Date Posted: 03/26/2024
Req ID: 36660
Faculty/Division: Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department: Office of the Vice Dean, Research & Health Science Education
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00050823
Description:
About us:
The University of Toronto and its Academic Divisions are continually seeking to amplify the impact of their research and innovation activities. To enable this, Divisions are adding new divisional research officers to augment the expertise and bandwidth of existing highly skilled individuals already in place. The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation (VPRI) will invite these individuals together into a community of practice.
Home to over 40 departments and institutes, the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine lies at the heart of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network and is a global leader in ground-breaking research and education, spanning clinical medicine, basic science and the rehabilitation sciences sectors.
Your opportunity:
The Office of the Vice Dean, Research & Health Sciences Education oversees all research undertaken for the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and coordinates with its counterparts at the affiliated hospital research institutes for clinical research. This includes grant proposal development, administering internal funding allocations, collecting and reporting on research productivity metrics, and managing core research facilities.
The Research Funding, Awards & Honours Officer will support the Office of the Vice Dean, Research & Health Sciences Education (OVDRHSE). With a key mandate to advance research funding and impact, RHSE provides research development and administrative support to the research community at Temerty Faculty of Medicine. The position will work in collaboration with the Division of the Vice-President Research & Innovation (VPRI), as well as with other members of the RHSE pre-award team. Using your strong editorial and analytical skills, you will foster positive relationships with Principal Investigators and various internal and external stakeholders to enhance research funding proposals, ensuring they meet sponsor and institutional guidelines. You will also play a key role in developing and implementing plans that support the attainment of awards & honours. Your background and experience reviewing and editing research reports, award nominations packages and research funding applications will contribute to advancing the overall goals and initiatives of the University of Toronto.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Coordinating and guiding applicants through various phases of the research funding application process, along with writing and editing funding proposals
- Conducting detailed analysis of application policy to maximize research funding and research trends to strengthen proposals including advising on application content
- Implementing plans and process improvements for funding activities as well as developing plans that support proposal development strategies
- Researching and analyzing potential research awards and prizes and recommending academics for nomination including drafting and editing recommendation letters
- Developing project schedules including milestones, critical path, timelines, deliverables, reporting and tracking milestones and timelines by generating reports
- Developing and implementing communication plans including producing promotional outreach materials, drafting and delivering presentations as well as writing reports
- Planning and estimating financial resources required for programs and/or projects
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum five (5) years’ of relevant work experience conducting research, analyzing, interpreting and reporting on results preferably within an academic environment
- Experience in research administration, including managing grant proposal processes and reporting in a health-related or research institution, with a record of successful performance
- Experience with the federal and provincial grant cycles and funding programs, including infrastructure grants (CFI), Tri-Agency operating grants (CIHR/NSERC/SSHRC) and Canada Research Chairs (CRC)
- Demonstrated experience with development of funding applications from drafting proposals and supporting their associated budgets, to submission
- Demonstrated experience in liaising with senior administrators, responding to and handling matters of a complex and sensitive nature
- Demonstrated experience with drafting senior level documents including writing and editing nomination letters for awards
- Familiarity with research funding and awards opportunities tools
- Demonstrated project management coordination experience
- Strong proficiency with personal computers and related software, including advanced proficiency in MS Word and Excel
- Ability to write concise and informative reports and proposals
- Ability to understand a complex relational database on research funding
- Client-services oriented with demonstrated listening and critical thinking skills
- Strong decision-making skills; superior planning and project management skills with a focus on executing and competing tasks under pressure and within deadlines
- Ability to maintain a broad perspective; ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with all levels of faculty, staff, students, senior administration and external constituents
Assets (Nonessential):
- Graduate Health Sciences Degree, preferably PHD
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Communicator
- Goal oriented
- Intuitive
- Organized
- Problem solver
Please note that this position is a one-year term.
Closing Date: 04/12/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Grant - Term
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 13 -- $83,150 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $106,336. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Research Administration & Teaching
Recruiter: Andrea Varicak
Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.