Scientific Associate - Shkaabe Makwa

CAMH • Toronto, ON

8h • CA$91,758 - CA$114,698 • Onsite

About The Position

Shkaabe Makwa at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is the first hospital-based Centre in Canada designed to improve the health and wellbeing of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis across Ontario by advancing wholistic models of mental health and wellness care that are rooted in traditional healing practices. We deliver care, co-design research, and mobilize knowledge and tools to transform health systems. We action community-identified solutions to foster health justice. Shkaabe Makwa is currently seeking a full-time, regular Scientific Associate to join our team. The candidate will report to the Scientific Director of Shkaabe Makwa. This position will support a wide range of interdisciplinary and culturally safe research initiatives, spanning community-based, population health, health justice and clinical research. The candidate will support research that centers First Nations, Inuit and Métis lived and living experiences, embeds Indigenous and arts-based methodologies, aligns with principles of Indigenous data sovereignty and research governance, decolonizing research methodology and ethics, and community engagement that is guided by Indigenous expertise, including Elders and Knowledge Keepers. The successful candidate will play a central role in supporting research methodology design, project implementation and coordination, data collection, relational partner engagement, and knowledge mobilization activities across the Centre. This position is located at CAMH, 60 White Squirrel Way, Toronto ON. Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca. To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here.

Responsibilities

• Support a wide range of interdisciplinary and culturally safe research initiatives, spanning community-based, population health, health justice and clinical research.
• Support research that centers First Nations, Inuit and Métis lived and living experiences, embeds Indigenous and arts-based methodologies, aligns with principles of Indigenous data sovereignty and research governance, decolonizing research methodology and ethics, and community engagement that is guided by Indigenous expertise, including Elders and Knowledge Keepers.
• Play a central role in supporting research methodology design, project implementation and coordination, data collection, relational partner engagement, and knowledge mobilization activities across the Centre.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed