University of Ottawa’s Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, is seeking a bilingual Knowledge Mobilization Advisor for a temporary (24-month) contract. Applications close on May 8, 2022.
Salary (Grade: NR8)
Hiring salary range: $80,066-$101,135
The University of Ottawa—A crossroads of cultures and ideas
The University of Ottawa is home to a dynamic community of over 50,000 students, faculty and staff, who live, work and study in both French and English. Our campus is a crossroad of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas. We believe in the power of representation, and that increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff supports this objective. Our goal is to provide students with the best possible learning experience, in an environment that reflects the diversity of its people, their ideas, and their identities.
We are one of Canada’s top 10 research universities—our professors and researchers explore new approaches to today’s challenges. One of a handful of Canadian universities ranked among the top 200 in the world, we attract exceptional thinkers and welcome diverse perspectives from across the globe. Our employees come together around the shared purpose of constant improvement, personal development, service excellence, teamwork and a passion for learning with a desire to make uOttawa and the world a better place. Everyone’s contributions are valued, we all play a part in making uOttawa a world-class institution. Most importantly, we make it possible for you to achieve your full potential. Because at uOttawa, you belong!
Position purpose:
- Provides expertise and support for knowledge mobilization and social innovation in order to enhance the university’s reputation as a leader in research.
- Identifies and facilitates activities that provide uOttawa researchers in social sciences, humanities, health, education, business and law fields with tools that develop skills to increase the impact of their research; to engage users in the research process; and to create partnerships and linkages in areas of mutual interest with external partners in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
- Overall, the position is critical to maximize the impact of uOttawa research by promoting its uptake into policy, practice and services in areas of societal interest, such as mental health, social justice, community development.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:
- Act as a key resource for the development and implementation of the uOttawa institutional knowledge mobilization (KMb) strategy. Identify needs, develop plans; monitor progress; and conduct evaluations.
- Provide expert advice to the Associate Vice-President, Research Promotion and Development, Vice Deans (Research), Professors, faculty research administrators on KMb/Knowledge Translation strategies and approaches.
- Develop and manage knowledge mobilization initiatives and activities that build researcher skills in KMb/Knowledge Translation, including offering training and promoting methods, such as engaged scholarship, and participative research, that engage research users in the research process and in disseminating research results. Develop and maintain online KMb resources and coordinate a decentralized model for providing hands-on assistance to faculty administrators and professors.
What you will bring:
- A graduate level degree in a relevant field, preferably with a strong research or knowledge mobilization/knowledge translation background, or equivalent experience.
- Extensive knowledge of the academic social sciences, humanities, health, education, business and law research environment and its ecosystem (funders, partners, stakeholders).
- A minimum of 7 years of related experience in a research-intensive environment.
- Experience in identifying and applying effective knowledge mobilization/knowledge translation practices for social innovation, including the development of partnerships with a range of stakeholders both in the co-creation of research and as research users.
- Ability to liaise with various groups of administrators, researchers and stakeholders to bring together diverse interests to develop KMb services and events and promote accomplishments.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize and triage work based upon sound decision-making principles and organizational goals and objectives.
- Analytical skills to interpret and explain performance metrics.
- Strong software application skills, including but not limited to, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) information retrieval; information and database management.
- Bilingualism – French and English (oral and written).
Key Competencies at uOttawa
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
- Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
- Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
- Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
- Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.
The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We are at our best when everyone has a seat at the table, and when we are made to feel like we belong. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact [email protected] to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.