Research Review Specialist

**This position can be fully remote or hybrid, if located near a Mitacs office in Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver. Please ensure that you apply for only one post close to your location.**

Do you want to be part of a mission driven organization shaping Canada’s innovation future? Do you thrive in collaborative environments where creativity, continuous improvement, and strategic thinking are valued? Are you motivated by work that strengthens Canada’s competitiveness and delivers meaningful impact for communities and businesses?

At Mitacs, we take a talent first approach to building Canada’s innovation capacity. We connect researchers with organizations across every region of the country to help solve pressing challenges and accelerate economic growth. By enabling business academic collaboration and supporting the development of highly skilled talent, we contribute to a resilient, future ready Canadian economy.

Guided by our values — Impact, Integrity, Collaboration, Excellence, and Talent — we work with partners nationwide to advance research, commercialization, and innovation.

At Mitacs, you become part of a team committed to empowering Canadian talent, fostering meaningful partnerships, and driving innovation that supports Canada’s long-term competitiveness. If you’re inspired by big ideas and passionate about creating national impact, we encourage you to apply.

Research Review Specialist

Reporting to the Director, Research and Innovation, the primary responsibility of the Research Review Specialist is to support Mitacs’s Research Review Officers and their Managers in maintaining the timely review of applications submitted to Mitacs’s various programs.

Responsibilities:

Review proposals submitted under the Globalink program:

• Apply adjudication criteria in a consistent manner to inform funding decisions and ensure completion of reviews according to service standards.

Support the operations of the Quality in Research and Innovation team:

• Complete and update reviewer profiles in Mitacs’s peer review database to support the effective identification of subject matter experts for proposals that require peer review.
• Assist with coordinating quality assurance review audits for proposals that have received Mitacs funding.
• Assist with documenting information to inform various aspects of Mitacs’s review process.
• Other tasks, as required.

Competencies:

• Ability to work through ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and comfortable with change.
• Executes tasks to a high standard with attention to detail.
• Capable of working independently and collaboratively in a distributed, virtual team setting.

• Adheres to Mitacs values.

Required Skills and Expertise:

• PhD level research experience is required (completed PhD is preferred). Priority will be given to applicants with expertise in Artificial Intelligence.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English (required), in French (asset).
• Exceptional critical thinking, problem solving, and time management skills.
• Ability to grasp topics across a wide range of academic disciplines, and to clearly synthesize and communicate complex information to those who are not subject matter experts.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion and reconciliation are strong commitments at Mitacs: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - Mitacs. We believe a diverse workforce comprised of individuals with different lived experiences, ideas, strengths, and backgrounds (e.g., gender identities and expressions, Indigeneity, race, abilities, sexual orientation, and other identities) are crucial to our success. We welcome everyone to apply and encourage you to connect with us if you require accommodations during the recruitment process.

Hiring Range: $55,350 - $70,110

Hiring and Salary Range Transparency 

Typically, employees are hired, transferred, or promoted within the salary range, specifically between the minimum and midpoint in the hiring range.

The salary range refers to the range of base salaries for a given position, encompassing the minimum and maximum amounts. The midpoint of the range is positioned approximately halfway between the minimum and maximum, indicating a fully qualified employee with comprehensive job knowledge and experience for the role.

Only in rare and exceptional circumstances, where a candidate has the experience, skills, and expertise that far exceed those required for the position, would we consider paying above the hiring range for this role.