Project Manager, Clinical Research

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).

Department / Research Program:
Psychiatry

The Centre for Precision Psychiatry – Quebec (CPPQ) is seeking a project manager for our large-scale longitudinal mental health research project across three clinical research sites, including recruitment, data collection, budget, timelines, and project milestones. We are collecting clinical and biological data from patients undergoing psychiatric treatment to make them available through open science.

• Site operations:
  Oversee day-to-day research operations across sites, including workflows, staffing, coordination of research teams, problem-solving, and SOP development and maintenance.
• Strategic planning:
  Develop project objectives, timelines, and operational strategies, coordinate strategic planning and monitor progress toward project milestones.
• Budget and financial management:
  Develop and monitor multi-site budgets, track expenditures and projections, and identify opportunities to optimize resources and reduce costs.
• Team leadership:
  Supervise and support research staff and volunteers, including workload planning, weekly supervision, evaluations, contracts, professional development, training, and leave management.
• Clinical supervision and quality assurance:
  Supervise and train clinical research staff and lead scoring reviews to support inter-rater reliability, consistency, and ongoing clinical training.
• Data user management and data sharing:
  Manage prospective data users from application through data sharing and follow-up, including communications, documentation, DTAs, and MTAs.
• Ethics and regulatory management:
  Maintain project ethics approvals, coordinate ethics submissions, and address ethical, privacy, confidentiality, and data-access requirements.
• Data quality and research operations:
  Identify and resolve data-quality issues, develop standardized procedures, and quality-control processes.
• Scientific research:
  Contribute to study design, psychometric analyses, data quality assessment, manuscripts, scientific presentations, and research reports, supervise undergraduate research projects.
• Reporting and dissemination:
  Prepare annual reports, presentations, and project documentation for institutional and funding partners.
• Partnerships, representation, and communications:
  Represent the project with research partners, institutional and funding organizations, external users, media, and other stakeholders, build and maintain collaborative relationships and oversee project communications.

Education:

Master's Degree

Field of Study:
Psychology/Psychiatry/Nursing/Administration

Work Experience:

Experience in project and team management, clinical experience is an important asset

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