Career Level

Minimum 10 years of management experience with exposure to clinical trials and project management

Job Description Should the successful applicant be a Unifor Unit 1 bargaining unit member, who meets the eligibility conditions of Article 19.02 of the Unifor Unit 1 Collective Agreement, then the Limited Term Assignment will be defined as a Career Growth Opportunity in accordance with Article 19 of the Unifor Local 5555 Unit 1 Collective Agreement.

Unit Description The Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT) Consortium is a CIHR funded program through the Pan-Canadian Clinical Trials Consortium Grant competition. The specific objectives of the Consortium are to:

Strengthen and Expand Canada’s Clinical Trial Ecosystem and Infrastructure

Improve Clinical Trial Efficiency and Regulatory Processes

Promote Equity, Inclusion, and Patient-Centered Participation in Clinical Trials, and Research Impact

Advance Novel Trial Designs, Innovation, and Pandemic Preparedness

The ACT Consortium is coordinated within the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), which is a joint institute of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences and is comprised of about 300 employees working directly with over 60 clinician researchers. PHRI conducts clinical research internationally in 102 countries and is a world leader in large, global health and population and health outcomes research.

Job Summary The Population Health Research Institute is seeking a Program Manager (PM) who will be responsible for the successful administration and management of the ACT Consortium. They will be responsible for ensuring consortium objectives are achieved; will monitor timelines and deliverables; develop consortium policies, plans, manuals,



and charters; plan and manage annual meetings; seek external and industry sponsorship; and forge and maintain relationships with stakeholders across Canada and globally.

The PM is accountable to the Senior Scientist and PHRI Head of Operations for those functions and is responsive to Consortium researchers, committees and working groups. The PM provides direct leadership of the program’s McMaster/PHRI staff and provides support and functional guidance to the program team members.

Accountabilities In a collaborative team environment, which embraces the values of integrity, teamwork, and inclusivity, the Program Manager will serve as a leader and is accountable for the following:

Operational Leadership:

Establish long and short-term program development and planning with program scientific lead including performance metrics

Provide leadership for good program governance, alignment, quality assurance, management, integration, tracking, finances, infrastructure, planning, and improvement

Prepares reports of ACT Consortium achievements and strengths and fit for a given strategic initiative or funding/collaboration prospect

Advises external collaborators regarding project planning

Oversees all aspects of planning, coordinating, and implementing large national research symposia (typically 1 per year, 300 participants)





Ensures that Consortium activities are conducted in accordance with the ACT committees’ and working groups’ terms of references and projects are conducted in accordance with PHRI SOPs and policies, as well as with international regulatory/privacy requirements, funding agency policies, and all project agreements/contracts with external vendors, partners, and collaborators

Identifies opportunities for program/process evaluations and quality improvements

Leads the contract negotiations including the development of scopes of work

Monitors and reports on the scopes of work to ensure accuracy and completion of activities as described in contractual and grant commitments

Monitors and controls timelines to ensure completion of program activities on schedule

Partnerships, Networking and Corporate Relationships:

Develops collaborations with researchers in other departments (interdisciplinary), other universities (inter-institutional) or government organizations and industry (inter-sectoral), and international partners

Develops partnerships with research user groups (e.g. community organizations, industry, Policy makers, managers) to help shape program initiative directions

Responsible for assisting and advising potential external collaborators as well as PHRI Leaders and investigators, regarding building new collaborations and entering into formal agreements

Writes large-scale multi-institutional, multi-sector international funding applications (networks and institutes) requiring program justification and proposals, budget and resource justifications, timelines, and deliverables, as well as governance plans, business plans, collaboration plans, training and mentor

📌 Program Manager, ACT (Canada)
🏢 McMaster University
📍 Canada