Pay Grade: / 12
Title: / Health Research Methodologist
Unit/Project Description:
For Department use only.
Job Summary: / The Health Research Methodologist is responsible for the design, planning, and execution of research projects and preparation of grants for funding and will: develop and supervise the management of clinical and research data management systems; analyze and interpret data; develop research protocols and standard operating procedures; write reports and manuscripts for peer-review; prepare and present research for scientific meetings; and perform critical systematic review of the literature.
Purpose and Key Functions: /
- Develop new methodologies to analyze and interpret data.
- Design, plan and execute research projects.
- Coordinate data analysis for multiple research projects.
- Develop and supervise the management of clinical and research data management systems.
- Author manuscripts for peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters in scientific texts.
- Develop research study protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Participate in various committees to act as a consultant on study methodology and participate in provincial level meetings that involve planning resource allocation, setting research objectives and planning and conducting new research studies.
- Prepare grant proposals which includes sections such as background, ethical considerations, clinical implications, study logistics, timelines, sample size calculations and study budgets
- Review and submit budgets for clinical studies.
- Plan, conduct and prepare systematic reviews to perform literature searches and critical appraisal of individual studies to identify valid and applicable evidence.
- Design and present conference abstracts and oral presentations for national and international meetings and conferences.
- Conduct complex statistical analyses, and consolidate and present information in tables and figures.
- Conduct a meta-analyses for projects involving systematic reviews.
- Liaise a variety of external stakeholders.
Supervision: / Provide lead hand supervision and is responsible for the quality and quantity of work of others.
Requirements: / Doctoral degree in Epidemiology, Health Research Methodology or a related field.
Requires 6 years of relevant experience.
Assets:
For Department use only.
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