Projects Coordinator, Research

University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC

2d • CA$5,365 - CA$7,710 • Onsite

About The Position

The Projects Coordinator, Research (PC) provides technical expertise and project management for a lab that specializes in community-centred, health services research and knowledge translation to advance equity, quality, and respect in perinatal services. The PC will be responsible for the coordination of research and knowledge implementation projects in the area of reproductive health and justice. The Projects Coordinator will support the PI and Research Associate by implementing best practices for organization and management of research project activities, data management, data analysis, and data integrity at the Birth Place Lab (BPL). The PC will support the Equity Strategist for activities by implementing best practices for equity inclusive excellence in BPL research and KT activities, including community engagement, participatory action research, and knowledge translation. The PC interacts and liaises with academic and community-based researchers, policy makers, administrators, community partners, external research partners, Division of Midwifery faculty and staff, UBC units (such as Research Services and Ethics), Women's Health Research Institute, or other key stakeholders globally.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum of two years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own.
• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice To Haves

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in a relevant discipline: psychology, gender, race, and sexual studies, public health, health services, midwifery, medicine, community planning, sociology, etc.
• Three or more years of experience supporting applied health research in an academic environment, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of research on respectful care, anti-oppression, and equity in maternity health services and perinatal research.
• Familiarity with and experience with implementation of anti-racist and anti-oppression methods for community engagement, research and knowledge translation.
• Knowledge of OCAP principles for respectful and decolonized research methods.
• Ability to successfully foster and maintain relationships with diverse external stakeholders.
• Experience with project management systems, tools and methods eg Microsoft Planner.
• Demonstrated skills in research project and data management.
• Demonstrated competency in academic or technical writing and communication.
• Ability to prioritize and work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively independently and in a team environment.
• Familiarity and competency with data collection and analysis software eg. Qualtrics, RedCap, Nvivo, SPSS, R, Stata.
• Ability to effectively use Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, at an intermediate level.
• Knowledge of administrative and regulatory regulations and processes for research conducted in a university setting, including ethical requirements.
• Ability to analyze problems, identify key information and issues, and effectively resolve.
• Ability to deal with a diversity of people in a calm, courteous, and effective manner.
• Ability to communicate with diplomacy, tact, and unconditional positive regard both verbally and in writing.
• Lived experience of identity, circumstance, and/or background that are unrepresented in the university.

Responsibilities

• Implementing strategies and initiatives to expand BPL capacity for equity informed, participatory action research based on the priorities of the Principal Investigator and the research program.
• Overseeing research project plans and activities.
• Overseeing and/or enacting communications with community partners, trainees, and research partners.
• Organizing meetings related to the main project and sub-projects.
• Enacting data management and data sharing protocols.
• Participating in the development of grants, project reports, manuscripts and presentations.
• Contributing to community-facing data display.
• Supporting student research assistants and scholars.
• Tracking timelines and deliverables, and other research administration activities.
• Liaising with community-based research partners to plan, implement, and coordinate study protocols to meet deliverables.
• Managing communications, timelines, meetings, and project work plans in collaboration with the BPL team, community partners, and in accordance with principles of community based participatory research.
• Overseeing the implementation of research projects to ensure that ethical requirements, UBC ORS, OCAP and equity principles, and requirements of external research sites are met.
• Collaborating with other BPL staff to oversee ongoing project management, planning, facilitation and evaluation of project activities.
• Supporting PI and KT Specialists with effective and efficient coordination of KT events and implementation activities.
• Ensuring compliance with external funding grants and the policies and agreements with the University of British Columbia.
• Maintaining research project records and generating mid-term and end-of-term reports for funders.
• Creating and coordinating project plans with external research and implementation partners.
• Managing and updating contacts and project status for research collaborators, trainees, and early career scholars, including teams that use the measures and outputs of the lab.
• Responding to inquiries and requests from Community Partners, media, and the general public about the research, tools, knowledge translation events, and implementation activities.
• Working in partnership and consultation with community Steering Councils, PI, and Co-investigators, to facilitate community engagement.
• Coordinating documentation and communication related to exploratory meetings with external research partner organizations and ongoing community Steering Council meetings.
• Supporting Equity Strategist to engage key community partners and NGOs that serve racialized, marginalized, underrepresented, and Indigenous childbearing populations.
• Building and maintaining relationships with Regional Recruitment Coordinators, and Community Leads at each data collection and/or implementation location.
• Coordinating training events that support engagement of community members in research (ethics, data management, analysis, interpretation, knowledge translation development).
• Liaising with, and supporting community partners and clinician leaders through the data collection, interpretation and knowledge translation phases for active projects.
• Being accountable for the integrity of the data including data organization, data cleaning, fraud detection protocols, security of the data, and ethical procedures.
• Facilitating sharing of datasets with external stakeholders; helping to develop data sharing agreements and communicating with stakeholders about this process.
• Drafting ethics applications and provisos.
• Helping to develop surveys, proofs, and uploading them on Qualtrics.
• Generating data reports and data display tools.
• Supporting grant application submissions, to major funding agencies (e.g., CIHR) and smaller foundations (e.g., Vancouver Foundation).
• Supporting PI, Co-PI and Research Associate, and graduate trainees in preparing manuscripts, articles, abstracts, posters and presentations for academic journals and conferences.
• Maintaining research study records, including documents and communications in accordance with UBC and funding agencies.
• Performing other research support related duties as required.
• Providing general support and direction to Regional Recruitment Partners, Community Steering Council members, and research assistants from the community and at UBC, including undergraduate and graduate trainees.
• Providing guidance to community leads and BPL staff as needed to ensure that the goals of all projects and initiatives are met in a timely, inclusive, respectful, and efficient manner.

Benefits

• Employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level