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About the role

  • Program Coordinator managing research projects and lab operations in the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the University of Alberta. Role involves budgeting, team leadership, and project coordination.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate research projects under the direction of the Principal Investigator, including timelines, deliverables, reporting, and project milestones.
  • Support research planning, including research questions, data collection methods, ethics activities, participant recruitment, and data collection.
  • Prepare, edit, and submit grant applications, reports, academic papers, and other research materials.
  • Monitor funded project requirements and ensure reporting is completed accurately and on time.
  • Help connect multiple lab activities into a cohesive strategy that supports long-term sustainability.
  • Supervise and assign work to research staff, students, interns, co-op students, and volunteers.
  • Support recruitment, onboarding, training, performance feedback, and professional development for lab members.
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe lab culture.
  • Work with HR partners on hiring, employee relations, performance, and compliance matters when needed.
  • Liaise with HR and supervise staff, students, and trainees within a unionized environment.
  • Manage day-to-day lab operations, including meetings, events, travel, records, equipment, workspace, and administrative processes.
  • Monitor lab and project budgets, including expenses, staff salary allocations, purchasing, P-Card reporting, and financial transactions.
  • Act as a key point of contact for the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab.
  • Respond to inquiries from students, staff, faculty, community partners, health system partners, and other external collaborators.
  • Support lab safety compliance, including hazard assessments, safety information, training, signage, and access.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in science, health care, public health, rehabilitation, or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in an academic research, health research, or related research environment.
  • Experience managing budgets of $1 million or higher.
  • Proficiency with common office, collaboration, and data management tools, such as Microsoft Office, Google applications, PeopleSoft, or REDCap.
  • Experience supervising, mentoring, assigning work, or coordinating the work of staff, students, trainees, interns, or volunteers.
  • Experience coordinating research projects, including timelines, deliverables, reporting, ethics activities, participant recruitment, data collection, or knowledge translation.
  • Experience supporting research outputs such as grant applications, reports, academic publications, presentations, literature reviews, or similar written materials.
  • Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
  • Strong written, verbal, editing, and knowledge translation skills, with the ability to adapt communication for different audiences.
  • Ability to build positive working relationships with academic, community, health system, and internal university partners.
  • Demonstrated judgment, initiative, adaptability, and ability to work independently in a changing environment.
  • Patient-oriented research training, such as AbSPORU or similar.
  • Experience with community engagement, rural health care, disability communities, or community-based research.
  • Experience with qualitative research methods, including data collection and analysis.
  • Experience managing research budgets, financial processes, purchasing, expenses, or project funding.
  • Experience organizing or presenting at workshops, seminars, conferences, lab tours, or community-facing events.
  • Experience contributing to inclusive, psychologically safe, and collaborative team environments.

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits package

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$75,304 - CA$104,224 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridEdmontonCanada

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