Manager, Centre of Excellence in Hypertension and Vascular Health

Do you want to work for a world-renowned research institute that pushes the boundaries of biomedical science and health research? Right here in Montreal! At the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), you can be part of an organization focused on scientific discovery and innovation in patient-centered medicine. Join us today and make a difference!

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is a world-renowned biomedical and hospital research centre.

Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Institute is the research arm of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University.

The RI-MUHC is supported in part by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS).

The Centre of Excellence in Hypertension and Vascular Health, at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre brings together clinical and translational research, innovation, and training to advance the prevention, diagnosis, and management of hypertension and vascular disease.

The Centre supports an integrated research platform spanning clinical, translational, and epidemiological. Its activities include investigator-initiated studies, national and multinational pre-clinical and clinical research, clinical trials, vascular phenotyping, biobanking, biomarker discovery, multi-omics, precision medicine, women's cardiovascular health, and hypertension across the life course.

Under the direction of the Centre Director, the Manager will provide scientific, operational, and strategic leadership for the Centre's research activities and support its continued development as a multidisciplinary platform for hypertension and vascular research.

The Manager will oversee a portfolio of concurrent research programs spanning the full research continuum, from project conception and funding through regulatory approval, implementation, data collection, analysis, dissemination, and knowledge translation.

The Manager will work closely with the Centre Director, investigators, physicians, research personnel, trainees, institutional platforms, patient partners, funding agencies, and national and international collaborators. The position will also play a central role in developing new research initiatives, securing funding, expanding collaborations, supporting clinical trial readiness, and aligning the Centre's activities with institutional and scientific priorities.

• Coordinate the Centre's portfolio of clinical, translational, epidemiological, and laboratory research programs, including national and multinational studies.
• Work closely with the Centre Director to establish research priorities, operational objectives, timelines, milestones, and longer-term strategic goals.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary research teams involving clinicians, scientists, research coordinators, trainees, laboratory personnel, data specialists, institutional platforms, and external collaborators.
• Monitor project milestones, deliverables, recruitment, budgets, regulatory requirements, analyses, publications, and reporting obligations.
• Identify operational and scientific risks and develop mitigation and contingency strategies.
• Develop and implement processes that improve research efficiency, standardization, quality, and collaboration across the Centre.

• Lead and support the development of competitive grant applications to provincial, national, international, foundation, and institutional funding programs.
• Work closely with the Centre Director and investigators to develop new research concepts and funding strategies aligned with the Centre's priorities.
• Manage project budgets and ensure alignment among scientific objectives, personnel, infrastructure, experimental activities, and available resources.

• Contribute scientific and methodological expertise to the design of clinical, translational and epidemiological research projects.
• Facilitate the integration of advanced cardiovascular phenotyping, blood pressure assessment, vascular imaging, biospecimens, biomarkers, biobanking, and multi-omics methodologies.
• Work with clinical, laboratory, imaging, biostatistical, bioinformatics, and institutional research platforms to determine feasibility, workflows, sample requirements, and appropriate methodologies.
• Support the development and…