Transdisciplinary Research Coordinator, Faculty of Arts

We wish to take this chance to acknowledge the standard territories of the individuals of the Treaty 7 area in Southern Alberta. The Metropolis of Calgary can be residence to Métis Nation of Alberta, Districts 5 and 6.

Place Overview

The Dean’s Workplace within the School of Arts is presently searching for a Full-time Restricted Time period Transdisciplinary Analysis Coordinator for roughly 12 months.

This place studies to Senior Analysis Advissor. The Coordinator performs a necessary position in selling transdisciplinary scholarship each on and off campus, in addition to fostering new collaborations throughout disciplines inside the School of Arts and on the College of Calgary. The Coordinator will work intently with workers supporting Transdisciplinary Scholarship within the VPR’s Workplace (particularly the coordinators for areas of Digital Worlds, Cities and Societies, Democracy and Change), Analysis Companies Workplace, and different items on campus.

The Coordinator will work common enterprise hours, with the occasional exception for occasions held outdoors of enterprise hours. A mix of earn a living from home and on campus work is feasible, although on campus work and in-person conferences shall be required. The place is a part of the AUPE Bargaining Unit.

Place Description

Abstract of Key Obligations (job capabilities embrace however usually are not restricted to):

• Search out and establish funding alternatives and facilitate submission of proposals for transdisciplinary work.
• Help candidates with assembly coordination, monitoring of deadlines, offering administrative companies in managing UCalgary procedures for submission, offering steering on software pointers, and so forth.
• Establish transdisciplinary funding alternatives, talk alternatives with stakeholders, and convey collectively students concerned about taking part within the alternative.
• Put together annual studies on the effectiveness of transdisciplinary actions throughout campus, together with the monitoring of metrics.
• Keep data and document of key School of Arts and College researchers within the areas of focus, and different stakeholders wanted to advance the targets of transdisciplinary scholarship.
• Develop assets to advertise transdisciplinary scholarship with each inside and exterior stakeholders.
• Develop and preserve wonderful relationships with each inside and exterior stakeholders.
• Liaise with on-campus items, together with VP Analysis Workplace, Analysis Companies Workplace items, Colleges (notably Analysis Facilitators), and others as required to assist establish and provoke alternatives for transdisciplinary scholarship and analysis.
• Coordinate occasions and networking alternatives that assist the engagement of students and the development of transdisciplinary actions.
• Talk independently with stakeholders to facilitate relationship constructing and promote transdisciplinary alternatives throughout campus.
• Work intently with the Analysis and Communications groups on to stakeholders by offering high-quality content material, and growing displays, studies, and different communications supplies as required.
• Handle knowledge assortment and evaluation of undertaking outcomes.
• Observe measures of success (comparable to occasion attendance, new connections and collaborations, transdisciplinary functions submitted, publications ensuing from transdisciplinary work, profitable funding functions, and so forth.) and report these measures to indicate the effectiveness of actions undertaken.

{Qualifications} / Necessities:

• A post-secondary graduate diploma is required, mixed with 5-7years of expertise in a college analysis setting and expertise with social science and humanities methodologies.
• Expertise/familiarity with on-line platforms, digital applied sciences, and synthetic intelligence, in addition to the usage of media as analysis instruments is required.
• Confirmed capability to assist relationship constructing.
• Wonderful communication expertise, each written and verbal, together with the power to speak with all kinds of stakeholders (workers, college students, school, postdoctoral students, group members, and so forth.).
• Wonderful interpersonal expertise to assist facilitate constructing new collaborations between students (school, workers, postdoctoral students, and college students) to successfully promote transdisciplinary analysis on and off campus.
• Profitable observe document of expertise within the implementation of initiatives and initiatives.
• Expertise in efficiently negotiating options to advanced issues and balancing competing pursuits.
• Extremely developed organizational and time administration expertise.
• Means to work in groups in addition to independently.
• Means to work in a fast-paced and dynamic work setting and to reveal a excessive degree of tact, diplomacy, and discretion.
• Sound decision-making capabilities required.

Software Deadline: November 30, 2023.

We wish to thank all candidates upfront for submitting their resumes. Please word, solely these candidates chosen to proceed on by means of the choice course of shall be contacted.

Further Info

This place is a part of the AUPE bargaining unit, and falls beneath the Specialist/Advisor Job Household, Section 3.

To search out out extra about administration and workers alternatives on the College of Calgary and all we now have to supply, view our Administration and Workers Careers web site . For extra data go to Careers within the School of Arts .

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Concerning the College of Calgary

UCalgary is Canada’s entrepreneurial college, situated in Canada’s most enterprising metropolis. It’s a high analysis college and one of many highest-ranked universities of its age. Based in 1966, its 36,000 college students expertise an modern studying setting, made wealthy by analysis, hands-on experiences and entrepreneurial pondering. It’s Canada’s chief within the creation of start-ups . Begin one thing at present on the College of Calgary. For extra data, go to ucalgary.ca .

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