Job Description

Date Posted: 11/28/2023
Req ID: 35148
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Pharmacy
Department: Faculty of Pharmacy
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00047181

About us:

PRiME Next-Generation Precision Medicine is a community of world-class scientists, engineers and innovators at the University of Toronto and Affiliated Institutions that tackles unmet needs in drug discovery, diagnostics, and disease biology. By leveraging the strengths of its community in pharmaceutical sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and engineering, PRiME builds knowledge towards a shared goal of advancing innovation, training, and fundamental science in next-generation precision medicine, generating the therapeutics, diagnostics and research tools to develop new solutions for unmet needs in human disease. With an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond genomics and mutational profiling, PRiME isan accelerator of new discoveries and novel solutions that will deliver on the promise of Precision Medicine.

Your opportunity:

Under direction of the Director, Strategy & Partnerships, the PRiME Program Coordinator will support PRiME\'s mission to elevate research, empower collaboration and create community. This role is ideal for those who enjoy a diverse range of tasks, possess attention to detail, have initiative, and prefer working in a close-knit compactteam. Your strong interpersonal and organizational skills will enable you to successfully navigate a multifaceted network and foster positive relationships with faculty, granting agencies, partner organizations, and collaborators. Utilizing your resourcefulness and attention to detail, you will support interrelated research projects that involve substantial coordination, contributing to the achievement of our goals and meeting time sensitive grant and strategic deliverables.

The successful applicant will take initiative to coordinate day-to-day activities and advance strategic projects. This role will be responsible for the planning and execution for wide range of PRiME initiatives including annual symposiums, networking and other outreach events, meetings, seminars and workshops. Additionally, this position will entail writing news stories and maintaining and growing PRiME\'s social media presence.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating funding application processes, and keeping well-informed on application policies/procedures and key deadlines
• Utilizing scheduling tools to coordinate meetings, preparing and distributing meeting agendas and materials in advance, taking detailed meeting notes and follow-up on action items
• Coordinating the schedule for program and event calendars
• Developing a detailed plan including logistical details and activities for events and/or programming
• Preparing expense reimbursements
• Collating and organizing data for various reports
• Developing content for marketing and/or promotional materials to promote events and PRiME programs for various internal and external channels, including social media
• Tracking and monitoring outreach activities to measure effectiveness

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor\'s Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum three (3) years of combined experience working in operations, administration or research roles supporting initiatives.
• Experience drafting, editing, formatting information to be included in a variety of written documents, grant applications, website new stories, presentations and preparing reports.
• Experience planning and coordinating small and large events and meetings with high profile attendees.
• Experience in scheduling meetings.
• Experience in taking meeting minutes.
• Experience managing social media platforms and writing for a web audience.
• Experience writing and editing articles for different formats (blog, articles, op-ed, peer-reviewed publications, etc.).
• Experience in preparing, editing, formatting and drafting documents (ex. grant applications, CV, correspondence).
• Excellent editing skills for web and print communications.
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to create and deliver content of a high quality across a range of formats appropriate to various media.
• Strong communications skills (oral and written).
• Detail-oriented, with demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities and projects with conflicting deadlines, while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and quality.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Working knowledge of grants administration and research funding is an asset.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Communicator
• Meticulous
• Organized
• Proactive
• Problem solver
• Self-directed

Notes:

This is a term position for two (2) years.

Closing Date: 12/12/2023, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term. This is a term position for two (2) years.
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 09 -- $65,407 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $83,646. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Research Administration & Teaching

Lived Experience Statement

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Diversity Statement

The University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized persons, women, persons with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening our academic mission.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see .

Accessibility Statement

The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.

The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.

If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact .

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