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Job Posting

Project Coordinator/Researcher/AHPRC

 

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, Dalhousie University

Atlantic Networks for Prevention Research

Communities & Health Research Unit

 

Atlantic Networks for Prevention Research (www.anpr.dal.ca ) is a six-year CIHR-funded project aimed at building research capacity in population and public health, improving knowledge translation, and enhancing understanding of health impacts of social and physical environments (communities, workplaces, and schools).

 

Project Coordinator/Researcher required for 1 yr, full-time contract, starting May, 2006, for CIHR-funded Project: "Scoping Review & Research Synthesis of Community-level Interventions that Modify Social Environments & Influence Health" 

 

Responsibilities:

The Project Coordinator/Researcher will work with a dynamic team of five researchers and seven community collaborators on a scoping review of community-level social interventions to improve health.  Responsibilities will include coordinating the work of the entire team, conducting web-based literature searches and  gray literature searches for community-level interventions, working with the team to design criteria for inclusion of interventions in the review, interpreting and synthesizing information on interventions, writing interim and final reports, making PowerPoint presentations, and developing and implementing a knowledge translation plan.

 

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:

 

·   Masters Degree and 2-5 years work experience required; Ph.D. Preferred; Post-doctoral students welcome

·   Excellent inter-personal skills and demonstrated skills in project coordination

·   Self-starter, able to work independently

·   Excellent writing skills for both research and lay audiences

·   Research background, preferably in both qualitative and quantitative research

·   Ability to interpret and synthesize complex data

·   Excellent computer skills and experience with web-based searches and reference management software

 

A more detailed job description is available at: http://www.ahprc.dal.ca/about/jobs.asp 

 

Please send cover letter, resume and 3 references by May 15 to:

 

Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre

Suite 209, City Centre Atlantic

1535Dresden Row

Halifax, NS B3J 3T1

Attention: Sally Walker, Ph.D.,

Coordinator, ANPR


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