Job Title Community-Engaged Research and Partnerships Specialist Job Category M&P;
- AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried
- Research and Facilitation, Level A Job Family Group Staff
- Non Union Department Student Support | Centre for Migration Studies Compensation Range $5,692.25
- $8,179.50 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The Community-Engaged Research and Partnerships Specialist is responsible for implementing the Centre for Migration Studies’ research, partnership, and training priorities, including advancing community-campus research activities, supporting grant applications; developing and delivering training opportunities, and facilitating community-engaged research initiatives. The role identifies, coordinates and implements cooperative research activities; identifies collaborative funding opportunities and helps develop grant proposals; advises and supports the operational implementation of community-engaged research methodologies; creates and implements training activities around ethical community-engagement practices; and serves as a primary point of contact connecting community partners with CMS faculty and students. The incumbent works collaboratively with community organizations in the immigrant-serving sector, Indigenous partners, CMS staff, and interdisciplinary research teams to advance research, training and related partnerships aligned with principles of relational accountability, equity, and mutual benefit. Community-engaged Research Practices and Activities Serves as an initial point of contact for community organizations seeking research collaboration with CMS and helps identify appropriate faculty, student, or institutional partners and provides guidance on how to navigate UBC structures, processes,



and research opportunities. Helps faculty and students understand and navigate community-sector relationships, including identifying and making connections between UBC researchers and people or groups with relevant community expertise. Works with PIs and community members to create research and engagement protocols that advance ethical, equitable, reciprocal and mutually beneficial collaborations, participatory research approaches, and knowledge mobilization activities meaningful to all involved. Works with university-community teams at multiple touchpoints to help clarify expectations, roles, timelines, resources, and reciprocal benefits. Depending on Centre priorities and funding, may contribute to or help oversee data collection and/or analysis in community-engaged research under the direction of Principal Investigators, as well as prepare community reports, research products, and collaborative knowledge dissemination. Funding Development & Training Activities Produces and maintains resources to support mutually beneficial, effective university-community partnerships, including information on funding opportunities, partnership development, research practices, and knowledge mobilization. Monitors emerging research interests and opportunities identified by community partners and connects regularly with CMS researchers to identify potential collaborations aligned with CMS priorities.



Actively scans for new funding opportunities to support community engagement. Grant opportunities span academic sources (e.g., UBC’s Community-University Engagement Support Fund or Indigenous Strategic Initiatives fund), foundation grants, and private giving. Develops and delivers training opportunities for CMS faculty, students, trainees, community partners, and other affiliates on university-community engagement, community-based research, equitable and non-exploitative community-engaged research, and knowledge mobilization, including activities associated with the Graduate Certificate in Migration Studies. Identifies, develops and pilots training opportunities related to migration and/or responsible research for community members, working with immigrant-serving organizations, grassroots groups, and other partners. Partnership Stewardship & Community Relations Leads engagement with the CMS Community Advisory Board, including agenda development, member communication, meeting facilitation, follow-up, honoraria, and the integration of CAB advice into CMS programs, research initiatives, partnership activities, and training opportunities, working in collaboration with the Senior Manager, Co-Directors, faculty Community Liaison, and community representative on the CMS’s Executive Committee. Plans and facilitates other community advisory meetings, gatherings, learning exchanges, and relationship-building processes, working to ensure that public-facing events reflect community priorities and create meaningful opportunities for community participation and exchange. Works with CMS staff, co-directors and community partners to develop and implement CMS engagement events and community-oriented or community-engaged programming, including the

📌 Community-Engaged Research and Partnerships Specialist (Canada)
🏢 University of British Columbia
📍 Canada