Transdisciplinary Research Coordinator, Faculty of Arts

We wish to take this chance to acknowledge the normal territories of the folks 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 College of Arts is at present in search of a Full-time Restricted Time period Transdisciplinary Analysis Coordinator for roughly 12 months.

This place experiences to Senior Analysis Advissor. The Coordinator performs an important function in selling transdisciplinary scholarship each on and off campus, in addition to fostering new collaborations throughout disciplines throughout the College of Arts and on the College of Calgary. The Coordinator will work carefully with employees supporting Transdisciplinary Scholarship within the VPR’s Workplace (particularly the coordinators for areas of Digital Worlds, Cities and Societies, Democracy and Change), Analysis Providers Workplace, and different models on campus.

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

Place Description

Abstract of Key Tasks (job features 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.
• Determine transdisciplinary funding alternatives, talk alternatives with stakeholders, and produce collectively students involved in taking part within the alternative.
• Put together annual experiences on the effectiveness of transdisciplinary actions throughout campus, together with the monitoring of metrics.
• Keep data and document of key College of Arts and College researchers within the areas of focus, and different stakeholders wanted to advance the targets of transdisciplinary scholarship.
• Develop sources to advertise transdisciplinary scholarship with each inner and exterior stakeholders.
• Develop and keep glorious relationships with each inner and exterior stakeholders.
• Liaise with on-campus models, together with VP Analysis Workplace, Analysis Providers Workplace models, Colleges (significantly Analysis Facilitators), and others as required to assist establish and provoke alternatives for transdisciplinary scholarship and analysis.
• Coordinate occasions and networking alternatives that help 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 carefully with the Analysis and Communications groups on to stakeholders by offering high-quality content material, and creating displays, experiences, and different communications supplies as required.
• Handle information assortment and evaluation of undertaking outcomes.
• Monitor measures of success (reminiscent of occasion attendance, new connections and collaborations, transdisciplinary purposes submitted, publications ensuing from transdisciplinary work, profitable funding purposes, 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 using media as analysis instruments is required.
• Confirmed capability to help relationship constructing.
• Wonderful communication abilities, each written and verbal, together with the flexibility to speak with all kinds of stakeholders (employees, college students, school, postdoctoral students, neighborhood members, and so forth.).
• Wonderful interpersonal abilities to assist facilitate constructing new collaborations between students (school, employees, 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 complicated issues and balancing competing pursuits.
• Extremely developed organizational and time administration abilities.
• Skill to work in groups in addition to independently.
• Skill to work in a fast-paced and dynamic work surroundings and to reveal a excessive degree of tact, diplomacy, and discretion.
• Sound decision-making capabilities required.

Utility Deadline: November 30, 2023.

We wish to thank all candidates upfront for submitting their resumes. Please be aware, solely these candidates chosen to proceed on by way of the choice course of will probably be contacted.

Further Info

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

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In regards to the College of Calgary

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