Research Officer

Date Posted: 05/27/2025
Req ID: 43113
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Office of the Dean
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00057757

Description:

About us:

Home to over 40 departments and institutes, the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine lies at the heart of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network and is a global leader in ground-breaking research and education, spanning clinical medicine, basic science and the rehabilitation sciences sectors.

Your opportunity:

The Toronto Dementia Research Alliance (TDRA) is a collaborative partnership of leading academic and healthcare institutions working to advance research that prevents, treats and improves care for individuals at risk for, or living with, dementia. By promoting collaboration among basic and clinical researchers, learners, clinicians and community partners, TDRA accelerates the development and translation of impactful dementia research.

As a Research Officer, you will collaborate with the Executive Director and other members of leadership to support the planning, execution and evaluation of research projects. Your success in this role will depend on your strong command of qualitative and quantitative research methods, along with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with academic, clinical and community stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Implementing and executing qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Coordinating tasks for projects and other strategic initiatives with stakeholders, including informing on project progress and coordinating meeting schedules
• Supporting research initiatives by conducting systematic literature reviews, analyzing results, preparing draft statistical reports for research papers
• Drafting and submitting documented procedures to the Research Ethics Board for approval
• Fostering and maintaining networks to build capacity and collaboration

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Health Sciences, Public Health or a related discipline or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
• Minimum three (3) years of relevant work experience conducting research, analyzing, interpreting and reporting on results, preferably in dementia, aging, or neurodegenerative disease research
• Demonstrated experience coordinating research projects, implementing qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and coordinating the recruitment of study participants
• Experience coordinating research award adjudication processes and research grants, including a demonstrated understanding of research granting life cycle and knowledge of research ethics board processes
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection, interpretation and analysis
• Experience drafting summaries of research results, contributing to abstracts, editing grant applications and conducting literature reviews
• Experience planning and coordinating logistics for events and preparing surveys and questionnaires
• Experience contributing to knowledge translation tools and drafting related communications
• Advanced proficiency with M365, survey tools and data analysis software (e.g., NVivo, SPSS, R)
• Excellent communications skills (written and verbal), with ability to work independently but also effectively as part of a multi-professional project team
• Ability to exercise initiative, tact, discretion, and to work under pressure to meet deadlines and manage multiple processes
• Exercises good judgment, attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Communicator
• Goal oriented
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Team player

We are currently recruiting for three (3) positions.

Closing Date: 06/04/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 11 -- $75,223. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $96,196. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Research Administration & Teaching
Recruiter: Dinuka Perera

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.