Senior Scientist

Alberta Health Services; Calgary; On-site; CAD 62,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Alberta Health Services is seeking a Senior Scientist for Emergency Health Services (EHS Alberta) to provide strategic scientific leadership across research, evaluation and knowledge translation. You will align objectives with organizational priorities, design advanced studies, and translate findings into actionable improvements.

You will cultivate provincial and national partnerships, oversee research reviews, mentor staff, and help advance paramedicine science while ensuring ethical and

Qualifications

• Minimum five years’ full-time research experience.
• Master’s degree in health services research, epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, or medical science.
• Proven success in obtaining research funding, and creating, leading, publishing and translating to action complex research studies.
• Skills in quantitative analysis (descriptive, multivariable, etc.), or qualitative analysis (content, narrative, grounded theory, etc.).
• Extensive and refined skills in verbal and written communication.
• Knowledge of paramedicine performance measures and system measures of success.
• Minimum five years clinical experience as a Primary or Advanced Care/Critical Care Paramedic.
• Mixed methods research experience with multivariable analysis techniques and DAGs.
• Knowledge of qualitative techniques and focus group/interview data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic scientific leadership to advance research, program evaluation and knowledge translation across EHS Alberta.
• Develop research objectives addressing organizational priorities and complex system challenges.
• Design and implement leading-edge research and evaluation methodologies.
• Translate published research into meaningful action to inform policy and practice.
• Lead organizational research review processes and manage partnerships and funding opportunities.
• Mentor and supervise research staff, fostering scientific excellence and collaboration.

Skills

Research experience

Quantitative analysis

Qualitative analysis

Verbal and written communication

Paramedicine knowledge

Education

Master's degree in health services research/epidemiology/biostatistics/health economics/medical science

PhD in health services research/epidemiology/biostatistics/health economics/medical science

Job description

Your Opportunity

Senior Scientist, Emergency Health Services (EHS Alberta) provides strategic scientific leadership to advance research, innovation, program evaluation, and knowledge translation across the EHS Alberta system and the profession of paramedicine. Reporting to the Program Chief, Evidence and Innovation, and working closely with the Medical Director, Evidence and Innovation and Training, the Senior Scientist develops research objectives that address key organizational priorities and complex system challenges, designs and implements leading-edge research and evaluation methodologies, and applies evidence-informed practices to translate published research into meaningful action. The role provides expert counsel and decision support on strategic direction, service plan objectives, and clinical and operational initiatives that support innovation and continuous improvement within EHS Alberta, the broader Alberta healthcare system, and the evolving field of paramedicine. The Senior Scientist also leads organizational research review processes, evaluates proposed studies involving EHS Alberta, aligns research resources with organizational priorities, and ensures activities are conducted in accordance with established budgetary and financial management processes.

Description

Senior Scientist is accountable for the successful, fiscally responsible delivery of complex, high-profile, and strategically significant research and program evaluation projects. This includes ensuring alignment with organizational goals and service plan objectives, maintaining accountability to research ethics boards and funding agencies, and overseeing all operational aspects of research and knowledge translation projects, including risk management, issue resolution, staffing, and stakeholder engagement. The Senior Scientist recruits, mentors, supervises, and, where required, performance manages research associates, paramedics, students, support staff, and members of the Knowledge Creation team, fostering a culture of scientific excellence and collaboration that strengthens the professionalization of paramedicine. As a recognized leader within the scientific and paramedic communities, the Senior Scientist cultivates and leads provincial, national, and international research partnerships, funding opportunities, scholarly activities, symposia, conferences, and other initiatives that advance EHS Alberta's research enterprise and enhance the influence and impact of paramedicine on the provincial, national, and global stage. Please note, this position will expect occasional travel provincially, nationally and internationally along with some weekend and holiday work as required.

Transition Company: Emergency Health Services

Classification: Program Lead

Union: Exempt

Unit and Program: Evidence & Innovation

Primary Location: EMS Headquarters - Calgary

Location Details: As Per Location

Negotiable Location: Within Calgary Zone

Employee Class: Regular Full Time

FTE: 1.00

Posting End Date: 24-AUG-2026

Date Available: 15-SEP-2026

Hours per Shift: 7.75

Length of Shift in weeks: 2

Shifts per cycle: 10

Shift Pattern: Days

Days Off: Saturday/Sunday

Minimum Salary: $45.23

Maximum Salary: $77.51

Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications

• Minimum five years’ full-time research experience.
• Master’s degree in health services research, epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, or medical science.
• Demonstrated success in obtaining research funding, and creating, leading, publishing and translating to action complex research studies.
• Skills in quantitative analysis (descriptive, multivariable, etc.), or qualitative analysis (content, narrative, grounded theory, etc.).
• Extensive and refined skills in verbal and written communication.
• Knowledge of paramedicine performance measures and system measures of success.

Additional Required Qualifications

• Minimum five years clinical experience as a Primary or Advanced Care/Critical Care Paramedic with a history of providing care in a variety of geographic or functional areas of paramedicine.
• Mixed methods research experience, which includes knowledge and experience in multivariable analysis techniques such as logistic and linear regression, including the use of Directed Acyclic Graphs and other techniques to reflect the dynamic, complex and uncontrolled environment in which paramedicine is typically conducted, along with excellent understanding of the potential for confounding, modification, and collision.
• Knowledge of qualitative techniques and experience in analyzing data from focus groups and interviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in health services research, epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, or medical science.
• Primary or Advanced Care/Critical Care Paramedic diploma or degree with active registration in a professional college.