Position: Manager, Research Contracts
Status: Regular, Full-time (1.0 FTE)
Start Date: April 1, 2025
Supervisor: Megan Stewart, Director Research Operations and Business Development
Program: Bloorview Research Institute
*Please note that the role is currently ungraded.
Join us in building a world of possibility for children with neurodevelopmental differences and disabilities!
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada's largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital and is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. It has ranked amongst Canada's top 40 research hospitals for more than a decade. Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People and Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.
The Bloorview Research Institute (BRI), embedded within the hospital, is the only university-affiliated research institute in Canada dedicated to pediatric disability, and one of very few around the world. BRI's vision is to be a global leader in transformative, equity-driven research dedicated to enabling personalized versions of a good life across the lifespan, for all individuals with childhood onset disabilities, acquired injuries and developmental differences, their families and communities.
DESCRIPTION:
Reporting to the Director, Research Operations & Business Development, the Manager, Research Contracts position oversees the contract team to support faculty and staff within the Bloorview Research Institute.
The research contracts team receives and drafts approximately 140 agreements a year. Many of these agreements are coming from out of country pharmaceutical companies or other academic institutions. The Manger, Research Contracts is responsible for the day-to-day guidance and training of the research contracts team; the development and implementation of processes; review and negotiation of high-risk agreements including Clinical Trial Agreements that support BRI researchers.
This role requires 3 days a week on-site.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Overseeing contracts staff
Developing policies and procedures
Conducting contract review and finalization
Ensuring risk is reduced for research completed at Holland Bloorview through the negotiation of the best possible terms in contracts
Leading the development and constant improvement of contract review services and contracts flow
Providing education to researchers and staff
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