Research Lab Coordinator

Date Posted: 03/24/2026
Req ID: 47451
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Technoscience Research Unit
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00059100
Existing Vacancy: Yes

 

Description:

 

About us:

The Technoscience Research Unit (TRU) at the University of Toronto is an Indigenous-led home for critical and creative research on science, technology and environment. Led by M. Murphy and Kristen Bos, the TRU has an internationally recognized focus on Indigenous Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Environmental Data Justice, and community-based research. The TRU is home to micro-laboratories, including the Environmental Data Justice Lab, with a focus on Indigenous community-based research in Canada’s Chemical Valley and the Indigenous Science and Ethical Substance Lab, which undertakes research in the areas of policy, methods, and practices concerning pollutants and environmental justice, and data justice. The TRU is dedicated to co-building decolonial, justice-oriented, and feminist research community. 

This position as Research Lab Coordinator is an opportunity to work closely helping to coordinate the research in these two labs. The position is funded by the All Our Chemical Relations project, a six-year-long collaborative effort supported by $22 million through the federal New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). This new, ambitious, collaborative research initiative brings Indigenous research methods to the challenge of profoundly transforming chemical risk management in Indigenous community-based practice, university labs and classes, regulatory practices, and policy development. This large, interinstitutional research project brings together 50+ researchers and collaborators from institutions in Canada and Aotearoa (New Zealand), putting Indigenous experts as leaders in designing how chemical risk is evaluated and managed. Our project puts Indigenous knowledgesat the forefront of how chemical risk is managed in communities, research design, and policy in this urgent time of environmental change. You will be working with the research project at the TRU with the PIs M. Murphy and Kristen Bos. To align with our strategic priorities, and the specificities of this role, we encourage individuals from Indigenous communities to apply.

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Your opportunity:

This position works closely with TRU lab members to support the day-to-day operations of ongoing research projects. TRU researchers include Indigenous and non-Indigenous members, academic faculty, full and part-time Indigenous community researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and students at all levels. Our research includes collaborations with community members, Indigenous organizations, policy makers, scientists, and government scientists. This research tends to be collaborative and includes community-based methods, qualitative methods, quantitative methods, and arts-based methods. Our research activities are guided by TRU values and commitments to care and reciprocity, decolonial methods, and Indigenous data governance. This position is an opportunity to be involved in creating and collaborating with innovative and complex collaborative research practices in a caring and positive research setting.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing day-to-day operational needs for one or more labs/research projects
• Developing project schedules including milestones, criticalpath, timelines, deliverables and reporting
• Liaising with all stakeholders to ensure budget, deadlines, standards, and scope are met
• Drafting progress reports for project leader’s review
• Verifying that research accounts are processed according to sponsor and/or granting agency guidelines.
• Informing Principal Investigator of concerns or setbacks

 

Essential Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree or acceptable combination ofequivalent experience
• Five (5) years’ of relevant experiencein in a combination of working with research management, and/or with Indigenous communities and peoples, and/or in a community-based research setting
• Experience cultivating and maintaining relationships with community stakeholders including Indigenous organizations, Elders and Knowledge Keepers
• Experience supporting diverse needs/access
• Experience facilitating meetings
• Experience with budget tracking and preparing financial reports with a strong attention to detail
• Experience preparing, editing, formatting and drafting documents (e.g. grant applications, research summaries, reports, agreements, surveys)
• Experience coordinating complex schedules, committees, and logistics
• Strong understanding of Indigenous culture and protocols, systemic barriers to access and success
• Ability to maintain stakeholder relationships using a deep understanding of complex issues and with demonstrated sensitivity and tact, ability to exercise tact, diplomacy and sensitivity, especially in cross cultural and international environments
• Excellent listening skills, communication skills, written and verbal skills
• Effective project coordination, time management and organizational skills, including ability to prioritize and manage several projects simultaneously.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams

Assets (Nonessential):

• Knowing an Indigenous language, or knowledge of the diversity of Indigenous languages.
• Prior experience working with policies regarding Indigenous data sovereignty, such as OCAP and CARE.
• Having familiarity with public debates surrounding chemical risk and/ or environmental issues of high relevance to Indigenous people, communities, or organizations.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Team player

 

Closing Date: 04/14/2026, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Grant - Continuing 
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:  
USW Pay Band 14 -- $91,677. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $117,242. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.  
Job Category: Research Administration & Teaching

 

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

 

A job description is available upon request

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