Vice-president, Research and Innovation

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**Job Reference Number**: 25-CS-2

**Posting/Closing Date**: August 18, 2025 to September 19, 2025

**Workplace**: Polytechnique Montréal

**Department or Service**: CEO Office

**POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL**:
**Polytechnique Montréal is proud**
**to have been recognized by Mediacorp Canada as one of**
**“Montréal’s Top Employers” for 2025.**

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Polytechnique Montréal is an internationally recognized engineering university. Located in the heart of Montréal on Mount Royal, it is renowned for the high quality of the training offered at all levels, and for its multidisciplinary and multisectoral research, at the forefront of the local, national and international engineering.

Proud of its 150 years of history, it now welcomes more than 10,000 students and relies on the expertise of nearly 1,600 staff members with diverse skills, including more than 300 professors.

Polytechnique has been certified Gold by STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System). Polytechnique is known for its innovative approach, and its active role in technological, economic and social development. It values the diversity of its employees and adheres to an equal employment opportunity program for women, visible and ethnic minorities, Indigenous people and those with disabilities. Having received the Parity Certification from Women in Governance, it offers excellent working conditions, focusing on work-life balance and the well-being of its employees.

**ROLE**:
In this position, which reports to the President, you will be responsible for developing, implementing strategy, promoting and overseeing Polytechnique Montréal’s research, innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship activities. All of this enables the university to establish itself as a reference for sustainable progress and to strengthen its leadership position in fields in engineering and the applied sciences with high societal impact.

As a key partner of the executive team, you and your teams will lead all support and coordination activities in support of fundamental and applied research, innovation, entrepreneurship and development of the discoveries resulting from all these activities, with the aim of creating lasting alliances with academia, government and industry.

Additionally, your responsibilities will focus on expanding research activities aimed at training the graduate student community, achieving technological breakthroughs and scientific discoveries, and establishing partnerships. You will also be tasked with maintaining relations concerning research and innovation between Polytechnique and its governmental, institutional and industrial partners worldwide.

The following units report to this division:

- The _Direction associée innovation et impact_, including the _Bureau de la recherche et Centre de développement technologique (BRCDT)_,_ Bureau de la valorisation_, Propolys, as well as institutes and centres such as IMC2 (_Institut multidisciplinaire en cybersécurité et cyberrésilience)_, IET _(Institut de l’énergie Trottier_), _Institut Lassonde pour les innovations de rupture _and CITP (_Centre d’innovation sur les technologies propre_s);
- The _Bureau des partenariats en recherche_;
- The_ Bureau de l’éthique et de l’intégrité en recherche_.

In fulfilling your duties, you will need to demonstrate extensive knowledge of the national and international science and engineering ecosystem, strategic leadership and a keen understanding of how to support Polytechnique’s faculty, teams, research groups and graduate student research community. You are able to cultivate a collaborative and inclusive vision, and are dynamic and innovative. You have strong analytical and summarizing skills and are able to communicate, persuade and rally support.

**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Work closely with the university’s senior administrators, department heads, faculty members and research staff;
- Define and implement, together with their teams, the university’s vision and strategy for research, innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship, as well as their related objectives and action plans, and ensure accountability (references: Polytechnique Montréal’s Plan stratégique 2024-2028 (French only) and Plan de soutien à la recherche (French only);
- Establish and recommend a clear vision and prioritization of high-impact areas to be supported in order to enable the university to reach its full potential;
- Ensure, in close collaboration with the departments and the Coordinating Committee, funding through various mechanisms (grants, industrial or institutional partnerships, philanthropy, etc.), and the resources and support services necessary for the university’s research and innovation activities;
- Recommend Polytechnique’s development policies and strategies in the areas of research and innovation, technology transfer and entrepreneurship, based on society’s current and anticipated needs;
- Encourage and facilitate innovatio