Research Quality & Compliance Specialist

• Job Title: Research Quality & Compliance Specialist
• Status: Continuing, permanent
• Location: Kingston, On (On-site)
• Closing Date: Nov 27, 2024
• Website link for posting: https://clients.njoyn.com/CL4/xweb/xweb.asp?clid=74827&page=jobdetails&jobid=J1024-0198&BRID=EX392851&SBDID=1&LANG=1
• Number of Openings: 1
• Queen’s University is the Canadian research intensive university with a transformative student learning experience. Here the employment experience is as diverse as it is interesting. We have opportunities in multiple areas of globally recognized research, faculty administration, engineering & construction, athletics & recreation, power generation, corporate shared services, and many more.

A Brief Overview
This position oversees the development, coordination, and administration of the Quality Assurance Review program. This position develops and facilitates an education and training program to ensure compliance with external guidelines, policies, and regulations that govern human participant research. This position acts as a compliance liaison and resource for the Queen’s research community, the Research Ethics Office, the Research Ethics Boards, and the affiliated research hospitals. This position oversees the administration of the Quality Assurance Monitoring programs. This position develops and facilitates training of new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that are aligned with external ethics guidelines, policies, and regulations. This position delivers presentations to educate on ethical guidelines and ensures continuous quality assurance.

What you will do
• Oversees the overall administration of the Quality Assurance Monitoring program.
• Develops and maintains compliance processes.
• Ensures SOPs are consistent with applicable external ethics guidelines, policies, and regulations.
• Develops and facilitates training of new SOPs.
• Develops supporting documentation such as website content.
• Works with ethic committees to improve operations and increase compliance.
• Ensures that the Research Ethics Boards (REBs) practices are consistent with applicable external ethics guidelines, policies, and regulations.
• Delivers presentations to educate and ensure continuous quality improvement.
• Develops and promotes procedures and tools to support efficiency and compliance.
• Conducts mock audits to ensure research being conducted follows protocol and local regulations and international ethical guidelines.
• Verifies compliance and consistency with internal standards and national regulations.
• Assembles annual reports for budgeting.
• Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

Required Education
• Master’s Degree or equivalent. In addition, requires a professional designation, certification, or other qualification, or on-going learning to remain ahead of changes in technology or emerging fields.
Required Experience
• More than 5 years of experience.
Consideration may be given to an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Job Knowledge and Requirements
• Knowledge of concepts and principles in a specialist field that is typically acquired through a combination of advanced professional or academic qualifications and/or significant work experience.
• Provide expert advice, guidance and consultation on highly complex issues and/or where the outcome may be contentious.
• Interaction with others requires highly developed interpersonal skills to effectively persuade, negotiate, counsel, and/or consult.
• Adapt messages to meet the different needs of different audiences.
• Prioritize and distribute work to deliver objectives on time and to the highest standard.
• Identify in advance when the intended results may not be achieved and develops a plan to address the gaps.
• Lead team and project meetings and develop team/unit and departmental project plans.
• Lead procedural or technological change within a unit or across broader university functions.
• Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work processes.
• Anticipate complex challenges to ensure activities are completed on time.
• Effectively leverage relevant data as input to making decisions.
• Appropriately assess risks before making a decision.
• Comprehensive understanding of what sexual violence, harassment and discrimination are, and their varying effects on diverse members of the community.
• Question and take appropriate steps to address attitudes, macroaggressions and other behaviours which are discriminatory. Acknowledges and respects diverse cultural traditions, abilities and beliefs.