Jobs at UBC – Research Coordinator

Job Description:

The vision of the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine is to be a provincially integrated Department committed to clinical, academic, and health care delivery leadership, founded in the creation and exchange of knowledge to improve emergency care. Our faculty members across the province have an impressive record of research and discovery related to prevention of emergencies, improving clinical care, and system improvements. Our Royal College residency training program, distributed across four program sites, is the largest in the country providing high-quality emergency training. The Department of Emergency Medicine has also played a leadership role in the development and implementation of the BC Emergency Medicine Network which integrates and translates knowledge and experiences to support emergency practitioners across the province.

The Canadian COVID-19 ED Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN), a national collaboration and registry of Emergency Department (ED) patients presenting with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, that was initiated to support creating a rapid knowledge-to-action cycle to inform the pandemic response. The CCEDRRN’s main goal is to harmonize and standardize data collection across Canadian EDs to enable large-scale observational and quasi-experimental designs. Planned studies will derive, validate and implement clinical decision rules to standardize clinical Emergency Department decision-making for COVID-19 patients

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensures compliance with provincial and institutional ethics guidelines and privacy laws.
• Oversees study timelines to ensure tasks are completed on time, set deadlines, report on progress, troubleshoot to ensure deadlines met.
• Develops knowledge translation materials.
• Develops manuscripts, and supports the publication of registry studies and sub-studies.
• Provides data and technical writing for the development of grant applications, ethics applications, data access applications, publication materials, and reporting to granting agencies.
• Coordinates and balances complex schedules to arrange study team meetings, as well as meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Works laterally with a Data Manager and Analysts to clean data and prepare data for release to other scientists for approved study protocols.
• Documents and validates raw data, analyzed data, and program(s) used for data analysis. This may include creation of analytic variables and generation of a data dictionary.
• Performs sample size calculations.
• Interprets study protocols, to complete submissions for ethics applications, data access requests, and data creation and analytic plans of planned registry studies and sub-studies.
• Generates summary reports, graphs, and presentations based on study needs to support decisions by the study writing groups.
• Links, analyzes, and tabulates data obtained from various studies by using data analysis software (e.g. SAS, STATA, R)
• Extracts, manages, and cleans quantitative data
• Prepares analytic plan for manuscripts in collaboration with PI and co-investigators.
• Contributes to grant submissions by revising applications, comparing materials to grant guidelines, organizing co-investigators, tracking deadlines, completing research project information forms, and obtaining signatures.
• Writes abstracts for conference competitions and produce and deliver poster and/or oral presentations to aid in the translation of knowledge and dissemination of study findings.

Job Requirements:

• Effective organizational and planning skills.
• University degree in relevant discipline or completion of a technical program and a minimum five years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Some positions may require a graduate degree.
• Experience: Relevant research experience in Observational and Quasi-Experimental Designs, Registries, Administrative data and Clinical Epidemiology an asset
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Ability to exercise appropriate tact, discretion, confidentiality and good judgement in all matters.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Education: Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Public Health or Biostatics is preferred.
• Ability to effectively use MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet searches, and STATA, SAS or R at an advanced level.
• Ability work accurately, and under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently with appropriate initiative, as well as effectively with others in a team environment.
• Excellent methodological skills

Job Details:

Company: The University of British Columbia

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Vancouver, BC, CA

Application Deadline: N/A

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