Program Coordinator

University of Alberta

Program Coordinator managing research projects and lab operations in the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at the University of Alberta. Role involves budgeting, team leadership, and project coordination.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeEdmonton • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$75,304 - CA$104,224 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Coordinate research projects under the direction of the Principal Investigator, including timelines, deliverables, reporting, and project milestones.
Support research planning, including research questions, data collection methods, ethics activities, participant recruitment, and data collection.
Prepare, edit, and submit grant applications, reports, academic papers, and other research materials.
Monitor funded project requirements and ensure reporting is completed accurately and on time.
Help connect multiple lab activities into a cohesive strategy that supports long-term sustainability.
Supervise and assign work to research staff, students, interns, co-op students, and volunteers.
Support recruitment, onboarding, training, performance feedback, and professional development for lab members.
Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe lab culture.
Work with HR partners on hiring, employee relations, performance, and compliance matters when needed.
Liaise with HR and supervise staff, students, and trainees within a unionized environment.
Manage day-to-day lab operations, including meetings, events, travel, records, equipment, workspace, and administrative processes.
Monitor lab and project budgets, including expenses, staff salary allocations, purchasing, P-Card reporting, and financial transactions.
Act as a key point of contact for the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab.
Respond to inquiries from students, staff, faculty, community partners, health system partners, and other external collaborators.
Support lab safety compliance, including hazard assessments, safety information, training, signage, and access.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in science, health care, public health, rehabilitation, or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in an academic research, health research, or related research environment.
Experience managing budgets of $1 million or higher.
Proficiency with common office, collaboration, and data management tools, such as Microsoft Office, Google applications, PeopleSoft, or REDCap.
Experience supervising, mentoring, assigning work, or coordinating the work of staff, students, trainees, interns, or volunteers.
Experience coordinating research projects, including timelines, deliverables, reporting, ethics activities, participant recruitment, data collection, or knowledge translation.
Experience supporting research outputs such as grant applications, reports, academic publications, presentations, literature reviews, or similar written materials.
Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
Strong written, verbal, editing, and knowledge translation skills, with the ability to adapt communication for different audiences.
Ability to build positive working relationships with academic, community, health system, and internal university partners.
Demonstrated judgment, initiative, adaptability, and ability to work independently in a changing environment.
Patient-oriented research training, such as AbSPORU or similar.
Experience with community engagement, rural health care, disability communities, or community-based research.
Experience with qualitative research methods, including data collection and analysis.
Experience managing research budgets, financial processes, purchasing, expenses, or project funding.
Experience organizing or presenting at workshops, seminars, conferences, lab tours, or community-facing events.
Experience contributing to inclusive, psychologically safe, and collaborative team environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

research project coordinationbudget managementdata collection methodsqualitative research methodsgrant application preparationknowledge translationparticipant recruitmentreport writingacademic publicationfinancial processes

Soft Skills

organizational skillsattention to detailcommunication skillsrelationship buildingjudgmentinitiativeadaptabilityindependencecollaborationmentoring

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in scienceBachelor’s degree in health careBachelor’s degree in public healthBachelor’s degree in rehabilitationAbSPORU training