Ethics Coordinator, Animal Care

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**Job Type**:
Employee
**Duration in Months** **(for fixed-term jobs):
25
**Job Family**:
Laboratory Support
**# of Open Positions**:
1
**Faculty/Service - Department**:
Animal Ethics &
Compl. Office
**Campus**:
Roger Guindon Hall
**Union Affiliation**:
SSUO
**Date Posted**:
March 28, 2024
**Closing Date**:
April 08, 2024
**Note**:
Applications will be accepted until 11:
59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above
**Hours per week**:
35
**Salary Grade**:
SSUO Grade 07
**Salary Range**:
$55,245.00 - $69,783.00
**Position Purpose**
Working with the Chair of the Animal Care Committee and reporting to the Director, Research and Program Support, the incumbent coordinates activities and provides support to the University of Ottawa Animal Care Committee (ACC) to help ensure that operations are conducted properly and comply with internal and external standards. The incumbent also provides assistance with animal user training activities.
**In this role, your responsibilities will include**:
- Provide assistance with animal user training activities.
- Provide support with other animal care activities as needed.
- Provide administrative support for the Animal Care Committee, including reminders of meetings with agendas, drafting of meeting minutes, keeping up-to-date lists of animal users and their documented training, and tracking animal use for regulatory reports, and help ensure that information on the animal care website is kept up-to-date and complete.
- Administer animal use protocol submissions to help ensure that they can be reviewed efficiently, and that comments, questions and answers are documented and that responses can be provided to the applicants in a timely manner.
**What you will bring**:
- A diploma in veterinary technology from a recognized community college or CEGEP.
- Experience in laboratory animal science, preferably in an academic setting.
- Working knowledge of Canadian Council on Animal Care standards and of the Animals for Research Act and regulations stemming from it.
- Comprehensive computer skills, including the ability to use word processors (Word), Microsoft Outlook, spreadsheets (Excel), Access and complex relational databases, as well as Topaz-based software used in managing animal use protocols.
- Highly effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
- Service-oriented attitude with strong interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated with strong organizational skills in order to work well on multiple projects and tasks while under pressure.
- Bilingualism - English and French (written and spoken).
**Key Competencies at uOttawa**:
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**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.
**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;
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