Knowledge Translation Coordinator - Vancouver, Canada - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level B

Job Title

Knowledge Translation Coordinator

Department

HDRN Communications | Population Data BC | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range

$5, $7,878.17 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

March 9, 2023

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

Mar 31, 2025

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

Population Data BC is a multi-university, data and education resource facilitating interdisciplinary research on the determinants of human health, well-being and development.

We support secure research access to individual-level, de-identified longitudinal data on 4.8 million residents living in British Columbia, linking data across various sectors such as health, education, early childhood development, workplace and the environment.

Population Data BC (PopData) also offers a professional specialization certificate in Population Health Data Analysis, training researchers across Canada and around the world.

Key objectives of Population Data BC are to:1) Make more data sets available for research

2) Facilitate cross-linkages among the data sets in a privacy sensitive manner

3) Provide strategic leadership to ensure streamlined researcher access to these data

4) Provide educational and other opportunities to ensure full and best use of those data

The Knowledge Translation Coordinator is responsible for developing and executing knowledge translation activities for Population Data BC to support educational and other opportunities to ensure full and best use of linked, population-based data.

The Knowledge Translation Coordinator is a skilled communicator with a passion for health research, an ability to transform data into compelling narratives, and a talent for creating accessible and informative tools to streamline workflows.

The incumbent works with various PopData partners such as Health Data Research Network Canada, the UBC Faculty of Medicine and UBC Department of Medicine (Data Science and Health (DASH) Initiative), various data providers and the broader research community to develop reference resources for researchers.

The KT Coordinator designs and executes designated KT projects to support both overall organizational and partner/stakeholder goals, including project/report design/layout, writing, creation of audiovisuals, graphic visual design, event KT, and may also provide design and implementation of communications tasks as needed.

Organizational Status

Population Data BC is based at the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), which is in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.

We are a key member of the International Population Data Linkage Network, through which we have promoted international research collaborations and fostered working groups on privacy and access to data.

The Knowledge Translation Coordinator will work with relevant initiatives such as Health Data Research Network Canada and UBC DASH. HDRN Canada is a research-enabling, distributed network that supports multi-regional, person-focused research. The network comprises every national, provincial, and territorial centre that holds population-wide health data.

The UBC Data Science and Health (DASH) Initiative was founded by the UBC Department of Medicine in 2020, led by Dr.

Anita Palepu, the Department Head and Dr. Teresa Tsang, the Associate Head of Research. DASH supports researchers to identify, access, and analyze health data in BC.

Since its inception, DASH has evolved into the central hub connecting local and international researchers, health authorities, and industry working to develop a harmonized data ecosystem in BC and leverage big health datasets to accelerate clinical innovation.

The Knowledge Translation Coordinator reports to the Strategic Communications Manager.

As a main contributor to one of Population Data BC's key objectives, the incumbent is expected to liaise and work with relevant staff, faculty, and researchers at UBC DASH and Population Data BC's key partners:
Health Data Linkage Network Canada (HDRN), UBC Faculty of Medicine and