Senior Research Associate

This place is part of the Affiliation of the Educational Employees of the College of Alberta (AASUA).

In accordance with the Belief/Analysis Educational Employees Settlement , this place provides a complete advantages bundle discovered on our Advantages Overview web page and annual wage vary of $75,010 to $103,162.

This place has an approximate appointment of two years. 

Location – Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton. This function is in individual.

Working for the College of Alberta

The College of Alberta acknowledges that we’re positioned on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to counterpoint our vibrant group.

The College of Alberta is teeming with change makers, group builders, and world shapers who lead with objective each day. We’re dwelling to greater than 40,000 college students in 200+ undergraduate and 500+ graduate packages, over 13,000 college and employees, 260,000 alumni worldwide and have been acknowledged as one among Canada’s Greenest Employers for over a decade.

Your work can have a significant affect on an interesting cross part of individuals—from our college students and stakeholders, to our famend researchers and innovators who’re fairly actually curing illnesses, making discoveries and producing options that make the world more healthy, safer, stronger, and extra simply.

Working for the Division/School

The Well being Expertise & Coverage Unit within the Faculty of Public Well being undertakes analysis aimed toward creating information to assist honest, evidence-informed determination making across the introduction and use of well being applied sciences, companies and packages within the publicly funded well being care system.  It additionally conducts well being know-how assessments (HTAs) and proof critiques for Alberta Well being.  HTA makes use of evaluative strategies from the social and utilized sciences, together with scientific epidemiology, biostatistics, well being economics, modelling, and qualitative methods to systematically look at the scientific, financial, social, authorized, moral and general system implications of well being applied sciences and packages.

Place Abstract

The primary function of this place can be to steer the manufacturing of Well being Proof Critiques (HERs) on the request of presidency. It requires proficiency in systematic evaluation (together with important appraisal and meta-analytic methods) and scoping evaluation strategies; primary quantitative methods; and qualitative approaches to accumulating and analysing knowledge. Robust communication abilities are wanted, because the place should work together with many alternative stakeholder communities. Along with this fundamental function, there can be  alternatives to interact in different analysis associated to strategies for assessing applied sciences, companies and packages all through their lifecycle and figuring out the broader social worth of therapies for uncommon illnesses as a part of different grants held by members of the Unit.  Subsequently, actions during which the analysis affiliate can be concerned embody planning, creating, conducting, implementing and disseminating analysis within the type of HTAs and different empirical work.

Duties

• Lead, in addition to undertake systematic and scoping critiques of well being proof
• Conduct analyses of administrative knowledge
• Liaise with members of varied stakeholder communities
• Characterize the Unit at conferences and conferences
• Interact in different analysis actions of the Unit

{Qualifications}

PhD in epidemiology, biostatistics, well being companies analysis, or public well being required.

• Minimal of 4 years analysis expertise in a publish graduate analysis and schooling surroundings
• Peer-reviewed publication observe report (in areas related to HTA most popular)
• Wonderful quantitative and qualitative analysis abilities
• Robust communication abilities (each written and oral)
• Robust interpersonal, organizational, and significant pondering abilities
• Means to work independently and in a staff
• Proficient in Microsoft Workplace (Phrase, PowerPoint, Entry, and Excel)
• Proficient in EndNote or different software program for conducting systematic critiques and meta-analyses
• Proficient in STATA, SPSS, or SAS
• Proficient in nVIVO
• Proficient in EndNote or different bibliographic database administration software program

The next {qualifications} can be thought of an asset:

• Expertise main tutorial or utilized analysis groups
• Expertise instructing graduate college students qualitative and quantitative analysis strategies
• Coaching in information integration for enhancing the uptake of analysis findings
• Expertise in consensus constructing methods

Find out how to Apply

Please submit on-line the next:

• Cowl Letter
• Curriculum Vitae
• Listing of Publications 

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