Research Associate Scientist, Research and Innovation - FTT( J0326-0435 )

Company Bio

North York General is one of Canada’s leading community academic hospitals with a vision to deliver World-Class Care, 24/7. Affiliated with the University of Toronto, our multi-site campus supports our diverse community through every stage and life-defining moment by providing a wide range of acute care, ambulatory and long-term care services.

What defines North York General goes beyond exceptional quality care. Our superpower is how we deliver that care – the unparalleled compassion we bring to every encounter, during the moments that matter. Through partnerships, collaboration and academic endeavours, we seek to set new standards for People-Centred Care—a cornerstone of our culture and central to our Mission: People-Centred Care for a healthier community.

North York General is a member of the North York Toronto Health Partners, an Ontario Health Team that integrates local care with patients, primary care and community partners.

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Position Summary

Research Associate Scientist, Research and Innovation We are looking for a Scientist to support a body of research within the North York General Hospital’s Research and Innovation unit. The successful candidate will play a lead scientific and operational role across multiple research programs of the Knowledge Translation and Implementation Research Program at North York General. These include a multi-phase research program focused on digital health, implementation science, and health equity for high-priority and underserved adult and older adult populations. The successful candidate will be a researcher with a track record of research, scholarship and collaboration. They will need to be independent, resilient, and innovative, with exceptional communication skills and research experience, and will work in close collaboration with the research team, partner organizations, other research networks, patients, caregivers (families or friends), and communities. They will be expected to develop ideas into grant proposals, lead high-quality research projects, write manuscripts, and lead knowledge mobilization campaigns to effectively disseminate research results and outputs into practice and policy. The candidate will also be expected to lead research in advancing the science of implementation and knowledge mobilization. Overall, they will be a critical companion to the team. The incumbent will work with a high degree of independence under the direction of the Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and Implementation at North York General, providing scientific leadership on study design, data analysis, knowledge mobilization, and grant development, while overseeing day‑to‑day research operations and mentoring junior team members and graduate-level trainees. This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly applied health services and implementation science researcher to make a practical contribution to improving understanding of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), multimorbidity, injury prevention, social frailty, and patient engagement across priority populations, and to advance the science of knowledge mobilization and implementation. The scientist’s role will be to both create new knowledge and mobilize established evidence. This position contributes to the shared responsibility of ensuring that health and safety policies are followed to provide a healthy environment for patients, staff, physicians, volunteers, and families.

On a practical level, you will

The key role of the Scientist will be to lead and collaborate on research opportunities within the Knowledge Translation and Implementation (KTI) Program of the Research and Innovation unit at the North York General Hospital, its community and beyond. Core responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: . Conceptualize, design, and lead quantitative, qualitative, and mixed‑methods studies aligned with the KTI research program’s goals (e.g., evidence syntheses, co‑design studies, implementation and evaluation studies; e.g., hybrid implementation‑effectiveness evaluations) . Lead the development of research protocols, data collection instruments, and analytic plans, including application of implementation science and equity frameworks and methods. . Oversee and contribute to ethics submissions, amendments, and renewals, ensuring compliance with institutional and regulatory requirements. . Lead scoping reviews, systematic reviews, and other evidence syntheses, including protocol development, database searching, screening, data extraction, critical appraisal, and synthesis . Provide methodological consultation to the team (including trainees) on study design, measurement, mixed‑methods integration, and application of implementation and equity frameworks. . Provide scientific leadership on the design, testing, and refinement of digital tools and platforms (e.g., po