Date Posted: 11/24/2023
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Closing Date: 12/1/2023
Reference No.: 2023-6701
Sunnybrook Research Institute is seeking a highly-motivated Research Assistant to be part of a research team conducting health services and population health research focused on diabetes care and prevention. The successful candidate will be supporting multiple research and community-engagement projects in this role. Research activities include observational studies, clinical trials, community-based participatory research and implementation science. The successful candidate will join a team that includes researchers, healthcare providers, community agencies and people with lived experience. This is a work from home position, except as noted below.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate communication between the team members and internal and external stakeholders.
- Foster stakeholder engagement and maintaining relationships with project partners.
- Organize team meetings and engage with supervisors regularly to provide project status updates.
- Support research project activities (i.e., project management, prepare and submit REB applications, recruit study participants and obtain required documentations including informed consent).
- Collect, transcribe, organize, quality control and enter study-related data.
- Conduct general coding/analysis of qualitative data.
- Analyze data and prepare draft statistical reports and summaries.
- Perform literature searches on requested topics.
- Support the preparation of presentations, manuscripts and grant applications.
- Occasional in-person work at Sunnybrook or at community partner sites in Toronto and Peel.
Qualifications and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in a health-related discipline, Master’s degree is an asset.
- At least 2 years’ experience in quantitative and/or qualitative research.
- TCPS CORE 2 certification and GCP certification (required within 4 weeks of hiring).
- Strong computer skills, particularly with database, spreadsheet and word processing.
- Organizational and time management skills, including multi-tasking and flexibility to adapt to changing workload.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Proven ability to learn new skills.
- Awareness and sensitivity to diverse communities and priority populations.
Salary will be commensurate with experience. Please send a cover letter and CV in one PDF document to zarah.malm@sri.utoronto.ca by December 22, 2023.
