Postdoctoral project manager leading the University of Alberta’s large-scale Autistic writing research network. Coordinating multisite recruitment, mixed-methods protocols, data management, and scholarly outputs.
Responsibilities
Lead day-to-day implementation of ARWN Phase 1 and ensure project milestones, deliverables, and timelines are met.
Coordinate participant recruitment, screening, scheduling, retention, and communication across Canada and the United States.
Oversee delivery of the five-session study protocol, including standardized assessments, questionnaires, interviews, and writing activities.
Develop and maintain project-management systems, protocol manuals, recruitment records, training materials, meeting documentation, and progress reports.
Coordinate communication and workflow across investigators, partner institutions, community co-researchers, research assistants, participants, and families.
Organize and facilitate research-team, working-group, and community-partner meetings.
Monitor protocol fidelity, identify operational challenges, and develop accessible, feasible solutions with the team.
Ensure activities reflect neurodiversity-affirming, participatory, and accessible research practices.
Coordinate research ethics submissions, renewals, amendments, and reporting across participating institutions.
Support research assistants with protocol administration, interviews, data management, and neurodiversity-affirming practices.
Oversee consent and assent procedures, confidentiality protections, secure data management, and research documentation.
Support data entry, coding, cleaning, quality assurance, and analysis preparation.
Ensure quantitative, qualitative, interview, assessment, and writing data are accurately documented.
Promote responsible, transparent, community-informed data interpretation and dissemination.
Support junior researchers with their research projects.
Collaborate with Autistic co-researchers to keep interpretations grounded in participants’ perspectives.
Lead or support conference abstracts, presentations, and written manuscripts.
Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
Requirements
PhD in Education, Psychology, Communication Sciences, or a related discipline, normally completed within the past five years; eligibility periods may be extended for career interruptions.
Advanced expertise in qualitative and/or quantitative data analysis.
Qualitative analysis experience including reflexive thematic analysis, grounded theory, narrative analysis, or related methods.
Quantitative analysis experience including variable- and person-centred approaches, potentially including structural equation modelling or related methods.
Experience using relevant research/project management software such as Slack, Otter.ai, Zoom, Qualtrics, Google Workspace Apps, OneDrive, Microsoft programs, R, Mplus, SPSS, Dedoose, NVivo, or equivalent platforms.
Strong record of scholarly productivity demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, reports, or other research outputs pertaining to autism.
Excellent written, oral, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage competing deadlines, and lead collaboratively within a large interdisciplinary team.
Demonstrated commitment to respectful, accessible, neurodiversity-affirming research and comfort working alongside Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent staff, students, community partners, and participants.
Submit a CV/resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references from prior supervisors.
Benefits
This position is not eligible for benefits.
Opportunities to publish as first author.
Mentorship from the ARWN Phase 1 research team.
Meaningful training opportunities for junior researchers, including Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent team members.
Accommodations available at any stage of the application, interview process, and throughout employment.
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