Ville : Toronto

Catégorie : Full Time

Industrie : Healthcare

Employeur : The Hospital for Sick Children

About Sickkids

Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world.  As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education.  Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day.  SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world's best in paediatric healthcare.

Posting Description

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Child Health Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute

Supervised by Dr. Peter Gill and Dr. Sanjay Mahant

We are seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join a multidisciplinary research program focused on improving care and outcomes for hospitalized children through the Canadian Paediatric Inpatient Research Network (PIRN) (https://www.pirncanada.com/). This full-time position is based within Child Health Evaluative Sciences at the SickKids Research Institute and will be supervised by Dr. Peter Gill and Dr. Sanjay Mahant, paediatricians and scientists with a strong program of patient oriented research in paediatric hospital medicine (https://lab.research.sickkids.ca/mahant-gill/).

The successful candidate will play a leading role in advancing a portfolio of multi-centre prospective observational studies, along with other observational studies, systematic reviews, and grant development. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated post-doctoral fellow with strong skills in epidemiology, academic writing, and collaborative research to contribute to impactful child health research. Research training and career development will be available through the Research Training Centre at SickKids. The appointment is for one year, with the possibility of extension to two years, and is intended as a full-time position.

When applying to the position, please include a cover letter outlining your motivation to work with our group, your relevant experience, a brief description of your long-term career goals and how this position will help to facilitate these goals, and an example/link to a research paper of yours. Please also provide a list of two references (1 of which should be the PhD supervisor).

Here's What You Get to Do

• Lead and support the analysis and manuscript development for key multi-centre prospective observational studies focused on hospitalized children within PIRN.
• Oversee study analysis activities, including secondary analysis protocol development, data quality assurance, and preparation of manuscripts, progress reports, abstracts, posters, and presentations.
• Coordinate aspects of multi-centre study execution in accordance with regulatory and institutional guidelines, including study administration, remaining patient recruitment and data collection, and collaboration with participating study sites.
• Work closely with Drs. Gill and Mahant on systematic reviews, retrospective and other observational studies, and the development of new study protocols.
• Contribute to the development of grant applications, including preparing detailed grant outlines, drafting and revising content, and supporting submission to funding agencies.
• Collaborate with methodologists, co-investigators, collaborators, patient partners, and knowledge users to inform study design and strengthen grant proposals.
• Translate research findings into a range of knowledge products, such as infographics, abstracts, summaries, and materials for public and stakeholder engagement.
• Support and help oversee students and trainees working in the lab.
• Serve as a key point of communication across investigators, methodologists, collaborators, patient partners, and stakeholders to foster strong research relationships and project momentum.

Here's What You'll Need

• A PhD in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or a related field.
• Strong training and working knowledge in epidemiologic methods and observational study design.
• Strong knowledge of clinical research design and methodologies.
• Experience with protocol development and grant writing.
• Demonstrated strength in academic writing, including manuscripts, reports, and presentations.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in child health research.
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills, particularly in multi-site research environments.
• Experience in knowledge translation is an asset.
• The successful applicant will be encourage to apply for external funding support.
• A commitment to understanding and aiding in the pursuit of equity, diversity and inclusion objectives.

Employment Type: Full-time, 1-year contract with option for renewal for 1-2 years; modified benefits.

Our Commitment to Diversity

SickKids is committed to championing equity, diversity and inclusion in all that we do, fostering an intentionally inclusive and culturally safe environment that reflects the diversity of the patients, families and communities we serve. Learn more about workplace inclusion.

Accessibility & Accommodation

If you require accommodation during the application process, please reach out to our aSKHR team.  SickKids can provide access and inclusion supports to eligible candidates to support their full engagement during the interview and selection process as well as to ensure candidates are able to perform their duties once successfully hired.  If you are invited for an interview and require accommodation, please let us know at the time of your invitation to interview. Information received related to access, inclusion or accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

How to Apply

Technical difficulties? Email ask.hr@sickkids.ca with a short description of the issues you are experiencing. We will not accept resumes sent to this inbox but we are happy to respond to requests for technical assistance.

Tip: Combine your cover letter and resume into ONE document of 20 pages or less as you cannot upload multiple documents as part of your application.

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