Coordinator Business Development

**Req ID: 177240**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Central Zone, Corporate Office**
**Department: Research, Innovation and Discovery**
**Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date: 29-Apr-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health’s Research, Innovation and Discovery portfolio is transforming health care deliv
- ery and improving the health of all Nova Scotians by leading initiatives that deliver high-impact health care solutions and developing strategic partnerships with clinical champions, industry, healthcare foundations, governments and academic partners. By pairing leading researchers, innovators, and clinicians with entrepreneurs through our newly formed Health Innovation, Research and Discovery Hub, their creative solutions are improving health and health care while also contribute directly to Nova Scotia’s economy.

Reporting to the Manager of Business Development, the Business Development Coordinator is re
- sponsible for business development activities on behalf of Research and Innovation. The Coordinator will be supporting the development, and strategic and collaborative opportunities with partners from the private, public and research sectors. This role will interface with internal clinical departments to mobilize the launch of new services and demonstrate innovation thought leadership. Externally, the role will interface with the innovation ecosystem funders, private industry, academia, start-up compa
- nies, government departments, etc.

Under the leadership of the Manager of Business Development, the Business Development Coordi
- nator, will facilitate partnerships and collaborations, particularly with the private sector, that will result in increased resources to support research and innovation. The Business Development Coordinator will also support the Manager of B.D., Directors and R&I leadership team to ensure NS Health re
- ceives maximum benefit from the intellectual property generated by researchers The Business Devel
- priate policies regarding research agreements and implementations.

This role will be critical to establishing the infrastructure internally and the partnerships externally to support the introduction of new technologies and services at NS Health. It will leverage strategic thinking capabilities, business acumen, effective collaboration, and relationship development.

The position requires a combination of an understanding of research opportunities and business acu
- men. The Business Development Coordinator must be able to successfully work with external rela
- tionships with industry and government, particularly those elements of government responsible for economic development. It also requires the ability to build partnerships between research groups and clinical service units, and between NS Health and its other academic partners.

The Coordinator supports strategies and operational plans consistent with legislation, accountability frameworks and the mission, vision, and values of the organization. This position supports a provin
- cially integrated process and contributes to the development strategies and business practices to support the effective, efficient, and sustainable delivery of services and programs.

Under the direction of the Manager of Business Development, the Business Development Coordina
- tor ensures continuous improvement to advance a vision of excellence within his/her areas of respon
- sibility for the development, maintenance and monitoring of quality programs, and compliance with relevant legislation, standards and accreditation requirements.

**About the Opportunity**:
Commercialization, Technology Transfer & Research Group Development
- Secures relationships with internal innovators and researchers to make them aware of commercial potential for their research, both present and future, and guides inventors through invention disclosures, confidentiality issues and conflicts of interested considerations and provides guidance on opportunities related to entrepreneurship.
- Identifies and cultivates commercialization opportunities for intellectual property.
- Creates technical briefs for existing intellectual property for marketing said intell