Job Opportunity: Senior Program Specialist, Health Professional Education & Knowledge Translation

July 4, 2012July 3, 2012 by Michelle Brown

Company: Heart and Stroke Foundation
Position: Sr Program Specialist, Health Professional Education & Knowledge Translation
Reports to: Manager, Health Professional Education
Department: RAHP
Location: Toronto
Status: Full Time, Permanent

Purpose:

This position will bring clinical and program management expertise, as well as knowledge in adult education/ e-learning, to support and enhance the Foundation’s knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) efforts for healthcare professionals.

The Senior Program Specialist will be responsible for content development/program design, maintaining strong partnerships with external and internal stakeholders and the oversight of Health Professional Education KTE deliverables, including Heart and Stroke healthcare professionals web portal (www.heartandstroke.ca/hcp), resources for the healthcare community and KTE programs such as the Heart&Stroke Clinical Update, the Stroke Collaborative, and the Heart&Stroke Hypertension Collaborative.

This position will also assist in the planning and development of future KTE and e-learning initiatives for healthcare professionals.

Job Opportunity: Regional KE Lead in London

July 4, 2012June 29, 2012 by Heather Bullock

Program Consultant (Regional Knowledge Exchange Lead)

Regional Services, West Region, London

Position Description:

Reporting to the Regional Manager, the Knowledge Exchange Lead will play an important connective role on a local level. You will be an integral member of the EENet team. Reporting to the Regional Manager and taking strategic direction from the Manager of Knowledge Exchange in the Health Systems and Health Equity Research (HSHER) Group, this position will be responsible for a variety of knowledge exchange activities associated with EENet. As the local ‘face’ of EENet you will act as a two-way conduit for information sharing between EENet and local communities. The Regional KE Lead will be specifically charged with building and fostering linkages between community, hospital, university research centres, LHINs, other local and regional planning bodies and other community mental health and addictions stakeholders for knowledge exchange purposes. Your duties and responsibilities also include acting as local connectors of knowledge producers and knowledge users (e.g. planning tables, LHINs, community MH&A programs, hospital MH&A programs, Human Services and Justice Committees, public health bodies, etc); building and fostering relationships with researchers within Universities and Academic Health Science Centres; and enhancing community capacity to engage in research and KE activities and use evidence for decision-making; feeding research activity and promising practices back to EENet’s management and resource centre; developing KE products and organizing KE activities for the region and the broader network; and facilitating access to appropriate and tailored evidence in support of local and regional service collaboratives. You will support a workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable and regulatory requirements. The position is located 100 Collip Circle in London and will involve travel within Western Ontario.

Executive Director (Senior Health Knowledge Network)

October 23, 2012June 27, 2012 by Deirdre Luesby

Program:	Bruyère Research Institute
	Position Type:	Part-Time, 2 days/week until March 31, 2013 with the possibility of extension
	Salary Scale:	We offer flexible work arrangement options and $375 per diem based on a 7.5 hour work day
	Competition Closing Date:	7/4/2012 9:00 AM

The Bruyère Research Institute (BRI) is a Bruyère Continuing Care and University of Ottawa partnership. BRI is seeking an Executive Director (ED) to work with the Seniors Health Knowledge Network (N³) – formerly known as the SHRTN Collaborative. This opportunity will involve a 2 day/week level of effort. The contract will be until March 31, 2013 with possibility of extension pending funding approval for next fiscal year.

Project Manager, Knowledge Translation and Exchange Strategy Design

June 25, 2012June 21, 2012 by Erika Steibelt

Cancer Care Ontario

POSITION SUMMARY/RÉSUMÉ DU POSTE:

Our vision

To build the best health systems in the world

To deliver on our vision at Cancer Care Ontario, we believe that by sharing and supporting knowledge of the approaches that drive quality, accountability, innovation, and value we will accelerate health-system improvements.

The Ontario Cancer Plan identifies knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) as a dynamic process that involves getting the right knowledge into the hand of the right people to help drive quality, accountability and innovation. KTE is critical to advancing CCO’s quality agenda for the cancer system and represents a significant component of our activity. We are seeking to better coordinate our efforts, ensure best-practice methods are consistently applied, be innovative in our use of technology and maximize our value-for-effort and investment.

We are seeking an individual with a passion for building strategic communication frameworks and the ability to unifying a diverse group of stakeholders under a common set of goals and outcomes. This role provides a unique opportunity to shape the future of our knowledge sharing framework. Candidates should possess program development experience and an enthusiasm for creating best in class strategies across audiences and through innovative communications vehicles.

Job Opportunity: Regional KE Lead in Penetanguishene

June 19, 2012June 18, 2012 by Heather Bullock

Program Consultant (Regional Knowledge Exchange Lead)

Program/Department: Regional Services, North Region, Penetanguishene

Position Description:

Reporting to the Regional Manager, the Knowledge Exchange Lead will play an important connective role on a local level. You will be an integral member of the EENet team and take strategic direction from the Director of Knowledge Exchange in the Provincial System Support Program. This position will be responsible for a variety of knowledge exchange activities associated with EENet.

Research Facilitator, Knowledge Services, Public Health Ontario

June 13, 2012June 9, 2012 by Melanie Barwick

June OHPE Bulletin

Toronto, Ontario
Deadline June 22, 2012

Title: Research Facilitator
Department: Knowledge Services
Term: Full-Time Permanent
Location: 480 University Avenue, Toronto

Organizational Overview:

Public Health Ontario (“PHO”) is an arm’s-length government agency dedicated to protecting and promoting the health of all Ontarians and reducing inequities in health. As a hub organization, PHO links public health practitioners, front-line health workers and researchers to the best scientific intelligence and knowledge from around the world. PHO provides expert scientific and technical support relating to infection prevention and control; surveillance and epidemiology; health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention; environmental and occupational health; health emergency preparedness; and public health laboratory services to support health providers, the public health system and partner ministries in making informed decisions and taking informed action to improve the health and security of Ontarians.

Job Opportunity with College of Physicians and Surgeons

June 1, 2012 by Rhoda Reardon

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario works with physcians in practice to promote and support life-long learning. We are currently seeking a uniquely skilled individual to join our team in the Quality Management Division as: Education Liasion. This person will work with internal and external stakeholders to: create educational resources to meet identified physician learning needs; …

Job Opportunity: Division Head, Knowledge Exchange, Sax Institute (Sydney)

October 23, 2012May 29, 2012 by Scott Mitchell

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.

Job Opportunity: Acting Director, Programs and Knowledge Mobilization, CIFAR

October 23, 2012May 29, 2012 by Scott Mitchell

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.

Job Opportunity with the Rick Hansen Institute (RHI)

October 23, 2012May 25, 2012 by Amir Rasheed

KT Specialist POSTING Final May 2012 The Rick Hansen Institute has a vacancy for the position of Knowledge Translation Specialist. For a complete description of this opportunity and application details, please visit RHI’s website (competition #2012-02): http://rickhanseninstitute.org/en/career-opportunities (Follow Link Above) Brief Overview The RHI KT Specialist will serve to accelerate the transfer of knowledge by …