Research Associate - Research, Innovation & Discovery
Req ID: 195227
Location: Eastern Zone, Cape Breton Regional Hospital
Department: Research, Innovation & Discovery
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 3-Feb-25
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.
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About the Opportunity
This role offers the opportunity to support developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative research initiatives to improve patient care, healthcare systems, and health outcomes. The Research Associate contributes to a variety of health research studies or divisions by assisting with study administration and preparing research proposal drafts and associated budgets, undertaking literature reviews, searching for funding opportunities, preparing grant submissions, drafting reports and manuscripts, preparing documents for ethics approval, and providing leadership and delegating to Research Assistants as necessary. In this role, the research associate will implement research studies, ensuring adherence to ethical guidelines, study protocols, and compliance with healthcare regulations. The Research Associate will also engage with patients, families, and caregivers (where appropriate) to collect qualitative or quantitative data for studies.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Bachelor's degree in a health sciences or social sciences discipline (e.g. psychology, epidemiology, community/public health) and combined 3 years of research experience required
- Master's degree in a health sciences or social sciences discipline (e.g. psychology, epidemiology, community/public health) and minimum of 2 years research experience as asset
- Minimum of two years research experience required
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat, email and internet
- Familiarity with qualitative/quantitative analysis software package such as NVivo, SAS, R an asset
- Familiarly with reference manager program (Zotero) an asset
- Familiarity with health research
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Outstanding attention to detail
- Strong report writing skills
- Effective interpersonal, communication and teaching skills
- Demonstrated time management and organizational skills
- Effective research and analytical thinking skills
- Strong negotiation, conflict resolution and rapport-building skills
- Ability to work well independently as well as within a multidisciplinary team environment
- Demonstrates understanding of own role and responsibilities.
- Prioritizes own work and workload.
- Balances competing work demands to meet deadlines
Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
Full-time, long assignment (75 hours bi-weekly)
9-month assignment, starting as soon as possible
This role requires you to be onsite and is based in Sydney, Nova Scotia
Compensation and Benefits
$28.59 - $35.74 Hourly
$55,762.01- $69,702.36 Annually
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.
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