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Category : Full time

Industry : Educational Services

Employer : University of British Columbia

Job Category

Job Title

Department

Posting End Date

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

$25/hour

Job Description

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Overseeing and coordinating research project activities

• Participate in project and lab team meetings

• Prepare reports and academic articles for publication

• Perform both quantitative and qualitative analyses of research data

• Knowledge translation of the products of this research (e.g. presentations to group stakeholders, partners, at academic conferences; media & social media activities, etc)

• Ensure ethical standards of research are followed, monitored and maintained at all times

• Develop procedures to support research protocols

• Become Tri-Council Research Ethics certified (if not already)

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• Attend monthly community advisory team meetings

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• Co-develop an accessible, web-based communication system with PI (Shahin Kassam) research team

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• Assist with co-designing and translating study material

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• Engage with community-based qualitative methods including collecting, cleaning, inputting, and co-analyzing data generated from diverse sources in collaboration with the PI and community partners

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• Co-present emerging findings from analyses at community advisory team meetings including co-creation of data visualizations

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• Engage with literature review methods: Co-write a literature review protocol and conduct a preliminary search on the research topic; co-present findings at a research team meeting

• Perform other related duties as required

Qualifications

• Registered and enrolled in a Graduate degree

• Experience in research

• Maintain good academic standing

• Excellent organizational skills

• Exceptional interpersonal skills

• Good written and verbal communication

• Basic computer literacy

• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own

• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion