Project Manager

RI-MUHC | Research Institute of the MUHC | #rimuhc; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4-week vacation

Telemedicine

Professional development

Parking

Pension plan

Job summary

RI-MUHC, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, located in Montreal, Quebec, seeks a Project Manager for the Centre for Precision Psychiatry – Quebec (CPPQ). You will coordinate multi-site operations, budgets, and staff while ensuring ethical and data-quality standards across a major mental health research program.

Strong leadership, French/English proficiency, and a Master’s degree are required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Psychology/Psychiatry/Nursing/Administration or related field.
• Experience in project and team management; clinical experience is an asset.
• Advanced knowledge of oral and written French and English required for complex communications.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day research operations across sites, coordinating workflows and staffing.
• Develop objectives, timelines, and operational strategies for multi-site projects.
• Manage multi-site budgets, track expenditures and optimize resources.
• Supervise and support research staff and volunteers, including training and evaluations.
• Supervise clinical research staff and lead scoring reviews to ensure reliability and training.
• Manage prospective data users from application through data sharing and follow-up (DTAs/MTAs).
• Maintain ethics approvals, coordinate submissions, and address privacy and data-access requirements.
• Identify data-quality issues and implement standardized procedures and quality controls.
• Contribute to study design, psychometric analyses, and research reporting.

Skills

French language proficiency

English language proficiency

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

Do you want to work for a world-renowned research institute that pushes the boundaries of biomedical science and health research? Right here in Montreal! At the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), you can be part of an organization focused on scientific discovery and innovation in patient-centered medicine. Join us today and make a difference!

Job Description

RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MUHC

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is a world-renowned biomedical and hospital research centre. Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Institute is the research arm of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The RI-MUHC is supported in part by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS).

Position Summary

Department / Research Program: Psychiatry

The Centre for Precision Psychiatry – Quebec (CPPQ) is seeking a project manager for our large-scale longitudinal mental health research project across three clinical research sites, including recruitment, data collection, budget, timelines, and project milestones. We are collecting clinical and biological data from patients undergoing psychiatric treatment to make them available through open science.

General Duties

• Site operations: Oversee day-to-day research operations across sites, including workflows, staffing, coordination of research teams, problem-solving, and SOP development and maintenance.
• Strategic planning: Develop project objectives, timelines, and operational strategies, coordinate strategic planning and monitor progress toward project milestones.
• Budget and financial management: Develop and monitor multi-site budgets, track expenditures and projections, and identify opportunities to optimize resources and reduce costs.
• Team leadership: Supervise and support research staff and volunteers, including workload planning, weekly supervision, evaluations, contracts, professional development, training, and leave management.
• Clinical supervision and quality assurance: Supervise and train clinical research staff and lead scoring reviews to support inter-rater reliability, consistency, and ongoing clinical training.
• Data user management and data sharing: Manage prospective data users from application through data sharing and follow-up, including communications, documentation, DTAs, and MTAs.
• Ethics and regulatory management: Maintain project ethics approvals, coordinate ethics submissions, and address ethical, privacy, confidentiality, and data-access requirements.
• Data quality and research operations: Identify and resolve data-quality issues, develop standardized procedures, and quality-control processes.
• Scientific research: Contribute to study design, psychometric analyses, data quality assessment, manuscripts, scientific presentations, and research reports, supervise undergraduate research projects.
• Reporting and dissemination: Prepare annual reports, presentations, and project documentation for institutional and funding partners.
• Partnerships, representation, and communications: Represent the project with research partners, institutional and funding organizations, external users, media, and other stakeholders, build and maintain collaborative relationships and oversee project communications.

Website of the organization

https://rimuhc.ca/en

Education / Experience

Education: Master's Degree

Field of Study: Psychology/Psychiatry/Nursing/Administration

Work Experience: Experience in project and team management, clinical experience is an important asset

Required Skills

• This position requires an advanced knowledge of oral and written French.
• An advanced knowledge of oral and written English is required, as the position requires regular and complex contact with patients, researchers or international students who are exclusively proficient in English. The position also requires complex writing or in-depth analysis of documents in English related to a research project.

Additional information

Status: Temporary, full time (35-hour workweek)

Pay Scale: Commensurate with education and experience

Work Shift: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm

Work Site: Allan Memorial Institute, 1025 Pine Ave. W

This position offers the possibility of a hybrid work arrangement (on-site and remote).

Why work with us?

• 4-week vacation, 5th week after 5 years,
• Bank of 12 paid days (personal days and days for sickness or family obligations),
• 13 paid statutory holidays,
• Modular group insurance plan (including gender affirmation coverage),
• Telemedicine,
• RREGOP (defined benefit government pension plan),
• Training and professional development opportunities,
• Child Care Centres,
• Corporate Discounts (OPUS + Perkopolis),
• Competitive monthly parking rate,
• Employee Assistance Program,
• Recognition Program,
• Flex work options and much more!

https://rimuhc.ca/careers

To learn more about our benefits, please visit http://rimuhc.ca/en/compensation-and-benefits

THIS IS NOT A HOSPITAL POSITION.

Equal Opportunity Employment Program

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion within its community. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates who self-identify as members of racialized groups/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons. We also welcome candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may confidentially contact, [e-mail]