Description:
The Senior Research Associate provides professional assistance to the Director in matters relating to the Institute's research and administration. The Senior Research Associate is responsible for the education, training and mentoring of Institute research staff, advising graduate students, and sharing ideas and approaches and working cooperatively with all Diversity Institute professionals. The successful candidate will oversee research design and methodology for academic and action-oriented research on diversity and inclusion in the workforce and entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems. In association with other Diversity Institute research, writes research reports and papers and disseminates research findings and research results through articles and presentations and in communications with the media.
Qualifications
- You must have a graduate degree (PhD preferred) with a minimum of 1 (one) year of experience in managing diverse, large and complex research projects, both in academic and industry settings.
- Previous knowledge of qualitative research methods and understanding academic publication conventions is required. Strong writing of academic papers and industry focused reports is required.
- Experience in program evaluation methods is highly desirable.
- Experience working in education, skills development and/or training sectors is an asset.
- French language is an asset.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- As a ‘top-notch’ researcher you must have experience in writing research and grant proposals and understand diversity issues in the workplace.
- You have extensive knowledge and skills in automation, programming and coding to provide data analysis and visualization for large data sets and you have experience in working with labour and economic data.
- Your previous experience will also include working in a research environment and the dissemination of research findings to professional, business and academic audiences.
- Being a team player and building relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders is important to http
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- chieve the objectives of the Institute and the university.You are meticulously organized and capable of handling a multitude of projects of a diverse nature,