Acting Manager of Research Planning

UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care. UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine. UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

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Position Summary
The Acting Manager of Research Planning is accountable for planning, implementing, and leading the development of collaborative research projects with internal and external partners, tracking project outcomes, and driving productivity. This individual will work across several programs including the Phase I Drug Development Program (DDP1), the Cancer Genomics Program (CGP) and the Tumor Immunotherapy Program (TIP). Under the leadership of the DDP1 Director and in collaboration with other Program leaders, the Acting Research Alliance and Planning Manager will work to advance the synergistic precision medicine research priorities between these three key programs, and network with external partners to plan and execute collaborative research projects. This position will serve as a key project manager, representing the Princess Margaret in various external alliance networks.

One such alliance network is the Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network (MOHCCN), a national network of leading cancer centres that promotes collaborative research and accelerates the discovery of new innovations by linking and sharing multi-omic molecular and clinical data across Canada. This network coalesces individual precision medicine projects throughout Canada, creating a powerful, consolidated, and comprehensively annotated dataset. The Acting Research Alliance and Planning Manager is an integral part of the MOHCCN Princess Margaret Cancer Consortium (PM2C) team that works in conjunction with other members of the MOHCCN to advance this effort.

Duties

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

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