Union: Non-Union
Number of vacancies: 1
New or Replacement Position: Replacement
Site: Hydro Place - 700 University Avenue
Department: Research Quality Integration (RQI)
Reports to: Manager, Research Quality and Compliance
Salary Range: $40.49 $60.73 per hour or $78,954 to $118,424 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Shifts: Days
Status: Temporary Full-Time
Closing Date: May 18, 2026
Position Summary
Research Quality Integration supports the UHN research community by identifying risks to quality, and opportunities for improvement, facilitating safe, effective and efficient solutions to enable regulatory compliance, while achieving best practice standards in research at UHN. The Research Quality Associate works with the research community, including scientists, research teams, senior leadership, Research Solutions & Service leadership, conducting and reporting internal quality audits and promoting leading practices in quality, risk management and responsible conduct of research.
Duties
- Coordinating and leading research quality audits, collaborating with Investigators and research teams in identifying gaps and facilitating corrective and preventive actions;
- Collection, analysis of related program data, trending results, preparing key performance indicators, participating in preparation of executive reporting;
- Assisting in the coordination and support of risk management activities, collaborating with risk owners to identify, assess, evaluate, plan and monitor risk mitigation strategies
- Assessing and monitoring of the internal and external research environment, governing legislation, guidelines and regulations to facilitate identification of potential risks or quality gaps;
- Managing projects that are integral to RQI strategic initiatives, including coordinating and conducting research program review activities, and system/process gap analyses;
- Participating in the development and communication of research best practice standards, including delivering effective education, training and support to research programs.
- Benchmarking and evaluation of research programs, services, systems, tool