Company Description

UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care. UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine. UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

UHN’s vision is to build A Healthier World and it’s only because of the talented and dedicated people who work here that we are continually bringing that vision closer to reality.

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Job Description

Union: Non-Union
Number of Vacancies: 1
Site: Toronto General Hospital
Department: Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research
Reports to: Manager
Work Model: Hybrid
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Status: Temporary Full-Time
Closing Date: November 7th, 2025

The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research is a collaborative research and education program that spans across UHN, the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. It seeks to provide the world with new diagnoses, treatments, and tools to help people prevent, manage, and survive the devastating consequences of heart failure. It also provides global leadership in the cardiac field and offers multiple research and clinical educational opportunities and training. As part of this Centre, the Ted Rogers Computational Program (TRCP) is currently recruiting a highly qualified Clinical Research Analyst to conduct systematic literature reviews and clinical practice guidelines.

Duties:

Lead evidence syntheses

• Lead end-to-end scoping reviews; plan and deliver related systematic or rapid reviews as needed.
• Develop review protocols (e.g., objectives, eligibility criteria, PICO/PEO), and coordinate registration where applicable.
• Design database and grey-literature search strategies in partnership with a health sciences librarian; document searches and updates.

Screening, extraction, and appraisal

• Oversee dual-reviewer screening, conflict resolution, and PRISMA flow documentation.
• Develop and quality-check data extraction forms; supervise data abstraction and cleaning.
• Conduct risk-of-bias/quality appraisal using fit-for-purpose tools (e.g., for interventions, diagnostics, prognosis, or observational designs).

Analysis and synthesis

• Produce evidence maps, narrative syntheses, and (where appropriate) pairwise or network meta-analyses with sensitivity and subgroup analyses.
• Generate evidence tables and concise summaries of findings; assess certainty/quality of evidence and key limitations.

Guideline support (as applicable)

• Translate review findings into clinical questions and draft evidence-to-decision materials.
• Support panel deliberations, consensus methods, and drafting of recommendations and rationales.

Project management & collaboration

• Build and manage workplans, timelines, and milestones; provide regular written status updates and dashboards.
• Coordinate data flow and collaboration across internal teams and external partners/sites; schedule and facilitate meetings.
• Train and mentor junior staff on methods, tools, and good documentation practices.

Reporting & dissemination

• Prepare clear methods/results write-ups for presentations, manuscripts, and stakeholder materials; develop slides, figures, and decision aids.
• Incorporate reviewer, panel, and stakeholder feedback; track revisions and version history.

Quality, ethics, and reproducibility

• Maintain reproducible workflows (audit trails, codebooks, version control) and adhere to institutional policies on privacy, data security, and ethics.
• Implement QA checks at each stage to ensure methodological rigour and traceability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Clinical Epidemiology, Health Services Research, or a related field; MSc preferred (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience conducting evidence syntheses (e.g., scoping, systematic, or rapid reviews) in a clinical or public health setting.
• Proven ability to plan and execute end-to-end review workflows: protocol development, search strategy coordination, screening, data extraction, quality appraisal, and reporting (PRISMA).
• Working knowledge of risk-of-bias/quality appraisal tools appropriate to study design (e.g., RoB 2, ROBINS-I, QUADAS-2, QUIPS) and familiarity with frameworks for certainty/strength of evidence (e.g., GRADE).
• Experience generating evidence tables, summary of findings, and clear narrative syntheses; ability to support basic meta-analysis (or interpret results provided by a statistician).
• Proficiency with review and reference-management tools (e.g., Covidence/DistillerSR/EPPI-Reviewer/Rayyan; EndNote/Zotero) and strong Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain methods and findings to non-specialists.
• Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail; able to work independently and collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to client service and an inclusive workplace—able to work effectively with diverse perspectives and stakeholders.

Additional Information

Why join UHN?

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

• Competitive offer packages
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP https://hoopp.com/)
• Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel, restaurants, parking, phone plans, auto insurance discounts, on-site gyms, etc.)

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN's attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

UHN uses email to communicate with selected candidates. Please ensure you check your email regularly.

Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.

UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.