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About the Role
The Lab Coordinator is responsible for the smooth day-to-day operation of a research lab, involving data acquisition on cognition and brain response. This role ensures efficient scheduling, participant management, and general lab maintenance, while also providing administrative support to the Principal Investigator, assisting with ethics protocols and grants, and supporting graduate students with participant testing and data collation. This is a two-year term opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Acquire data on cognition and brain response.
- Ensure participants and/or testing rooms are not double-booked.
- Ensure forms are available to sign and payments/participation credits are processed.
- Recruit participants.
- Prepare test materials.
- Schedule and keep track of participants’ appointments and their compensation.
- Interact with research assistants about their duties.
- Perform general maintenance of the research lab.
- Ensure supplies are adequately stocked.
- Compile receipts and forms.
- Ensure reference libraries are maintained.
- Update and maintain lab manuals.
- Update lab files and website.
- Back up information weekly.
- Contact departmental computer staff to ensure programs and computers run properly.
- Maintain a tidy environment.
- Provide administrative support to the Principal Investigator.
- Assist with ethics protocols and grants.
- Assist graduate students with participant testing and data collating.
- Proof and post adverts to recruit applicants.
- Prepare consent forms using templates.
- Disseminate and collect research surveys and questionnaires.
- Generate reports.
- Coordinate meeting schedules, agendas, materials, action and follow-up items.
- Respond to enquiries within the defined scope of the role and redirect as appropriate.
- Record or verify transactions on a single account.
- Provide orientation to others on work procedures and practices.
Requirements
- Minimum two (2) years of relevant experience in a research lab or as a lab coordinator with knowledge of research methodology.
- Experience working with participants and collecting data/samples.
- Experience in trouble-shooting various technologies along with website maintenance.
- Experience interacting with participants and students of diverse backgrounds.
- Strong computer skills including with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Sound time-management, organizational skills, and ability to multi-task.
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure to meet multiple competing deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail, ability to use sound judgment, and proven ability to work within a team.
Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Website maintenance
- Trouble-shooting technologies
- Participant interaction
- Data collection
- Research methodology
- Time-management
- Organizational skills
- Multi-tasking
- Interpersonal communication
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Attention to detail
- Judgment
- Teamwork
Location
- St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Term
Experience Level
- Minimum two (2) years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $62,646 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $80,116
About the Company
- The Faculty of Arts & Science is the heart of Canada’s leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world.
- The strength of Arts & Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs.
- The diversity of opportunities and perspectives within the Faculty reflect the local and global landscape and the need for curiosity, innovative thinking and collaboration.
- At Arts & Science, we take pride in our legacy of innovation and discovery that has changed the way we think about the world.
- Established in 1927, the Department of Psychology has for more than a century been a top choice for those pursuing a career in psychological research.
- The combined expertise of our faculty spans all major areas of psychology and reflects a wide range of approaches to the study of mind, brain and behaviour.
- Our department comprises a diverse and internationally recognized faculty, first-rate laboratory facilities and a tradition of cutting-edge, collaborative research in an inspiring intellectual atmosphere.
- The Einstein Lab (Dr. Gillian Einstein) studies how the structure and function of the brain is influenced by the context of people’s lives, especially sex and gender.
- These influences include hormones and genes, as well as culture, social environment and personal life experiences.
- In turn, these factors can influence our health and successful aging (https://einsteinlab.ca/).
Equal Opportunity
- Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.