Partnerships and Innovation Specialist

Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga

Department: UTM:
Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation

Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

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U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery.

We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the

The Partnerships & Innovation Specialist will support UTM’s research community to advance UTM’s and the University of Toronto’s strategic research administration activities. The position will work in collaboration with the VPRI, and under the direction of the Director, Partnerships & Innovation, Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation

You will be responsible for developing and enhancing the research enterprise king closely with academic leadership, you will identify opportunities for research funding, support the application development process of collaborative funding opportunities, including team and interdisciplinary projects, and develop strategies for partnerships. You will support the research endeavours at UTM by drafting and coordinating submissions for research funding, awards, and honours.

You will support faculty and UTM in ensuring all submissions and applications meet University and sponsor standards and requirements. You will support the UTM research environment by cultivating relationships and partnerships across the university and within the division.

• Advising faculty on funding application strategies
• Coordinating and guiding applicants through various phases of the research funding application process
• Providing detailed information to faculty and administrative staff on completing and submitting research applications
• Writing applications for research funding
• Keeping well-informed on research funding programs, application guidelines, policies/procedures and regulations
• Planning and overseeing activities that enhance and expand research funding activity and effectiveness
• Identifying, developing and executing strategies for research and development collaborations
• Developing and implementing plans to support areas of research relevant to partnership needs that are consistent with the University’s academic mission

• Master's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Minimum five years of relevant experience in an academic research environment required.
• Experience writing, editing and coordinating the creation of complex, multi-stakeholder grant applications required.
• Expert understanding of Provincial, Canadian and International partnership-based research funding programs and sponsors, such as ERA, ORF, CFI, SSHRC, etc. required.
• Experience organizing and facilitating workshops and training…