Scott Mitchell

Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services is a Community Health Centre that aims to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities. We do this by facilitating access to services and addressing systemic inequities. The Centre envisions a future in which diverse individuals, families and communities can achieve health with dignity.

Access Alliance is a recognized leader in community based research on social determinants of newcomer health. Our research team takes a leadership role in generating and using evidence to catalyze progressive policy and service solutions to promote health of newcomer groups in Canada.

We are looking for a dynamic, creative and energetic team player, with strong research knowledge and proven knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) skills to become part of our Research Team as Research Coordinator, Knowledge Exchange. This is a full-time contract position.

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The Head, Division of Knowledge Exchange is one of three senior executive positions within the Sax Institute, reporting to the CEO and responsible for the Institute’s programs in knowledge and research brokering, research reviews, and exchange between researchers and policy agencies. The Sax Institute has a national and international reputation in knowledge exchange for health and the Division Head will lead an experienced team that already has established strong links to more than 30 policy agencies.

The Head will be responsible for developing and implementing the Sax Institute’s programs in knowledge exchange to ensure that the Sax Institute stays at the forefront of developments in increasing the use of evidence from research in policy and the conduct of research relevant to policy.

The appointee will be based at the Sax Institute, Haymarket, Sydney.

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The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) is a private, not-for-profit organization that brings together cutting-edge researchers from across Canada and around the world to work collaboratively on advanced research projects. We enable some of the world’s brightest minds from a wide range of disciplines to collaborate in answering complex questions concerning society, technology, and the very nature of humanity and the universe. The primary responsibility of each employee is to contribute to the success of the organization as it carries out its mandate. Within this context, outlined below is the core purpose of the position and, as an illustration, examples of major responsibilities.

This is an interim position for one year, starting August 13, 2012. Applications will be reviewed starting no later than the week of June 18, 2012. Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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