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RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MUHCThe Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is a world-renowned biomedical and hospital research centre. Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Institute is the research arm of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The RI-MUHC is supported in part by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS).Position summaryCANTRAIN is a national clinical trial training program (CTTP) in response to a call by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). Its vision is to offer the best, certified and standardized clinical trials’ training and mentoring program across Canada accompanied by Internships for Trainees in a real-world setting. CANTRAIN is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from Black, Indigenous and racialized people, people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities. CANTRAIN also recognizes the need for experience, knowledge and guidance from communities disproportionately affected by chronic or rare diseases.ROLE:The CRE utilizes adult learning principles and instructional strategies to adapt, create, implement, and evaluate CANTRAIN educational programs. These initiatives aim to enhance clinical research competency, achieve high standards of regulatory compliance and facilitate ongoing clinical research professional development. CANTRAIN educational offerings are designed to cater to the diverse learning needs and preferences of post-graduated students, clinical research professionals, clinician researcher and the patient partners in clinical research. The CRE contributes to the ongoing clinical research educational program development and implementation and addresses the multifaceted responsibilities inherent in different clinical research settings. The role requires well-developed content writing skills and advanced clinical research skills. General Duties • Develop, create and evaluate the delivery of CANTRAIN educational offerings for all training streams at different settings, including but not limited to academic health research centres, health authorities and private sectors etc.• Adapt, create, and implement CANTRAIN orientation and onboarding programs for new clinical research staff to different clinical research institutions. • Facilitate the onboarding/orientation of new users to the CANTRAIN platform.• Support the implementation of the CANTRAIN learning platform at clinical research sites across the province. Program Development: • Collaborates with CTTP team to curate, adapt and create educational material by adopting the appropriate instructional designs and learning strategies. • Conducts the learning needs assessment for diverse adult learners, including post-graduated students, clinical research professional, clinician researchers and the public, by adopting the assessment tools and methods,• Analyses and interpret the assessment results, identify the gap of learning needs, • Applies the principles of adult learning in all educational offerings and utilizes multiple teaching/learning strategies to address the learning needs in diverse contexts.Program Implementation: • Coordinates, implements and facilitates the delivery of CANTRAIN educational offerings for all training streams at different clinical research sites, • Collaborates with institutional clinical research leadership to identify onboarding/orientation needs of staff and target learning outcomes. • Identifies relevant institutional guidelines, protocols, policy and procedures and adapts CANTRAIN onboarding/orientation materials in collaboration with key stakeholders. • Adapts CANTRAIN onboarding and orientation materials for the local institutional environment.• Coordination and delivery of CANTRAIN curricula across all training streams.• Adapts CANTRAIN learning pathways to maximize uptake and effectiveness in a local institutional context. • Utilizes a variety of knowledge transfer strategies to ensure integration of knowledge into practice.• Provides leadership to promote compliance with standards, guidelines, laws and requirements of regulatory agencies, credentialing agencies and professional organizations. ?• Fosters the development of teaching skills in others as well as support educational needs assessment.• Serves as a resource to all departments in the development of specific processes or training approaches to maintain compliance in the conduct of clinical research.Program Evaluation & Improvement: • Implements a consultation process to meet the needs of internal stakeholders and institutional strategic goals pertaining to clinical research education and training. • Informs the clinical research community or institutions leadership of the effect and impact of CANTRAIN educational offerings with a supportive manner.• Performs program evaluation by adopting both qualitative and quantitative methods to identify the best practices and gaps for program improvement.• Provides feedback to CANTRAIN leadership to surface institutional concerns, needs or requirements for ongoing program improvement, including LMS implementation and training program quality, communication issues.
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Education: Bachelor's Degree Field of Study: Advanced training in adult education or commensurate experience preferred. Work Experience: Experience in teaching/training required, including experience developing, implementing, presenting, and evaluating educational programs, either in a higher education or healthcare setting strongly preferred, > 5 years of clinical research experience within an academic research institute, or a hospital research environment, Experience coordinating or managing clinical research.
● Ability to work with minimal supervision, take initiative and make independent decisions.● Excellent organizational skills with ability to prioritize, coordinate and simultaneously maintain multiple assignments with high level of quality and productivity.● Strong teamwork and attention to detail and accuracy.● Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills.● Knowledge of guidelines and regulations governing clinical research, Certificate demonstrating competency in Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS2): Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans and International Conference on Harmonization – Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP).● Current Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) or Association of Clinical Research Professionals certification (ACRP) is preferred.● Working proficiency in both English and French (where necessary).● Customer service oriented with the ability to work well under pressure.● Strong problem-solving skills.● Ability and willingness to travel within Canada at least once per year to a maximum of 5 business days.
Status: Temporary, full time (35-hour workweek)Pay Scale: $54 327,00 à $100 882,60. Commensurate with education and experience Work Shift: 8:30 am to 4:30 pmWork Site: 5252 de Maisonneuve. Hybrid, 2-days in-person and 3-days teleworking. A cover letter is required with your application. Please include your cover letter and CV in a single PDF document.Why work with us?• 4-week vacation, 5th week after 5 years,• Bank of 12 paid days (personal days and days for sickness or family obligations),• 13 paid statutory holidays,• Modular group insurance plan (including gender affirmation coverage),•Telemedicine,• RREGOP (defined benefit government pension plan), • Training and professional development opportunities,• Child Care Centres,• Corporate Discounts (OPUS + Perkopolis),• Competitive monthly parking rate,• Employee Assistance Program,• Recognition Program,• Flex work options and much more!https://rimuhc.ca/careersTo learn more about our benefits, please visit http://rimuhc.ca/en/compensation-and-benefitsTHIS IS NOT A HOSPITAL POSITION.
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion within its community. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who self-identify as members of racialized groups/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons. We also welcome candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may confidentially contact, research.talent@muhc.mcgill.ca
