Senior Advisor, Research and Program

Job Details

• Job Type: Employee
• Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments): 24
• Job Family:
  Research and Program Support
• # of Open Positions: 1 Faculty/Service
• Department:
  Research Office
• Campus:
  Ottawa, ON
• Union Affiliation: SSUO
• Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/09/03
• Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/09/14
• Hours per week: 35
• Salary Grade: SSUO Grade 11
• Salary Range: $95,594.00 - $

Welcome to the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, the first and largest bilingual medical faculty in Canada. Our learners have access to state-of-the-art facilities and specialized institutions as they learn alongside world-class physicians and scientists. Consistently ranked among the top 10 medical schools in Canada, our faculty is among the top faculties of medicine in the world for research impact in biomedical and health sciences.

Report to the Director, Research Office, Provides advice and support to researchers in developing their research projects to improve the success rate for external funding requests and to strengthen the faculty’s research activities. Helps faculty research activities gain greater recognition from the University community, the media and the public.

• Advisory Services and Research Support: Provides researchers with expert advice and support in developing their research projects, including on how to set budgets, plan needed human, physical and material resources, and justify requests so that the various funding agencies receive high-quality funding requests that meet their listed criteria and researchers improve their chances of securing funding. Directs researchers to other possible funding sources if funding requests are rejected.
  
  Provides expertise and consultation on interinstitutional research initiatives and works with other institutions to submit funding requests for these initiatives so that they comply with granting agencies’ requirements.
• Researching Opportunities and Networking: Works with Research Management Services to identify and keep track of funding opportunities, and to ensure that faculty researchers are aware of the opportunities most relevant to them. Liaises with research advisors from other faculties in regular meetings in order to promote the faculty’s research activities and possibilities for interfaculty and interdisciplinary research opportunities.
• Operations: Analyzes and interprets granting agencies’ requirements and guidelines and solves complex administrative problems in a timely manner. Helps to develop and implement internal regulations, project management procedures and administrative processes in order to improve their relevance and efficiency.
• Liaison and Guidance: Liaises between researchers and granting agencies to ensure that all parties possess the information they need to optimize their chances of success. Organizes and leads workshops and information sessions for researchers on the preparation of high-quality funding requests, research management good practices, and funding opportunities and rules in order to provide clarity and streamline the process.
• Research Promotion: Works with internal and external actors to help promote faculty research so that researcher’s discoveries, research initiatives, inventions and other exceptional accomplishments garner visibility and publicity with the media and general public. Works with researchers and other actors to help prepare applications for awards from the University and external organizations.
• Reports: Conducts research and surveys, and compiles data, statistics and other information related to research trends, faculty research activities, and research funding. Uses this information to provide…