Posting Reason:

New Position

Job Type:

Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):

Job Family:

Research and Program Support

# of Open Positions:

Faculty/Service - Department:

CRC - The Human and Policy Dimensions of Climate Change

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

N/A

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/09/24

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/10/05

Hours per week:

Salary Grade:

Non-Union Grade NMR1

Salary Range:

$107,503.00 - $134,379.00

The Dawson Lab & uOttawa Arctic Research Hub

The University of Ottawa s Environment, Society and Policy Group (the Dawson Lab) is seeking a Research Manager to lead its interdisciplinary Arctic research portfolio. Reporting to Lab Director Jackie Dawson, you ll oversee major projects on climate change, sea ice, shipping and northern communities; supervise and mentor postdocs and research staff; manage reporting, ethics and field logistics; and help build new proposals and partnerships with academic, government and Indigenous collaborators. We re looking for someone with a Master s or PhD (or equivalent experience), 5+ years in research or project management, strong scientific writing skills, and fluency in English and French; Arctic experience and work with Inuit or Indigenous partners are strong assets. We offer competitive salary, professional development, language training and a collaborative team tackling one of the defining environmental and geopolitical challenges of our time.

Position Purpose:

Manages, supervises and controls all scientific, financial and operational aspects of major laboratory conducting multiple concurrent research projects or of a specialized facility providing analytical, equipment access or advisory services to a range of internal and external clients. The incumbent ensures that these laboratories and facilities operate effectively and efficiently as a state-of-the-art, internationally recognized, research and analytical facilities.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

Leadership

Oversees the overall operation and administration of a major laboratory conducting multiple concurrent research projects or of a specialized facility.
Creates and implements all strategies, policies, procedures and best practices needed to support the optimal performance of a laboratory or facility.
Plans, develops, organizes, implements, and directs the organization's laboratory or facility operations and evaluates performance.

Laboratory and Operations Management

Manages, administers and implements all research grants and contracts.
Oversees the operation of the laboratory or facility s equipment.
Establishes operations standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and on-time performance of research or analytical deliverables.
Collects, maintains, and manages statistics on equipment utilization.
Advises Principal Investigator of developing trends and emerging needs.
Oversees the operation of the laboratory s transaction processing, equipment scheduling, financial/accounting and inventory control systems.

Financial Management

Manages the laboratory s budget, including collection of user fees.
Ensures that expenditures are properly attributed to research grant and contract accounts.
Participates in the development and implementation of operational budgets.
Assists in the preparation of internal and external funding proposals.
Participates in detailed cost analyses.

Personnel Management

Manages laboratory personnel and authorized equipment users.
Interviews, hires, trains, and supervises laboratory personnel.
Ensures that personnel are competent to perform analytical procedures.
Promotes collaboration and teamwork.

Scientific Management

Performs sophisticated, specialized, non-routine, quantitative and qualitative analyses for clients.
Provides expert advice to users on their respective projects.
Supervises, instructs and demonstrates analysis techniques to laboratory staff.
Develops novel tests and methods, and ensures high quality laboratory services.
Formulates, plans and develops innovations to increase efficiency, productivity, accessibility and adaptability of the laboratory.
Ensures that analytical protocols are properly implemented.
Implements quality control and quality assurance programs.
Ensures that all data and analytical results are maintained.
Resolves problems by consulting with peers, Principal Investigators and others.

Infrastructure Management

Oversees or executes installations, maintenance, diagnosis, repairs and modifications to laboratory equipment.
Procures all supporting equipment, parts and services.
Oversees the laboratory s or facility s computational and information resources.
Ensures that the physical plant and environment conditions of the laboratory are appropriate.
Maintains data and reports on physical condition and equipment inventory.

Regulatory Management

Establishes and enforces security and safety protocols.
Ensures adherence to all applicable regulatory requirements.

Customer Service and Stakeholder Liaison

Ensures highest quality research and analytical service standards.
Establishes and maintains lines of communication with internal and external customers.
Works collaboratively with scientists on projects that lead to journal publications, presentations at professional meetings, and reports.
Promotes the University of Ottawa and the laboratory/facility to attract new users/projects.
Solicits business from external users to generate revenue.
Keeps abreast of all modern analytical techniques and implements novel techniques within the laboratory.
Any other related duties required by the research projects or management of the research laboratory or analytical facility.

What you will bring:

Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and at least five to seven years of practical experience as a senior researcher.
Extensive experience in research and/or analytical laboratory management.
Comprehensive knowledge of the physical principles governing the laboratory s collection of analytical instrumentation.
Deep familiarity with relevant analytical methodology and research instrumentation, including methodological development and validation.
Extensive experience in handling highly sophisticated analytical instrumentation.
Excellent technical skills, analytical ability, judgment with a strong operational focus.
Demonstrated organizational skills.
Excellent communications skills.
Excellent interpersonal, technical, scientific and communications skills (written/oral).
Ability to manage teams and people.
Advanced written and verbal skills in English or French. Bilingualism, spoken and written, is preferred.

Key Competencies at uOttawa:

Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position:

The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

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