Research Coordinator
Company : IWK Health
Req ID: 211479
Department/Program: Research Administration, Research Services
Location: Halifax
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly PT long-assignment (80% FTE) for 1 year x 1 position(s)
Start Date: October 2025
Union Status: Research, Management/Non Union Bargaining Unit
Compensation: $23.8224 - $29.7775 /hour
Closing Date: October 22, 2025 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)
IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.
Promoting an anti-racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities across Nova Scotia, and more than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who also have a long, deep, and complex history dating back over 400 years. We have the highest percentage of people with disabilities in the country. Nova Scotia has the highest proportions of transgender and non-binary people than any other province or territory in the country. We are active in our work to eliminate discrimination, but have more work to do to build that trust, acknowledge our biases and reduce the barriers our diverse communities face. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.
The Opportunity
This Research Coordinator position focuses exclusively on providing advanced coordination, leadership, and research support to the CHILD-BRIGHT Implementation Science Research Program (ISRP), co-led by Dr. Janet Curran and Dr. Steven Miller. Working under the guidance of the ISRP Manager, Dr. Simonne Collins, and Program Leads, the Research Coordinator will facilitate strategic planning, operational oversight, and partnership engagement for multiple patient-oriented implementation science projects.
Employing institution is the IWK Health Center. As applicable, benefits, including vacation, are per IWK Health’s employment benefits package.
About CHILD-BRIGHT:
The CHILD-BRIGHT Network is a pan-Canadian, patient-oriented research network working to create brighter futures for children and youth with brain-based developmental disabilities and their families. The ISRP, a key program within the network, supports the implementation, evaluation, and scale-up of evidence-based health interventions across Canada, in close partnership with patients, families, and service providers.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead network coordination of multi-site, patient-oriented implementation science projects, including tracking deliverables, timelines, and milestones in collaboration with investigators, partners, and team members.
• Oversee project documentation in line with CIHR patient-oriented research frameworks and facilitate grant reports to CIHR.
• Manage and facilitate ISRP committee and project team meetings, including setting agendas, preparing briefing materials, recording detailed minutes, and identifying actionable next steps.
• Support knowledge mobilization and communications, including co-developing accessible outputs (e.g., executive summaries, policy briefs, infographics) for diverse audiences.
• Supporting engagement through co-developing outputs for persons with lived experience and other program members with the network.
• Contribute to grant development and reporting activities, including coordination of team inputs and tracking of team milestones.
• Maintain effective communication across geographically dispersed collaborators and ensure consistent engagement of patient and family partners.
• Conduct research activities within the scope of the ISRP including recruitment logistics, conducting interviews with network members, data analysis, visualization, and interpretation, and contribute to manuscripts.
• Provide mentorship and oversight to student trainees and research assistants involved in ISRP projects.
• Advance equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and lived experience integration in all research coordination and engagement activities.
Hours of Work
Monday - Friday. This hybrid position is 0.8 FTE, with an expectation of 3 days per week on site at IWK Health Centre.
Your Qualifications
• Master’s degree in a health-related discipline (e.g., psychology, public health, implementation science, rehabilitation, nursing, social work).
• Minimum 2–3 years experience coordinating multi-institutional or patient-oriented research projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and work experience in child development or childhood disability highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in knowledge synthesis and use of tools such as Covidence and MEDLINE.
• Strong project management and communication skills, including use of digital collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom, shared drives).
• Demonstrated ability to communicate scientific information in written and oral mediums. Scientific publication track record highly desirable.
• Experience conducting participant interviews and qualitative data analysis highly desirable.
• Proven ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and maintain attention to detail.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and meaningful partnership with people with lived experience.
Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.
Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.
This is a Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.
An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials.
If you are an employee of IWK Health, please apply through the internal careers page to ensure you are flagged as an internal applicant.
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