Project Coordinator

University of British Columbia


Employees – Non Union

Job Class
Non Union Technicians and Analysis Assistants

Job Profile
Non Union Salaried – Analysis Assistant /Technician 4

Job Title
Mission Coordinator

Division
Kobor Laboratory Centre for Molecular Drugs and Therapeutics College of Drugs

Compensation Vary
$4,558.75 – $5,354.67 CAD Month-to-month

Posting Finish Date
August 22, 2023

Notice: Purposes will likely be accepted till 11:59 PM on the day previous to the Posting Finish Date above.

Job Finish Date

Sept 4, 2024

This place is positioned inside a health-care facility, subsequently, the profitable candidate will likely be required to supply verification of full vaccination towards Covid-19 offered previous to the beginning date, as required by a provincial well being mandate.

At UBC, we imagine that attracting and sustaining a various workforce is essential to the profitable pursuit of excellence in analysis, innovation, and studying for all school, workers and college students. Our dedication to employment fairness helps obtain inclusion and equity, brings wealthy range to UBC as a office, and creates the required situations for a rewarding profession. 

Job Abstract

The Kobor Lab is searching for a extremely motivated and bold particular person to work as a Mission Coordinator on a analysis research targeted on understanding the potential results of in utero publicity to wildfire catastrophe occasions on organic markers at beginning, together with epigenetic and inflammatory markers, and longer-term results on little one improvement, well being and habits. The profitable applicant will likely be concerned in protocol and technique improvement and research coordination and administration and can work with an interdisciplinary workforce of investigators and trainees on the College of British Columbia, BC Kids’s Hospital Analysis Institute and BC Centre for Illness Management.

Main tasks embrace however aren’t restricted to: writing and submitting human ethics functions, creating recruitment protocols, recruiting and consenting individuals, administering questionnaires, liaising with research investigators, and getting ready stories, funding functions, and different paperwork.

Organizational Standing
This place stories to the lead Principal Investigator Dr. Michael Kobor (Medical Genetics), and works along side his analysis workforce and with different investigators and analysis personnel inside the Centre for Molecular Drugs and Therapeutics (CMMT), College of British Columbia, and exterior establishments.
Work Carried out

  • Writes, prepares and submits functions and paperwork for approval by the UBC Analysis ethics board, together with research protocols and consent kinds
  • Prepares information entry requests, data sharing agreements and requests to Inhabitants Information BC for information entry and linkage
  • Develops and implements approaches for recruiting research individuals from round British Columbia
  • Oversees the progress of the analysis undertaking, and participates in undertaking/technique improvement, execution of the research, information evaluation, and dissemination of outcomes
  • Manages and oversees the undertaking funds, forecasting, and upkeep of economic stories; completes monetary processes utilizing the UBC Workday system
  • Consents individuals and liaises with research individuals to make sure completion of the research
  • Administers questionnaires to individuals
  • Liaises with investigators and trainees concerned within the undertaking, together with planning conferences and maintaining workforce members up to date on the research progress and outcomes
  • Oversees research progress and troubleshoots when required to make sure research milestones are achieved
  • Performs information evaluation, together with information cleansing, processing, backup and storage
  • Develops stories and different communications as requested by the funder and donors
  • Identifies funding alternatives and develops funding functions; assists with manuscript writing
  • Communicates with numerous stakeholders and end-users to disseminate research progress and outcomes, together with authorities businesses/ministries, non-profit organizations, and well being authorities/organizations.
  • Carry out advert hoc duties as needed.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

The incumbent is required to conduct all undertaking coordination actions in an moral method following accredited tips. Confidentiality should be revered when coping with analysis information. Research information should be saved secured to make sure that affected person confidentiality isn’t compromised. Errors made may affect the flexibility of analysis workers to fulfill crucial deadlines, in addition to compromise the outcomes of analysis tasks, and subsequently influence the credibility and funding of the principal investigator, UBC and CMMT, and different inner and exterior analysis companions.

Supervision Obtained

Path is offered by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Kobor; nevertheless, the place requires a robust impartial work ethic and a candidate able to setting their very own instructions and priorities inside a given framework and dealing inside agreed-upon milestones and timelines. 

Supervision Given

Might often oversee junior workers and college students as required.

Assists and supplies tips to different analysis members as required.

Minimal {Qualifications}
Completion of a college diploma in a related self-discipline or technical program and a minimal 4 years of associated expertise or an equal mixture of schooling and expertise. Some positions could require a graduate diploma.
– Willingness to respect numerous views, together with views in battle with one’s personal

– Demonstrates a dedication to enhancing one’s personal consciousness, information, and abilities associated to fairness, range, and inclusion

Most well-liked {Qualifications}

  • Robust understanding of human biology and life science is most well-liked;
  • Expertise in a scientific/medical analysis surroundings together with a full understanding of analysis methodology;
  • Expertise in main and managing a big analysis undertaking;
  • Demonstrated expertise in getting ready human ethics functions and with the UBC RISe system;
  • Expertise with the UBC Workday system, and UBC’s monetary processes, insurance policies, and procedures is a robust asset;
  • Expertise with information processing and administration, together with generally used statistical software program (e.g. R, SPSS, Prism, and many others.);
  • Demonstrated expertise coordinating giant human cohort research, together with recruiting individuals and dealing with confidential data and information;
  • Pc literacy together with Microsoft Workplace and writing/publishing software program comparable to EndNote or Mendeley;
  • Wonderful interpersonal abilities and skill to speak with a multidisciplinary workforce of researchers, members of the general public and a broad vary of stakeholders;
  • Means to work independently and to train initiative to make choices and troubleshoot as required;
  • Excessive diploma of resourcefulness, motivation, enthusiasm and initiative;
  • Wonderful scientific writing talents and understanding of analysis strategies;
  • Wonderful group and communication abilities (written and verbal);
  • Means to understand and incorporate broad scientific ideas and successfully talk advanced scientific points;
  • Means to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines;
  • Attentive to element, with the flexibility to work rapidly and precisely;
  • Means to interpret outcomes and make suggestions for implementation;
  • Means to train tact and discretion in communication;
  • Robust analytical, drawback fixing, resolution making and organizational abilities;
  • Should conduct all actions in an moral method and deal with funding data and analysis information confidentially.

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