Job Description Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence , CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca. To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here . The national Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM) network is seeking a full-time, contract (1-year) dynamic and creative CH&E Coordinator to support the development and dissemination of knowledge translation (KT) products for national projects. The network comprises five regional nodes across the country and a national Indigenous Engagement Platform. The objective of CRISM is to translate evidence-based interventions for illicit and prescription drug use into clinical practice, community-based prevention, and health system changes. The network conducts substance use intervention research, including community-based primary and secondary prevention, as well as randomized pharmacotherapy and psychosocial trials with collaborating treatment programs and is well positioned to do so as it is modeled after the US National Institute of Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network. Similar to the NIH network, CRISM is a national consortium of academic researchers, service-providers, consumers, and policy-makers (additional information on CRISM available here: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/44597.html).

This position will work with CRISM’s National Coordinating Center, playing a key role in ensuring that CRISM’s research findings are accessible, engaging, and impactful across stakeholder audiences at a national scale. These stakeholders include clinicians, policymakers, researchers, and people with lived and living experience of substance use.

Key Responsibilities

• Knowledge Translation & Product Development

• Design and develop high-quality, user-friendly knowledge translation products (e.g., infographics, summaries, briefs, evidence tables, toolkits) based on CRISM’s national research outputs.

• Collaborate with project teams and content experts to ensure KT products are evidence-informed, accurate, and tailored to the needs of various stakeholders.

• Coordinate layout, formatting, and branding of materials in line with CRISM’s visual identity.

• Ensure products are bilingual for national accessibility

• Communications & Engagement

• Lead the development of national CRISM communications to network members, including semi-annual newsletters highlighting project updates, key findings, opportunities for collaboration, and upcoming events.

• Contribute to identifying and developing relationships with potential new CRISM stakeholders

• Support engagement with Node members and stakeholders through email communications, social media content, and other digital outreach strategies.

• Contribute and update content on CRISM’s national website and communication platforms, in coordination with web support staff.

• Dissemination Strategy & Conference Coordination

• Identify relevant national and international conferences, workshops, and knowledge-sharing platforms where CRISM’s work can be presented.

• Coordinate submission of abstracts and preparation of conference materials (e.g., posters, presentations).

• Support national project teams in developing dissemination plans and tracking uptake of KT products.

• Support to National Coordination Center

• Assist and facilitate with logistics during national events

• Alternative for National Coordination Center coordinator during CRISM internal meetings in case of absence

• Support some administrative work associated with network meetings, which may include, but is not limited to, recording meeting minutes.

• Support the development of National Coordination Center materials for presentations, etc.

Job Requirements

• Master's degree in Communications, Health Promotion, or a related social/health sciences discipline, combined with a minimum of three (3) years of related research and/or community development experience, preferably in the mental health and/or social services sector.
• Basic research skills such as literature reviews and environmental scans are required
• Demonstrated experience and expertise is required in the areas of health equity, community engagement, and/or working with marginalized populations in a health system or point of care setting.
• Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills, with the ability to multi-task, produce and coordinate projects to tight deadlines
• Development of work plans, logic models, and frameworks, as well as experience with training/capacity building design and delivery
• Experience working within an implementation science framework or other evidence informed implementation or quality improvement framework
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of equity, inclusivity, respect and social justice
• Demonstrated success working within interprofessional teams and in partnerships with groups such as service providers, people with lived experience and decision-makers
• Demonstrated ability to work with stakeholders and clients of diverse backgrounds is necessary, as demonstrated ability to work in collaboration with diverse sectors and marginalized communities
• Familiarity with Ontario’s Mental Health and Addiction system/services
• Experience in assisting teams with system change initiatives through facilitation, problem solving, decision making and conflict resolution
• Experience working with First Nation, Inuit and Metis population
• Bilingual in English and French

Other Skills

• Strong PC software skills including experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel), internet search and an ability to learn new programs quickly