Senior Associate Strategist (Healthcare Social Scientist)

Throughline Strategy•Toronto, ON

32d•Hybrid

About The Position

Throughline Strategy is seeking experienced health researchers who are eager to grow in their consulting expertise to support our behavioural and implementation science team. In this role, you will be staffed onto high-impact quality improvement, research and strategy projects with a cross-functional and highly collaborative team. The role involves designing and executing quality improvement projects for scaling across healthcare systems in the United States, designing social science-informed project and grant proposals, recommendations, meetings and workshops leveraging an in-depth understanding of healthcare research frameworks and methods. It also includes executing qualitative and/or mixed methods primary research, co-creation and consulting projects, project managing the day-to-day execution of primary research and consulting projects, developing summaries and strategic communications to socialize findings from primary research and communicate complex concepts to a non-academic, business audience, facilitating meetings and workshops, contributing to the development of case studies and new practice tools and processes informed by social science, and helping improve workplace culture and space. Other duties as required.

Requirements

Successful completion of a PhD degree in social science (for example: Implementation Science, Psychology, Sociology, Behavioural Science etc.)
Strong critical thinking, qualitative analysis, writing, and presentation skills
Demonstrated experience conducting primary research and/or quality improvement with health care providers, patients, and caregivers in a range of settings and geographies
Demonstrated experience applying theory in a practical and applied setting and ‘right-sizing’ concepts to meet the unique needs of a particular audience
Demonstrated experience explaining complex theoretical concepts to a lay audience in an approachable manner
Demonstrated experience working on short-turnaround projects and successfully meeting deadlines
Demonstrated experience managing competing priorities/multiple projects and commitments simultaneously
Demonstrated experience moderating substantial volume of interviews and/or conducting several months or more of ethnographic fieldwork
Demonstrated experience facilitating large meetings
Demonstrated experience identifying and developing strong insights
Passion for working in a health-related field
Excited to work in a fast-paced environment where projects move with urgency
Fluent written and spoken English.
Experience working in an office environment / corporate setting
Technical literacy. Experience in using all G-Suite and MS-Office products and working in a cloud-based virtual environment with PowerPoint and digital collaboration tools (e.g. Zoom, Teams, Mural, Slack, Box etc.).
Experience using at least one qualitative coding software such as MaxQda, NVivo, Atlas.ti, or Dedoose
Applicants must be legally able to work in Canada.

Nice To Haves

Second and third language skills are a plus!

Responsibilities

Designing and executing high impact quality improvement projects for scaling across healthcare systems in the United States
Designing social science-informed project and grant proposals, recommendations, meetings and workshops leveraging an in-depth understanding of healthcare research frameworks and methods
Executing qualitative and/or mixed methods primary research, co-creation and consulting projects (developing materials for IRB submission, developing interview guides, qualitative coding, analysis and synthesis, developing synthesis of meeting and workshop outputs etc.)
Project managing the day-to-day execution of primary research and consulting projects (e.g., developing screeners, managing recruiting, document management, building and managing timelines, identifying risks, solving project-related challenges as needed etc.)
Developing summaries and strategic communications to socialize findings from primary research and communicate complex concepts to a non-academic, business audience
Facilitating meetings and workshops
Contributing to the development of case studies and new practice tools and processes informed by social science
Helping improve workplace culture and space
Other duties as required