Manager, Clinical Research - Ottawa, Canada - CADTH

CADTH

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Status:
Full time, indefinite

Location:
Ottawa, Ontario (hybrid)

Closing date:
March 1, 2024

Salary range:
$110,000 to $137,000 per year

CADTH is Canada's drug and health technology agency. We're a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Ottawa, with a satellite office in Toronto.

We're funded by Canada's federal, provincial, and territorial governments, with the exception of Quebec, to provide independent information and advice to the country's publicly funded health care systems.

Health administrators and policy experts rely on CADTH to inform their decisions about the funding and appropriate use of the drugs, devices, and services used to prevent, diagnose, and treat medical conditions.

CADTH is proud to be a 2024 National Capital Region Top Employer.

This recognition celebrates CADTH's dedication to fostering a workplace environment that nurtures growth, innovation, and IDEA — inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

It reaffirms our ongoing efforts to create an outstanding workplace where our employees thrive and feel valued.

Primary Focus

The Manager, Clinical Research is responsible for managing, leading, and developing a staff of clinical research officers and clinical research assistants who conduct evidence-based analyses, environmental scans, surveys, and other technical reviews in order to deliver health technology assessments and optimal use reports on medical devices and clinical interventions.

In this particular role, the Manager, Clinical Research will have a specific, but not exclusive, focus on genetic and genomic testing.

The Manager is accountable for ensuring that project deliverables are produced and delivered in line with established methods, processes, and quality standards to meet customer expectations and needs.

The Manager should be strategic, innovative, and forward-thinking, with the ability to identify and implement effective process improvements.

On any given day, the Manager, Clinical Research will:

hire staff; provide orientation, technical, and research guidance (e.g., systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses, health technology assessments, horizon scans, rapid reviews, and environmental scans) on assessments of various health technologies; set and monitor performance standards; create training and development plans; and appraise staff performance

- be accountable for the delivery of assigned research projects, including delegating work to the assigned project team, ensuring timelines are met (with the support of project managers and team members), and, for the coordination of project activities, review of and reporting on project status, and progress and sign off on project deliverables
- provide direction on developing and improving mechanisms to ensure the program delivers the greatest value, following best practices for evidence synthesis and delivery of products for medical devices and clinical interventions, such as health technology assessments, optimal use products, rapid reviews, horizon scans, and environmental scans
- ensure that direct reports deliver effective reports that communicate the research findings to meet customers' needs (e.g., clinical reviews, briefing papers)
- guide new internal research staff and external reviewers to ensure the quality of the reports meets corporate requirements
- act as the primary contact between the research teams and the Health Technology Expert Review Panel (HTERP) and lead the development of reports and recommendations through HTERP
- provide expertise on other cross-functional projects in the broader Clinical Interventions team
- collaborate with external content and methods experts and health care agencies as required
- work closely with program development staff throughout the life cycle of the project to ensure project specifications are clear and convey the specifications to the project team
- maintain awareness of, and competence in, quality and methodological standards and contribute as appropriate to "advancing the science"
- work collaboratively with colleagues across the organization to promote the delivery, uptake, and impact of CADTH deliverables.

Is this the right role for you?

The Manager, Clinical Research will likely have:

graduate degree in a health-related discipline (e.g., epidemiology, health technology assessment, public health, or related disciplines), though a PhD is preferred, plus at least 6 to 8 years of relevant experience in the health sector or an equivalent combination of education and experience

- strong leadership and management skills to lead and work with a multidisciplinary team
- expertise in conducting systematic reviews, meta-analyses, or health technology assessments
- an understanding of the basic concepts of health economics and the main types of economic analyses
- a thorough understanding of the Canadian health care systems and knowledge of decision-making processes across federal, provincial, and territorial leve