Research Manager, Department of Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB Full-time Salary not specified
The University of Calgary’s Department of Medicine in the Cumming School of Medicine is hiring a full-time Research Manager for an approximately one-year fixed-term appointment, with the possibility of extension depending on grant funding.
Reporting to the Principal Investigator, the Research Manager provides scientific, strategic, and operational leadership for a nationally collaborative health services and outcomes research program focused on inflammatory arthritis, healthcare quality, equity, and sustainability.
Responsibilities
- Lead research design, implementation, analysis plans, and evaluation of health service innovations and models of care.
- Provide methodological expertise in health services research, outcomes research, epidemiology, and administrative health data.
- Lead methods sections, feasibility assessments, and budget development for grant applications; contribute to proposal writing and funder reporting.
- Oversee ethics applications, data access requests, data-sharing agreements, and compliance with applicable policies and requirements.
- Manage program planning, budgets, grants, agreements, contracts, milestones, and sustainability.
- Recruit, supervise, and develop research staff and trainees; allocate staff across projects and manage performance.
- Coordinate with investigators, patient partners, health system partners, data custodians, organizations, and funders.
- Translate findings into reports, dashboards, briefings, and other formats for clinical, policy, health system, and patient audiences.
Qualifications
- PhD in epidemiology, health services research, public health, or a related discipline, with peer-reviewed publications.
- At least seven years of health research experience, including three to five years managing projects and leading staff.
- Demonstrated leadership in health services or outcomes research, including observational studies using administrative health data.
- Experience contributing substantively to successful peer-reviewed grant applications, including methods and budget development.
- Experience managing projects, staff allocation, and budgets across multiple funding sources, and mentoring trainees.
- Knowledge of Alberta and Canadian health data assets and the processes for accessing them.
- Experience with pragmatic evaluations, patient-oriented research, qualitative or mixed methods, or health data access is an asset. Experience with University of Calgary systems and unionized staff management is also an asset.
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