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Knowledge Mobilization Specialist - Social Sciences and Humanities Consortium (SSH-C)  |  Date posted: May 6, 2024

We are seeking a Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Specialist who will support the Consortium in identifying and implementing best practices for mobilizing research findings through a broad range of channels. The Specialist supports the development and implementation of Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) plans and activities for the SSH-C, develops and coordinates KMb skills training programs, and provides leadership for our annual KMb priorities.

The Specialist will create tools and assist SSH-C members, collaborators and partners with engaging scientific, industry, government, public health, and public audiences. This engagement will involve assessing knowledge mobilization needs related to our mandate and how our members, collaborators and partners wish to work with the SSH-C. The Specialist will then develop evidence-based outputs that advance public acceptability and accessibility of vaccines and immune-based innovations.

The Specialist is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with SSH-C members, collaborators, and partners, along with research facilitators, research administrators, communicators, government, professional bodies, industry etc., with the aim of increasing public understanding of vaccines and immune-based innovations in Canada.

This is a 0.8 - 1.0 FTE contract role (negotiable). 

Application Process

Please send a cover letter and your curriculum vitae to sshc-info@sfu.ca. Please use the subject line: “Application for SSH-C Knowledge Mobilization Specialist.”

Review of applications will begin on May 20, 2024 until an appointment is made.

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The SSH-C has been funded to support Canada’s Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy, to strengthen Canada’s readiness for future pandemics or other health emergencies. The SSH Consortium, as a key component of the CIEBH, will bring together leading social scientists from across Canada and globally to better understand and support confidence in, and equitable access to, vaccines and other immune-based innovations.

Project Manager - Social Sciences and Humanities Consortium (SSH-C)  |  Date posted: May 6, 2024

The Program Manager (PM) provides leadership to the operations, knowledge mobilization, and engagement activities for the 4-year SSH Consortium, focused on staffing, program management, office and site management activities and preparation of key reports. Under the leadership of the SSH Consortium’s Co-Directors, the Program Manager will be responsible for financial management and reporting of a large-scale multi-year budget, in adherence with funding and ethics requirements. The PM assists the project leads in the administration of subcontracts with Consortium members, collaborators and partners, guidance and coordination of ethics approvals, and assesses variances from the project plans, budgets, and schedules. The PM manages the project budget, oversees the establishment and functioning of the research centre facilities, develops performance measurement indicators, and leads reporting to the CIEBH and funder. The PM is responsible for developing and implementing strategy and for providing operational leadership related to staffing, project management and office management activities.

This is a 0.8 - 1.0 FTE contract role (negotiable). 

Application Process

Please send a cover letter and your curriculum vitae to sshc-info@sfu.ca. Please use the subject line: “Application for SSH-C Project Manager.”

Review of applications will begin on May 20, 2024 until an appointment is made.

Read the full job description

The SSH-C has been funded to support Canada’s Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy, to strengthen Canada’s readiness for future pandemics or other health emergencies. The SSH Consortium, as a key component of the CIEBH, will bring together leading social scientists from across Canada and globally to better understand and support confidence in, and equitable access to, vaccines and other immune-based innovations.

Office Manager - Social Sciences and Humanities Consortium (SSH-C)  |  Date posted: May 6, 2024

The Office Manager is responsible for day-to-day office administration, including the following core roles/activities: management of general office operations, supervision of clerical staff, preparation of financial reports, handling of correspondence, development and maintenance of record keeping systems, and maintenance of facilities and technology. The position provides administrative and clerical support to the Co-Directors and Project Manager, and as such confidentiality in all matters is essential.

This is full-time contract role (35 hours per week). 

Application Process

Please send a cover letter and your curriculum vitae to sshc-info@sfu.ca. Please use the subject line: “Application for SSH-C Office Manager.”

Review of applications will begin on May 20, 2024 until an appointment is made.

Read the full job description

The SSH-C has been funded to support Canada’s Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy, to strengthen Canada’s readiness for future pandemics or other health emergencies. The SSH Consortium, as a key component of the CIEBH, will bring together leading social scientists from across Canada and globally to better understand and support confidence in, and equitable access to, vaccines and other immune-based innovations.

Research Coordinator - Vancouver Drug Users Study (V-DUS)  |  Date posted: April 8, 2024

We are seeking a Research Coordinator to provide research administration support to the Vancouver Drug Users Study (V-DUS). V-DUS, a multi-institutional NIH-funded study based at SFU, is a project that consists of two cohort studies: VIDUS (Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study) and ARYS (At-Risk Youth Study). Together, these two cohort studies investigate the impacts of rapidly evolving substance use patterns on HIV prevention and HIV-associated co-morbidities.

The Research Coordinator will work with the study’s Principal Investigators, Professors Hayashi and DeBeck, as well as a team of frontline study staff based at the BCCSU (including interviewers, nurses, outreach workers), and the study’s Research Project Manager (RPM) to provide administrative support to V-DUS. This includes supporting with:

• Project compliance, ethics applications, amendments and renewals, and grant applications for related studies or renewals;
• Project finances;
• Research-related meetings, events, or other knowledge translation activities;
• The development of project reporting documents; and
• Other research administration activities as they emerge

This is a temporary, part-time, 0.3 FTE (12 hours per week) role that will run until April 30, 2025.

Application deadline: April 30, 2024

Please email your cover letter and resume to Abdul Zahir, Research Project Manager, at azahir@sfu.ca. Questions are welcome to this email, too.

Statistician - Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes  |  Date posted: Feb 29, 2024

Under the supervision of Dr. Bohdan Nosyk, the Statistician will be embedded in the Health Economic Research Unit (HERU) at the Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes and will provide expertise in the design and analysis of health research studies. Major responsibilities include: leading and contributing to statistical analysis of health administrative data, literature reviews, manuscripts, research dissemination, and other research-related activities; providing statistical advice to faculty, staff, and students; developing statistical analysis strategies; performing data analysis and evaluation, and interpreting and summarizing analyses and results for research reports and publications.

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The job will be open until filled. Interested candidates should email their resume and cover letter to hr@advancinghealth.ubc.ca; applications that don’t include both will not be reviewed. We welcome applications from candidates legally entitled to work in Canada.

Research Associate Lead - The iHeLTI Project |  Date posted: August 22, 2023

The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC)-led and SFU Faculty of Health Sciences-partnered Indigenous Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (I-HeLTI) project is seeking a Research Associate Lead to provide scientific leadership to the project on a full-time basis. This position will liaise between NTC (NTC team members, Elders, communities, service providers) and academic partners (extended academic team) to interpret and understand the research interests and priorities of the individuals and groups working within the I-HeLTI Project. The candidate will contribute expertise to strategic meetings with research leadership regarding all aspects of the study, including study design, implementation analysis and knowledge sharing and mobilization.

The candidate will be preferably Indigenous, hold a PhD relevant to public health with a preference given to expertise in Indigenous peoples’ health, have a good understanding of the research life cycle and Indigenous, qualitative, quantitative, and biological research methods, and have experience in research project management and Indigenous community-based research.

Apply by sending a cover letter, resume and three references to the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council at: apply@nuuchahnulth.org.