Research Manager

ubc; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

UBC, located in Vancouver, seeks a full-time Research Manager to coordinate an interdisciplinary AI-focused program in psychiatry and cancer care. Hybrid work with in-person days at BC Cancer (Vancouver) and UBC campus; reporting to Dr. John-Jose Nunez.

Responsibilities include leading manuscript and grant efforts, supervising researchers, and ensuring ethics and data governance across projects.

Qualifications

• PhD or postdoctoral fellowship preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation of peer-reviewed manuscripts, conference abstracts, and scientific reports, advising on authorship and results presentation.
• Design and lead research projects, evaluating AI tools for clinical adoption and study design decisions.
• Develop grant proposals and funding applications, budget justifications, and coordination of co-investigator contributions.
• Oversee research ethics, regulatory, and data governance activities across lab projects (UBC RISe).
• Coordinate participant recruitment and study implementation across multiple projects and supervise junior trainees.

Job description

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level B

Job Title

Research Manager

Department

Nunez Laboratory | Department of Psychiatry | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range

$7,158.42 - $10,292.25 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date

September 18, 2026 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

August 31, 2027

Job Summary

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is seeking a full-time Research Manager to help coordinate and support an interdisciplinary research program applying artificial intelligence to psychiatry and supportive cancer care. The program, led by Dr. John-Jose Nunez (a dual-trained psychiatrist and computer scientist) in collaboration with BC Cancer and the UBC Mood Disorders Centre, spans patient navigation tools, clinical guideline chatbots, and predictive models for psychosocial and psychiatric needs.The Research Manager will manage the lab's day-to-day research operations and lead project execution across several concurrent studies, including writing grant and funding applications, manuscripts, and ethics submissions; leading and managing research projects, including those focused on the evaluation and implementation of the AI tools the lab is developing; recruiting and running studies; and onboarding/supervising junior trainees, all under the general direction of the Principal Investigator. This role suits someone with research management experience, or who has completed a PhD or postdoctoral fellowship and is interested in research management.Reports to: Dr. John-Jose Nunez, Principal InvestigatorFTE: Full-time (35 hrs/week)Work Arrangement: Hybrid, with in-person days at both BC Cancer (Vancouver) and the UBC Vancouver campus.Start date: As soon as possible

Work Performed

• Lead the preparation of peer-reviewed manuscripts, conference abstracts, and scientific reports, deciding how results are presented and recommending target venues, and consulting the PI on scientific claims and authorship.
• Design and lead research projects, including evaluations of the lab's AI tools and implementation-focused research on how they are adopted in clinical care, making professional decisions on study design and analysis, and bringing completed work to the PI for review.
• Lead the development of grant proposals and funding applications, identifying suitable funding opportunities, determining proposal positioning and scientific framing, developing research budgets and justifications, and directing the integration of co-investigator contributions.
• Lead research ethics, regulatory, and data-governance activities across the lab's project portfolio (UBC RISe), interpreting requirements, determining submission and amendment strategies, identifying compliance risks, and recommending substantive protocol changes to the PI.
• Develop and oversee participant-recruitment and study-implementation strategies across multiple projects, assessing recruitment feasibility, participant eligibility, protocol compliance, and emerging risks, and directing operational changes required to achieve study objectives.
• Establish and govern the content, structure, validation methodology, and quality standards for resource databases supporting the lab's AI navigation tools, assessing the implications of database decisions for research validity, clinical implementation, and tool performance.
• Manage the lab's research-support workforce, determining staffin

Organizational Status

The Research Manager receives direction from and reports to the Principal Investigator (Dr. John-Jose Nunez), who is cross-appointed with the Department of Computer Science. They will interact with co-investigators, patient partners, and collaborators across BC Cancer and the Departments of Computer Science and Psychiatry. They will coordinate with senior lab members (data scientists, postdoctoral fellows, developers) on shared project work, and will supervise and mentor research assistants, medical (FLEX) students, and undergraduate trainees.