research methodologies.
- Familiarity with health priorities and issues impacting Indigenous peoples in Canada.

**Firelight offers compensation commensurate with skills and training, within industry standard ranges. We offer a progressive, flexible workplace and the following benefits**:

- Professional development funds.
- Banking of earned overtime.
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits.
- Supplementary mental health benefit.
- Annual retirement savings plan contribution.
- Maternity and parental leave top-up.
- Childcare benefit.
- 4-Day Workweek.
- 2 weeks’ annual leave and 1 week of seasonal holiday in the last week of December.

**To apply**:Please respond to our online ad with a resume and cover letter addressed to Sonja Voyageur, HR Manager. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.

Firelight is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce and specifically to increasing the number of Indigenous employees within our organization. As a result, _we encourage all Indigenous applicants to self-identify in our recruitment and staffing processes and preference may be given to these applicants._

**Working at the Firelight Group means being passionate about what we do. Be part of our amazing team, with a very exciting future.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From $47,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

- Bonus pay
- Overtime pay

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flextime
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Overtime

COVID-19 considerations:
Home office accommodations; enhanced hygiene and health requirements of main office locations; ensuring limited sharing of space; vaccination required for work in-office or in-community.

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

**Experience**:

- community research: 1 year (preferred)