Post Doctoral Fellow

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Posting # - RI-25-036**

**Posting Period - July 10 to July 30, 2025**

**POSITION: Post-Doctoral Fellow,**Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group

**New Position**

**TERM**:2-Year Contract, Full-time (FTE 1.0)

**SALARY**:Will be commensurate with skills and experience

**REPORTS TO**:Gary Goldfield, PhD, C. Psych Senior Scientist, CHEO RI, HALO Group
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Human Kinetics, and Psychology, University of Ottawa

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute Inc. (“CHEO RI”) is the research arm of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre (“CHEO”) and an affiliated institute of the University of Ottawa. We acknowledge that Ottawa is built on un-ceded Algonquin Anishinabek territory. The Algonquin Anishinabek Nation have lived on this territory for millennia and we honour them and this land. Their culture and presence have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. CHEO RI also honours all First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and their valuable past and present contributions to this land. CHEO is a beloved institution and workplace that is widely recognized for being an anchor in our community. CHEO RI works to create new knowledge and evidence to support CHEO in its provision of world-class care to our children. Our mission at CHEORI is to connect exceptional talent and technology in pursuit of life-changing research for every child, youth and family in our community and beyond.

The **HALO (Healthy Active Living and Obesity) Research Group** is located within the CHEO RI (Ottawa, Canada). The team is comprised of epidemiologists, exercise physiologists, and psychologists and clinician-scientists and several research staff and students, specializing in research pertaining to identifying risk and protective factors of childhood obesity, poor mental health, physical health, and screen time in children and adolescents. HALO Research Group is committed to high-quality and rigorous research, with focus on innovation, prevention, and treatment-based research.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provide leadership and assist with various research activities including but not limited to participant screening, recruitment, obtaining informed consent, protocol development, intervention delivery, data collection, and data analysis.
- Provide leadership in disseminating knowledge through writing peer-reviewed manuscripts from existing databases and presentations at conferences.
- Provide leadership for refining submissions to Research Ethics Board (REB) and regulatory authorities (Health Canada).
- Responsible for producing various study-related materials including communication and study progress reports.
- Co-supervising/mentoring graduate students and junior team members.
- Maintain communications with all researchers, research staff and community partners as required.
- Liaise as necessary with project stakeholders both within CHEO and externally.
- Participate in HALO Research Group meetings and other meetings as required.
- Keep all mandatory training up to date.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by supervisor.

**QUALIFICATIONS, SKILL AND ABILITIES**
- Recently (or all but dissertation) completed University PhD degree in a relevant field (Essential)
- Background in child and youth mental health, obesity, lifestyle behaviours (preferred)
- Experience with related research project coordination/management (Essential)
- Experience with scientific writing (Essential)
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills (Essential)
- Strong analytic skills and outstanding individual initiative in an organized fashion (Essential)
- Strong skills in quantitative research and data analysis (Essential)
- Demonstrated initiative, flexibility, a high degree of autonomy, and leadership potential (Essential)
- Capable of effectively handling multiple priorities simultaneously (Essential)
- Strong work ethic and motivation (Essential)
- Demonstrated collegiality, professionalism and team skills (Essential)
- English (Essential)
- Bilingualism (French and English) (preferred)

**WORKING CONDITIONS**
- Ability to work in a hybrid work model that would include both remote work and on-site work.
- Able to work in a dynamic environment and be able to effectively multi-task many competing priorities
- Able to work well a team as well as independently

**OTHER REQUIREMENTS**
- Eligible to work in Canada
- Compliance with CHEO RI’s Universal COVID-19 Vaccination Policy
- Police Record Check

**PERSONAL SUITABILITY**

**TO APPLY**

CHEO RI does not use Artificial Intelligence in our recruitment and selection process.

Applications will only be considered from those that are eligible to work in Canada. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those invited for an interview will be contacted.

**DESCRIPTION DE POSTE Affichage RI-25-036**

**Période d’affichage - Du 10 juillet au 30 juillet, 2025*