Date Posted: 12/03/2024
Req ID: 40937
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Acceleration Consortium
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00057060
About us:
The Faculty of Arts & Science is the heart of Canada’s leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world. The strength of Arts & Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs.
The Acceleration Consortium (AC) at the University of Toronto (U of T) is leading a transformative shift in scientific discovery that will accelerate technology development and commercialization. The AC is a global community of academia, industry, and government that leverages the power of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, materials sciences, and high-throughput chemistry to create self-driving laboratories (SDLs), also called materials acceleration platforms (MAPs). AC Staff Scientists will advance the infield of AI-driven autonomous discovery and develop the materials and molecules required to address society’s largest challenges, such as climate change, water pollution, and future pandemics.
Your opportunity:
Reporting to the Director, Strategy & Partnerships and working closely with Acceleration Consortium’s communications and training staff, the Knowledge Mobilization Lead will support the knowledge mobilization efforts of the Acceleration Consortium by developing unique programs to describe, communicate, and amplify the Acceleration Consortium’s training and research efforts. In this role you will support research translation through the facilitation of partnerships, unique events, training programs, project development, policy briefs, and grant writing.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Drafting documents for knowledge translation purposes
- Writing project-specific proposals and briefings
- Fostering and maintaining positive relations with stakeholders to support knowledge translation activities
- Editing funding application content
- Developing strategic plans to determine the unit's programs and activities
- Developing content for instructional workshops
- Facilitating educational workshops and seminars
Essential Qualifications:
- Master's Degree or an acceptable combination of equivalent education and experience.
- Minimum five years experience in an academic and research environment, leading knowledge mobilization and translation, and supporting research funding initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience with project design and execution.
- Experience creating and managing knowledge mobilization networks.
- Experience developing and maintaining relationships across multiple stakeholder groups, including the private sector, public sector, civil society and universities.
- Experience with KM approaches such as visual thinking, infographics, social media, video clips, plain language communication, experiential stories and/or photo-voice essays.
- Experience creating, organizing and hosting in-person and virtual events for knowledge translation, including workshops.
- Experience producing network analysis, document analysis and/or systematic reviews.
- Experience drafting grant applications.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, including strong proof-reading and editing skills.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to deal effectively with multiple priorities and projects with conflicting deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and high quality.
- Ability to exercise initiative, tact, discretion, problem-solving skills and to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Ability to assess processes and procedures, utilize critical thinking and synthesize information from multiple sources.
- Ability to work both independently as well as collaboratively within cross-disciplinary teams in a multi-disciplinary multi-province team of senior decision-makers.
Assets (Nonessential):
- Experience working with Indigenous peoples, partners, or organizations.
To be successful in this role you will be:
- Diplomatic
- Multi-tasker
- Resourceful
- Team player
Closing Date: 12/11/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Grant - Term
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone: USW Pay Band 15 -- $95,627. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $122,290.
Lived Experience Statement:
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.
Diversity Statement:
The University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community.
Accessibility Statement:
The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members.
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