Vice-President (Research and Innovation)

Candidates for Vice-President (Research and Innovation) will be accomplished researchers, scholars, or creative practitioners, exemplary leaders, and collaborative teambuilders with a proven record of directing and strengthening large, complex academic research and innovation enterprises as well as demonstrated history of securing significant competitive research funding. With an open, transparent, respectful, team-focused and collegial approach to leadership, communication, and interpersonal relationships, the new VPRI will champion equity, diversity, and inclusion, and empower the Office of Research to support its people, partnerships and community. Able to develop and promote multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research initiatives, the new VPRI will excel in obtaining internal and external support for research, connecting and translating research impacts to the community, and engaging with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and partners. The new VPRI will be an innovative problem solver with a sophisticated understanding of the relationships between research, open science and open access, knowledge translation and mobilization, innovation and commercialization as interconnected drivers of research impact. A strong understanding of the Tri-Agency funding landscape, including opportunities to increase SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR support is expected.