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Job Opportunity - Research Project Coordinator, Women's Health Research Institute

September 25, 2019

Job Summary

The Research Project Coordinator is responsible for developing and implementing research protocols, conducting data analysis; identifying funding sources and developing grant applications and assisting in the preparation of manuscripts for scholarly publications. The work will focus on several grant funded Global Health centred HPV and STI related research studies being conducted through the Women's Health Research Institute, in the department of Global Control of HPV Related Diseases, led by Dr. Gina Ogilvie.

Organizational Status

The position is in the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), which is in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. The School is an innovative unit that encompasses many of the health-related groupings at UBC as a collaborative venture. The School is structured around four divisions: Occupational and Environmental Health; Health Services and Policy; Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health Practice; and Health in Populations. The resulting mix of professions and disciplines is seen as a means of connecting individuals and learners to galvanize the relationship between health research, public health and health services and to enhance learning.

Work Performed

- Identifies, monitors and disseminates information pertaining to various granting agencies.
- Identifies funding opportunities and coordinates grant application process. Creates trial budgets and monitors funded project budgets, ensuring  compliance with granting agency policies and procedures.
- Participates in the design, scope, planning and implementation of research studies. Collaborates on the development of assigned research protocols; and develops project tasks and plans resource requirements.
- Develops analysis plans as assigned and analyzes and verifies research findings. Extracts and codes data and interprets results.
- Contributes to the preparation of manuscripts for scholarly publications and reports for funding agencies.
- Prepares materials for presentation at academic conferences and workshops.
- Prepares ethics applications. Leads knowledge translation by preparing material and compiling and updating information to the study website.
- Performs other related duties.

FOr more information, visit https://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers-postings/staff-s.php and look for Job ID 35000.