Job Opportunity - YDI Research Project Coordinator

Role Summary

In the context of worsening youth health trends in mental health, injury, substance use and obesity, investigators and public health practitioners at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)-UBC, and the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), SFU, have identified an urgent need to develop an instrument to measure population-level longitudinal youth well-being (YWB) and resilience indicators. 

This position will provide research and administrative managerial support for a grant-funded study,

“Predicting successful trajectories from childhood to young adulthood.” The study is a collaborative project

by BCCDC, UBC-HELP, and SFU FHS to develop an instrument to measure positive youth development and

well-being. The project coordinator will be responsible coordinating tasks related to the development and

validation of a survey —the Youth Development Instrument (YDI)—for assessing adolescent development,

youth experiences, and social context factors at a population level. Tasks will include coordinating a

literature review of constructs constituting youth well-being to inform survey development; establishing

youth and community advisory boards; seeking input on the YDI from advisory committees, the Project

Team, and other stakeholders; validating the YDI in selected schools; building and maintaining relationships

and liaising with education and healthcare professionals and community contacts to coordinate and train

users; planning and developing the validation research for the YDI to contribute to scholarly publications;

and assisting with grant-writing for long-term project funding.

For more information, please see:  https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/employment-opportunities/research.html