Research Coordinator I MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions

Dr. Nav Persaud’s research program in the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St Michael’s Hospital is hiring a Research Coordinator I.

The role of the Research Coordinator I is to coordinate the day-to-day coordination of research activities and implementation of projects involving clinical trials and qualitative methodologies, and assist with the development of future projects. This individual supports communications, and operations of programs. Examples of the kind of work include coordinating clinical trial recruitment and data collection.

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Duties & Responsibilities:

Administrative Duties (50% of work time)

• Coordinates projects
• Creates procedures or manuals
• Organizes, facilitates, and runs meetings with internal teams, and external stakeholders.
• Facilitates the communication plan for internal and external stakeholders. Disseminates information as needed.
• General office duties e.g., filing, mailings, courier services, ensuring stocked and maintained inventory /supplies/equipment/software.
• Designs all source documents (templates, tracking files, forms, guidance documents) for the collection, and management of information/data.
• Organizes, sets up, and maintains equipment

Research Specific Tasks (40% of work time)

• Coordinates participants and helps with screening and recruitment.
• Plans, organizes, directs, controls, and evaluates the activities and operations of scientific research or quality control.
• Ongoing coordination of study activities; day to day project management of timelines, resources, deliverables, and study tasks.
• Quantitative and qualitative data collection, including designing interview guides, surveys, selecting/screening test sample, cleaning/coding data, and conducting interviews.
• Liaises with multiple internal and external stakeholders at local and international levels, navigates stakeholder relationships, and responds proactively to anticipated challenges.
• Contributes to the presentation of research related information: reports, proposals, publications, presentations, manuscripts, abstracts, newsletters, posters etc.
• Manuscript writing/revising; data analysis, including screening abstracts, and full text of research articles, and performs reference scanning for scoping, and systematic reviews.
• Helps develop processes, tools (workflow, Gantt charts), and resources to support team members, and projects.
• Helps prepare specifications, presentations, and report preparations in consultation and negotiation with multiple stakeholders.
• Troubleshoots/solves logistical and technical obstacles.
• Supports proposals (RFP), and grant application process and protocols.
• Prepares grant letters of support.

Day to day project and staff guidance tasks (10% of work time)

• May train, coordinate, and/or delegate tasks (including overseeing quality control of submitted assignments) to Research Assistants, casual staff, and internal/external collaborators.
• May recruit and onboard personnel (e.g., peer navigators, students) and oversee development and maintenance of staff competence in required areas.
• May conduct some conflict resolution.
• May develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for the scientific and technical work performed in the department.

Performs cross functional and other duties as assigned and/or requested.

• All staff are expected to carry out their assigned duties and responsibilities in a manner which prioritizes patient and employee safety, and confidentiality. Key accountabilities in this regard include:
• Strict compliance with patient/employee confidentiality practices and policies.
• Strict compliance with patient/employee safety practices and standards.
• Appropriate identification, reporting and response to patient/employee confidentiality breaches in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Appropriate identification, reporting and response to patient/employee safety risks and incidents/events in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate Degree and 2 years of relevant experience, OR demonstrable equivalent combination of specialized education and experience.
• Experience running clinical trials is an asset.
• Health Canada Division 5 is preferred (Completed within first 2 weeks of hire)
• TCPS CORE 2 is an asset (Completed within first 2 weeks of hire)
• Good clinical practice certificate is an asset (Completed within first 2 weeks of hire)
• RCR (Responsible conduct of Research) is an asset
• Knowledge of Healthcare research.
• Experience with plain language writing is an asset.
• Experience working with a diversity of stakeholders is an asset.
• Knowledge of applied research.
• Quantitative research experience.
• Qualitative research experience.
• Experience with technical writing.
• Knowledge of survey software (Survey Monkey, Qualtrics, REDCap) is an asset.

Qualitative analysis software (e.g.NVIVO) is an asset.

Unity Health Toronto is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive organization. We strive to provide a recruitment process that is barrier-free and in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code. We understand that you may require an accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process. When you are contacted, please inform the Talent Acquisition Specialist and we will work with you to meet your accommodation needs. We want to emphasize that all accommodation requests are handled with the utmost confidentiality, respecting your privacy and dignity.

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