Senior Analyst, Research Strategic Initiatives (Security)
Senior Analyst, Research Strategic Initiatives (Security)
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Job Type:
EmployeeDuration in Months (for fixedterm jobs):
36Job Family:
Analytics and Reporting# of Open Positions:
1Faculty/Service Department:
Research Strategic InitiativesCampus:
Main CampusUnion Affiliation:
N/ADate Posted:
May 08 2025Applications must be received BEFORE:
May 19 2025Hours per week:
35Salary Grade:
NonUnion Grade NC8 35 hrsSalary Range:
$94214.00 $117768.00Position Purpose
The Senior Analyst supports the Research Security Directorate and more broadly the OVPRI mission by implementing and advancing the inaugural research security program and building capacity to address the requirements from provincial and federal governments. The incumbent ensures precise and reliable strategic and technical information is available to stakeholders (including researchers research advisors and research administrators) and partners and has a solid understanding of the newly designed institutional research security model performance indicators business operations and priorities.
Finally the incumbent provides guidance and advice to clients (based on inhouse research security designed tools commercialized software and tools) in order to align with government (federal and provincial) research security requirements.
Specific Accountabilities
- Risk Assessment: Provide professional expertise to the research community with respect to risk assessment techniques and processes educate the research community to anticipate risk and issues in plans and requirements and to take appropriate action to mitigate and resolve them.
- Research analysis: Provides professional expertise develop recommendations for internal research security policy processes risk mitigation strategies and practices to comply with government enacted research security requirements.
- Data analysis: Provides quantitative processes data analysis and prepares documentation for upper management and faculty research advisors administrators which explain data sources trends and comparisons related to strategic research performance indicators.
- Design: Designs complete solutions to complex research security problems (including workflows conceptual and logical data models for the data warehouse environment static and dynamic reporting tools and data visualization techniques) applicable in a wide array of university operations using specialized software and technologies unique to the nascent field of research security.
- Development and Testing: Collaborates with IT services and external vendors to develop and implement business intelligence projects and complex programs including business needs assessment scoping solutions identifying data sources and business rules evaluating the technical and operational feasibility of solutions proposed and performs integration tests to ensure correct functionality of solution. Evaluates and diagnoses the impact of proposed solutions on existing systems ensuring their coherence with those already in place.
Knowledge Experience Competencies and Skills
- A masters degree in Biomedical engineering Computer science Political Sciences or related field preferably with a strong research background or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Five (5) years experience in opensource information or intelligence gathering and analysis.
- Ability to effectively apply high level critical thinking skills.
- Ability to work in a flexible on and offcampus hybrid environment.
- Ability to identify issues and take proactive action including adjusting to changing priorities as necessary.
- Bilingualism English and French with strong communication skills both oral and written.
- Excellent analytic skills and a detailoriented approach to issues and analyses.
- Experience advising and briefing senior managers especially academic leadership.
- Experience in creating analytical and advisory products from diverse information sources.
- Experience working in a complex multistakeholder and fastpaced environment with shifting priorities and judgement to assess and balance institutional individual and national needs.
- Knowledge of geopolitics national security research security cyber security and the threat environment.
- Knowledge of emerging Canadian and international research security standards policies and programs.
- Knowledge of the academic environment and experience working with researchers.
- Knowledge of policies guidelines and granting/contracting practices of federal and provincial funding agencies and departments as well as granting foundations.
- Proven knowledge of corporate/financial analysis or due diligence and ability to utilize various opensource platforms such as Strider Kharon Dimensions etc. to conduct a range of searching is an asset.
- Proven track record of effective information synthesis and knowledge translation and dissemination skills including publications public speaking science communication opinion pieces writing briefings grant writing etc.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 products.
*This position may be eligible for a telework arrangement. Learn more about our telework guidelines click here
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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and selfstarting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.
The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect teamwork and inclusion where collaboration innovation and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons racialized persons persons with disabilities women and LGBTQIA2S persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible barrierfree work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.
If this is a frontline position with responsibilities to interact with students selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.
Prior to May 1 2022 the University required all students faculty staff and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid19 as defined in Policy 129 Covid19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
