Job Opportunity - Part-time Research Coordinator for the Toronto Youth Climate Engagement Strategy, U of Toronto

Job Posting Part-time Research Coordinator for the Toronto Youth Climate Engagement Strategy Project
Please send your CV to laura.tozer@utoronto.ca by March 10, 2023.
The Toronto Youth Climate Engagement Strategy Project examines how the City of Toronto can enable, empower and equip youth-led leadership in climate action in Toronto to support the implementation of the City’s Climate Action Strategy – TransformTO. This is a community engaged research project delivered in partnership with the City of Toronto where we will co-design a consultation process with youth-led organizations, create a youth (ages 10-25) engagement for climate action strategy for the City of Toronto, and co-construct just transition narratives, visions, and processes for Toronto with the potential to catalyze systemic change.
The research project coordinator will be responsible for a variety of tasks and activities such as, and not limited to, partnership building, outreach, workflow planning, communications and implementation activities.
We are strongly committed to diversity and intentional inclusion and encourage applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ2S+ persons.
Details:
Face-to face meetings in Toronto will be required occasionally. To start, the hours are flexible and will be approximately 3-5 hrs. per week. It is expected that the research coordinator will have their own computer, internet, camera and phone. It is expected that the coordinator will undertake a set of training activities (webinars) offered by the University of Toronto (https://cris.utoronto.ca/). Starting hourly rate of pay will $27/hr. to $32/hr. depending on experience and education.
Term: March 2023 – December 2024
Key Skills:
• Experience and expertise in community-engaged research
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Capacity to design and facilitate team meetings in line with workflow. In short, move us forward, identify action items and keep us on track.
• Strong capacity to workplan for a team, track workflow and ensure follow through by all team members including partners and graduate student research assistants.
• Strong capacity to identify, develop and build collaborative relationships with different stakeholders
• Capacity to generate a collaborative and welcoming research and work environment within an anti-racist and anti-oppression framework
• Impeccable written and oral communication English language skills, with a focus on plain language writing
Optional, valuable skills:
• Support social media activities
• Experience in outreach communication (e.g. general public and other non-academic audiences)
Duties and Responsibilities:
Outreach and Partnership Development
• Identify build collaborative relationships with appropriate partners and stakeholders
• Maintain regular communication with project partners, advisors and stakeholders
• Design and facilitate meetings with partners and peer-researchers
Research Coordination and Management
• Coordinate research activities in collaboration with the project team
• Provide support to project post-doc, graduate students, and peer researchers, as needed
Administration: • Monitor the progress of project activities • Monitor project budget; maintain records of project purchases • Purchase materials when necessary