Research Associate

**Schedule**
Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm

**Education Level**
Doctoral degree in a relevant field of study.

**Career Level**
Requires 7 years of relevant experience.

Should the successful applicant be a Unifor Unit 1 bargaining unit member, who meets the eligibility conditions of Article 19.02 of the Unifor Unit 1 Collective Agreement, then the Limited Term Assignment will be defined as a Career Growth Opportunity in accordance with Article 19 of the Unifor Local 5555 Unit 1 Collective Agreement.

**JD #**

JD00550

**Pay Grade**

12

**Title:
**Research Associate (I)

**Unit/Project Description**:

- For Department use only._

The Department of Medicine is seeking an experience Research Associate.

**Job Summary:
**Responsible for planning, managing, and overseeing a large, multi-site, multi-disciplinary research program, with the potential to compose, lead, and conduct research as an independent investigator or as a co-investigator within a faculty member's program. Develops collaborations and partnerships with research user groups to help shape research directions and ensure effective research transfer.

**Purpose and Key Functions:
- Initiate, design, and lead a research program.
- Formulate research questions and generate and test hypotheses.
- Make significant contributions to the design of a research program to answer questions and solve complex research problems.
- Publish results as first author in scientific peer-reviewed journals.
- Author scientific papers, funding proposals, and abstracts.
- Write research proposals, submit proposals to external funding agencies, and secure funding to conduct research through grants and contracts.
- Plan and coordinate all aspects of a major research program across multiple sites.
- Develop inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, and inter-sectoral research collaborations.
- Negotiate research agreements and subcontracts to meet site and coordinating centre requirements.
- Develop budget for a research program.
- Implement and maintain a research program budget. Create financial projections and make adjustments to a research program budget throughout the fiscal year.
- Troubleshoot problems at all stages of program development and implementation and modify protocol or program procedures to address challenges.
- Participate with a team in the development and authoring of research protocols.
- Design a promotional strategy and related materials to encourage participation and support for a research program.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative program participant interviews.
- Facilitate focus group sessions with program participants.
- Coordinate and manage the collection, delivery, entry, verification, analysis, and reporting of data.
- Oversee the design of data management systems.
- Develop estimates of time and resources for a research program.
- Use statistical software to analyze complex data and interpret results.
- Liaise between the program centre and remote program sites and personnel.
- Develop presentations and present at meetings, seminars, and conferences.
- Conduct literature searches.

**Supervision:
- Provide lead hand supervision and is responsible for the quality and quantity of work of others.
- Ongoing responsibility for supervising up to 9 casual employees at any one time.

**Requirements:
- Doctoral degree in a relevant field of study.
- Requires 7 years of relevant experience.

**Assets**:

- For Department use only._
- Experience with establishing methodologies and completing detailed data analysis related to assessing indirect calorimetry in rodents and humans.
- Experience with genomic bioinformatics and use of open access data bases linked to clinical phenotypes.
- Adept at computer programming, data analysis in Linux and R and establishing and maintaining servers for storage of big data.
- Advanced experience using a wide variety of molecular metabolic phenotyping skillsets in pre-clinical animal models.
- Strong written and oral communication skills and a track record of peer-reviewed publications in metabolic diseases.

**How To Apply**

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Job applicants requiring accommodation to participate in the hiring process should contact:

- Human Resources Service Centre at 905-525-9140 ext. 222-HR (22247), or
- Faculty of Health Sciences HR Office at ext. 22207, or
- School of Graduate Studies at ext. 23679

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