Research Assistant SRI - Evaluative Clinical Sciences - Regular Full-time 2025-13021
Research Assistant SRI - Evaluative Clinical Sciences - Regular Full-time 2025-13021
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One of Canadas Top 10 Research Hospitals Sunnybrook Research Institute is developing innovations in care for the more than 1.3 million patients the hospital cares for annually.
Sunnybrook Research Institute is the research enterprise of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Research spans three Torontobased campuses eight programs and three scientific platforms. Our main aims are to understand and prevent disease and to develop treatments that enhance and extend life. Our vision is to invent the future of health care. Each year we conduct about $100 million in research across 500000 square feet including in the worlds first Centre for Research in ImageGuided Therapeutics.
Dr. Mitchell as part of the Suicide Research Prevention Collaborative is seeking a knowledgeable enthusiastic and hardworking individual to fill the role of Research Assistant. The successful applicant will collaborate with members of the research team to work on various research projects on adolescent mood disorders selfharm and suicide prevention. This is a hybrid position with the successful candidate expected to work both onsite at Sunnybrooks Bayview campus and remotely from home on designated days.
This role is fulltime 37.5 hours per week); Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm some flexibility required. Preference will be given to candidates who can commit to approximately two years in the lab.
Summary of Duties:
- Assist in the coordination of multiple studies with guidance from the principal investigator.
- Meet regularly with study leads to track progress maintain timelines and troubleshoot challenges.
- Conduct literature reviews and contribute to the development of new research projects.
- Collaborate with internal research teams broader research collectives and individuals with lived experience to inform study design and implementation.
- Assist with both qualitative and quantitative data collection across several projects while simultaneously ensuring adherence to study protocols.
- Support both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis in adherence to study protocols.
- Manage data entry cleaning organization and analysis.
- Contribute to knowledge translation efforts including writing scientific reports abstracts manuscripts and presentations for conferences and journals.
- Prepare and submit research ethics board applications and amendments; ensure ongoing compliance.
- Assist with grant writing and preparation of funding applications.
- Complete administrative tasks as needed such as tracking expenses supporting grant reporting and assisting with onboarding of research staff or students.
- Assist with interpreting results and preparing dissemination materials.
- Support daily operations of ongoing research studies.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of Bachelors degree in a health or psychologyrelated field or equivalent.
- At least 12 years of clinical research experience and/or experience in psychology or psychiatryrelated research.
- Training in TCPS/GCP guidelines.
- Knowledge or experience in biostatistics epidemiology research methods grant and manuscript writing is strongly preferred
- Knowledge or experience in using quantitative and qualitative research methods is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs (Word PowerPoint Excel etc. SPSS and NVivo.
- Excellent communication interpersonal and organizational skills
- Attention to detail strong time management skills and ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Experience with database design and maintenance (e.g. REDCap) is desired.
- Experience working with administrative health data is an asset.
Employment Type
Full-Time
