RESEARCH ASSISTANT IV

Department, Unit or Project Description:

The Research Assistant (IV) will be supporting a study on how to understand the experiences of health leaders and nurses during COVID-19 and to develop recommendations that will advance post-crisis leadership strategies and practices for Canadian health system leaders to address leader and nurses’ psychological health and wellbeing, as well as organizational resilience.

Job Summary:

Provides specialized research support to faculty members in their teaching/ laboratory activities. Work is performed independently.

Accountabilities:

• Designs, adapts and performs specialized research procedures.
• Carries out complex statistical analysis.
• Assists with recruiting participants for studies.
• Coordinates and conducts structured project participant interviews and focus groups.
• Conducts literature reviews and synthesis.
• Contributes to the writing of research related reports and manuscripts.
• Coordinates the use of laboratory equipment.
• Records, classifies, and summarizes research data according to established procedures.
• Performs other related tasks as outlined by the research coordinator.

Assets:

• Preference to background in Nursing Leadership
• Undergraduate degree in Nursing, Gerontology, Public Health, or related field
• Master's degree is considered an asset
• Background in qualitative methods
• Experience with Microsoft Office, data analysis (e.g., SPSS, MaxQDA), reference manager software (e.g., Mendeley), and electronic data capture systems (e.g., REDCap).
• Evidence of excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work interdependently and with an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to develop study organizational charts (i.e., Gantt charts) for the timing and execution of all study procedures.
• Strong creativity, critical thinking, and organization skills.