Senior Analyst, Research Strategic Initiatives (Security)

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Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs):

36

Job Family:

Analytics and Reporting

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Research Strategic Initiatives

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

N/A

Date Posted:

May 08, 2025

Applications must be received BEFORE:

May 19, 2025

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

Non-Union Grade NC8 - 35 hrs

Salary Range:

$94,214.00 - $117,768.00

Position Purpose

The Senior Analyst supports the Research Security Directorate and more broadly the OVPRI mission by implementing and advancing the inaugural research security program and building capacity to address the requirements from provincial and federal governments. The incumbent ensures precise and reliable strategic and technical information is available to stakeholders (including researchers, research advisors and research administrators) and partners, and has a solid understanding of the newly designed institutional research security model, performance indicators, business operations and priorities.

Finally, the incumbent provides guidance and advice to clients (based on in-house research security designed tools, commercialized software and tools) in order to align with government (federal and provincial) research security requirements.

Specific Accountabilities

• Risk Assessment: Provide professional expertise to the research community with respect to risk assessment techniques and processes, educate the research community to anticipate risk and issues in plans and requirements and to take appropriate action to mitigate and resolve them.
• Research analysis: Provides professional expertise, develop recommendations for internal research security policy, processes, risk mitigation strategies and practices to comply with government enacted research security requirements.
• Data analysis: Provides quantitative processes | data analysis and prepares documentation for upper management and faculty research advisors | administrators which explain data sources, trends, and comparisons related to strategic research performance indicators.
• Design: Designs complete solutions to complex research security problems (including workflows, conceptual and logical data models for the data warehouse environment, static and dynamic reporting tools and data visualization techniques) applicable in a wide array of university operations using specialized software and technologies unique to the nascent field of research security.
• Development and Testing: Collaborates with IT services and external vendors to develop and implement business intelligence projects and complex programs including business needs assessment, scoping solutions, identifying data sources and business rules, evaluating the technical and operational feasibility of solutions proposed and performs integration tests to ensure correct functionality of solution. Evaluates and diagnoses the impact of proposed solutions on existing systems, ensuring their coherence with those already in place.

Knowledge, Experience, Competencies, and Skills

• A master’s degree in Biomedical engineering, Computer science, Political Sciences or related field, preferably with a strong research background or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Five (5) years’ experience in open-source information or intelligence gathering, and analysis.
• Ability to effectively apply high level critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work in a flexible, on and off-campus hybrid environment.
• Ability to identify issues and take proactive action including adjusting to changing priorities as necessary.
• Bilingualism – English and French with strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Excellent analytic skills and a detail-oriented approach to issues and analyses.
• Experience advising and briefing senior managers, especially academic leadership.
• Experience in creating analytical and advisory products from diverse information sources.
• Experience working in a complex multi-stakeholder and fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and judgement to assess and balance institutional, individual, and national needs.
• Knowledge of geopolitics, national security, research security, cyber security, and the threat environment.
• Knowledge of emerging Canadian and international research security standards, policies and programs.
• Knowledge of the academic environment and experience working with researchers.
• Knowledge of policies, guidelines and granting/contracting practices of federal and provincial funding agencies and departments, as well as granting foundations.
• Proven knowledge of corporate/financial analysis or due diligence and ability to utilize various open-source platforms, such as Strider, Kharon, Dimensions, etc. to conduct a range of searching is an asset.
• Proven track record of effective information synthesis and knowledge translation and dissemination skills including publications, public speaking, science communication, opinion pieces, writing briefings, grant writing, etc.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 products.

*This position may be eligible for a telework arrangement. Learn more about our telework guidelines click here

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

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