Job Description

Union: Non-Union
Number of vacancies: 1
New or Replacement Position: New
Site: University Centre Toronto Rehab
Department: AGE-WELL
Reports to: CEO - AGE-WELL
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary Range: $43.08 - $64.62 per hour
Shifts: Day
Status: Temporary Full-time (1 year contract, possibility of renewal)
Closing Date: June 20, 2026

Position Summary

AGE-WELL is seeking a Research Associate II to lead the research, co-creation, and evaluation components of an exciting national initiative. The project focuses on designing, testing, and scaling a digital platform that consolidates AgeTech knowledge, tools, and evidence into a centralized, accessible hub for older adults, caregivers, researchers, and policymakers.

This role supports a national collaborative research initiative by AGE-WELL and the National Research Council of Canada's Aging in Place Challenge Program.

This role will be primarily responsible for research and project management streams of the initiative:

1. Research & Evaluation Leadership: You will lead a nationwide e-Delphi study to build ecosystem consensus on impact metrics for healthy aging, ensuring insights from co-creation activities are dynamically woven into the platform's core evaluation framework.
2. Project Management & Alignment: You will provide operational leadership across multiple workstreams-tracking timelines, managing risks, and coordinating deliverables among diverse partners in academia, industry, government, and experts by lived experience.

In completing this work, the candidate will work closely with AGE-WELL and NRC project team members, and with partners across academia, industry, health systems, government, and experts by lived experience to ensure the platform and its curated components are evidence-informed, user-centered, and impactful.

Duties

• Lead research design and execution across project activities
• Provide strategic oversight and alignment of co-creation and engagement activities to ensure they inform research, evaluation, and platform development
• Support development and refinement of the platform through iterative testing
• Collaborate with project partners, including NRC, on integration of resources and alignment
• Contribute to project reporting, deliverables, and overall project coordination
• Identify and manage interdependencies, risks, and bottlenecks across project workstreams
• Support project planning, tracking, and reporting in collaboration with project leadership
• Contribute to high-level planning and project reporting, deliverables, and overall project coordination
• Ensure that insights from co-creation activities (e.g., workshops, communities of practice) are captured, synthesized, and translated into actionable evidence, metrics, and platform improvements

Qualifications

• Master's degree required. Graduate degree (PhD ) in a relevant field (e.g., gerontology, health sciences, public health, implementation science, human-computer interaction) preferred
• At minimum, 7 years experience, required
• Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder research or innovation projects
• Strong expertise in knowledge mobilization, co-creation, and/or implementation science
• Exceptional relationship management skills with a track record of working effectively alongside diverse groups, including academic researchers and experts by lived experience.

Additional Information

• Competitive offer packages
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP https://hoopp.com/)
• Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

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Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.