Research Coordinator

Job Category

Job Title

Department

Posting End Date

Note:Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

Starting wage between $ - $

Job Description – Research Coordinator

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Description Summary

The Research Coordinator’s primary responsibility is to enable a Principal Investigator (PI) in the Centre for Health Behaviour Change to work more efficiently and energetically on research endeavors, by creatively and reliably managing the administration of their research and related activities.

This position provides essential liaison between the PI, research staff and trainees, other research labs within the Centre for Health Behaviour Change and the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, the School of Health and Exercise Sciences, the Office of Research Services (ORS), the Research Finance team, not-for-profit organizations/research partners, and the research community, both within and outside of UBC.

The role requires discrete handling of confidential situations, as well as mature, independent decision making, to prioritize tasks and problems for the members of the research group, to keep research projects on-track and on-time, and to help maximize research productivity. Towards this goal, the incumbent develops lab and project policies, procedures and systems, prepares research, ethics, funding application, and financial reports and documents, develops and disseminates knowledge-translation products, collects, manages, and analyzes research data, trains and supervises personnel, and keeps the PI apprised of issues, activities and opportunities.

Organizational Status

The School of Health and Exercise Sciences is consistently ranked as one of the top schools internationally. It is one of the largest Schools of this type in Canada with over 20 full-time academic staff members who are widely published internationally. The School has an established reputation for research and teaching excellence and is extremely well-positioned for significant growth and impact in local, national and global communities through collaborative educational, research, training, and outreach activities.

The Research Coordinator may be asked to liaise with community partner organizations, certification bodies, employers, donors and other scientific and health professionals from national and international committees and organizations.

The Research Coordinator will also work with staff in Research Finance, Financial Services, Supply Management, Office of Research Services, Centre for Scholarly Communication, and the University-Industry Liaison Office

Work Performed