| Position Type: | Part-time |
| Location: | London, ON |
| Date Posted: | May 02, 2024 |
| Experience: | 1 Year |
| Education: | University Degree |
Job Description
Position Summary
We are looking for a Research Assistant (RA) to support numerous projects surrounding child & environmental health for the Children's Environmental Health Clinic Ontario (ChEHC ON), at Children's Hospital, LHSC. This includes helping implement the Land Base Healing/Nature for Healing program, involving prescribing nature connections & developing new naturalized areas (natureforhealing.org), knowledge translation work to promote the understanding of how environmental issues & climate change effect child health (c2hc.ca), studies investigating the health effects of environmental issues and improving hospital sustainability.
Responsibilities would include
1. Help organize interdisciplinary meetings that include community members for various projects.
2. Support grant applications to expand our funding.
3. Opportunity to support research manuscripts for CV building & future experience.
4. Coordinate social media presence for ChEHC ON (we have infographics/educational material developed for the roll-out aimed to support community engagement & knowledge translation).
5. Design infographics & social media videos, podcast editing, to support knowledge translation efforts.
This is a part time posting (0.5 FTE – 20 hours a week), benefits inclusive. There is the possibility for increasing hours & promotion within the team in the future.
Applicants must have an undergraduate degree and demonstrate the ability to accumulate knowledge, flexibility, multi-task, creativity, initiative and passion for the health of our environment.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please send you CV and a cover letter to: childhealthresearch@lhsc.on.ca, referencing “RA – Child and Environmental Health Position” in the subject line. Deadline for submission is May 17th, 2024.
We are looking for a Research Assistant (RA) to support numerous projects surrounding child & environmental health for the Children's Environmental Health Clinic Ontario (ChEHC ON), at Children's Hospital, LHSC. This includes helping implement the Land Base Healing/Nature for Healing program, involving prescribing nature connections & developing new naturalized areas (natureforhealing.org), knowledge translation work to promote the understanding of how environmental issues & climate change effect child health (c2hc.ca), studies investigating the health effects of environmental issues and improving hospital sustainability.
Responsibilities would include
1. Help organize interdisciplinary meetings that include community members for various projects.
2. Support grant applications to expand our funding.
3. Opportunity to support research manuscripts for CV building & future experience.
4. Coordinate social media presence for ChEHC ON (we have infographics/educational material developed for the roll-out aimed to support community engagement & knowledge translation).
5. Design infographics & social media videos, podcast editing, to support knowledge translation efforts.
This is a part time posting (0.5 FTE – 20 hours a week), benefits inclusive. There is the possibility for increasing hours & promotion within the team in the future.
Applicants must have an undergraduate degree and demonstrate the ability to accumulate knowledge, flexibility, multi-task, creativity, initiative and passion for the health of our environment.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please send you CV and a cover letter to: childhealthresearch@lhsc.on.ca, referencing “RA – Child and Environmental Health Position” in the subject line. Deadline for submission is May 17th, 2024.
