Research Coordinator, Institute - Temporary

Compensation Pay Range: $38.57-$47.34

For more than two decades, the Knowledge Institute on Child and Youth Mental Health and Addictions (the Knowledge Institute) has been bringing people and knowledge together to strengthen care for infants, children, young people, and families. As a trusted partner and advisor to several of Ontario’s ministries, we collaborate across sectors to drive high-quality mental health, substance use health and addictions care.

We mobilize evidence, strengthen knowledge and skills, and accelerate system change to improve services for mental health, substance use health, and addictions across Ontario. The Research Coordinator plans, coordinates, implements, and evaluates key Knowledge Institute projects and initiatives. They work with key informants, interest holders, and provincial partners and draw on the latest research evidence to develop quality standards, resources, products, strategies and processes that will inform practice and policy across Ontario’s community-based child and youth mental health, substance use health and addictions sector.

The incumbent will have demonstrated experience in applied research coordination, project management, and evaluation; excellent communication skills (both verbal and written); excellent presentation and networking skills; and a demonstrated ability to develop strong partnerships with researchers, agency leaders, service providers, young people and family members to ensure the successful execution of community-driven projects and initiatives.

• Coordinates all aspects of Knowledge Institute-led research, knowledge mobilization, standardization, evaluation, and/or implementation projects.
• Duties include initial project planning, managing project logistics, building the appropriate team, consulting and engaging with partners, building strategic engagement plans, implementing the project plan, planning and overseeing research/evaluation activities (e.g., data collection, analysis, report writing and project evaluation).
• Project examples include quality standards, evidence briefs, surveys, infographics, toolkits, quality indicators, evaluation projects; as well as the creation of products, presentations, and resources to meet partners’ knowledge needs.
• Collaborates with research/knowledge mobilization/standardization/evaluation/implementation project team members to develop/refine project goals, methods, and research/evaluation questions; create tools for data collection and storage; oversee data collection and cleaning; and analyze results and produce project reports and presentations.
• Ensures ongoing communication and engagement with project partners and staff, including youth and family advisory councils, with guidance and support from a senior, PhD trained staff/leadership team member, conducts literature reviews and environmental scans on complex child and youth mental health, substance use health and addictions topics.
• Produces knowledge products to meet information needs of Ontario’s child and youth mental health, substance use health and addictions sector (e.g., quality standards, evidence briefs, program scans, landscape analyses, infographics, and other knowledge and research-related reports).
• Coordinates meetings that bring together advisory councils, steering committees, and/or working groups including (but not limited to) young people and family members, priority partners, researchers and content experts, agency leaders, service providers, and other project partners to co‑design, collaborate, or provide advice and guidance on projects.
• Liaises and collaborates with provincial partners, content area experts, young people and families to develop and refine the Knowledge Institute’s quality standards, tools, resources and products associated with identified projects.
• Plans, designs, and facilitates project‑specific engagements with youth and family advisories, groups and tables.
• Plans and facilitates meetings with external partners including presentations and large and small group facilitation.
• Designs and carries out project‑specific engagement and knowledge mobilization strategies, and works…