Research Quality Associate - Partnership Security & Compliance

The University Health Network, where “above all else the needs of patients come first”, encompasses Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the Michener Institute of Education. The breadth of research, the complexity of the cases treated, and the magnitude of its educational enterprise has made UHN a national and international resource for patient care, research and education. With a long tradition of ground breaking firsts and a purpose of “Transforming lives and communities through excellence in care, discovery and learning”, the University Health Network (UHN), Canada’s largest research teaching hospital, brings together over 16,000 employees, more than 1,200 physicians, 8,000+ students, and many volunteers. UHN is a caring, creative place where amazing people are amazing the world.

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, promoting leading practices in quality, risk management and responsible conduct of research.

UHN and its researchers are involved in national and international research partnerships and collaborations that facilitate discovery and innovation, increase participant diversity and improve the validity and applicability of study findings. Disclosure and management of these relationships is critical to UHN’s ability to conduct high quality research. The Research Quality Associate will support initiatives that ensure that these relationships are disclosed and reported in compliance with regulatory and funder requirements, including assessing relationships for relatedness to funded research.

Duties:

The primary responsibility of the Research Quality Associate is to support UHN’s responsible conduct of research program, with a focus on relationship management and regulatory compliance. This includes:

Assessing and monitoring of the internal and external research environment, governing legislation, guidelines and regulations to facilitate identification of potential risks or quality gaps

Assisting in the coordination and support of risk management activities, collaborating with risk owners to identify, assess, evaluate, plan and monitor risk mitigation strategies

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

Internal and external environmental scans and evaluation of research programs, services, systems, tools

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