Research Assistant /Technician 3- Nutritional Assessment

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants

Job Profile

Non Union Hourly - Research Assistant /Technician 3

Job Title

Research Assistant /Technician 3- Nutritional Assessment

Department

Devlin Lab | Department of Paediatrics | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range

$28.10 - $33.14 CAD Hourly

Posting End Date

November 26, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

November 30, 2026

This offer is conditional upon successful completion of a Criminal Record Check.

Note: Only the Full Time Compensation Range is displayed on the job posting details advertised on the UBC Career sites.

Job Description

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. 

 

Job Summary

The incumbent Nutritional Assessment Research Assistant will be responsible for a range of tasks related to longitudinal clinical research in the Panagiotopoulos and Devlin labs whose focus is on childhood diabetes, cardiometabolic complications, and obesity. The Nutritional Assessment Research Assistant role includes leading dietary intake data collection and analysis, ongoing ethics renewals, study coordination (including communication with other centres across Canada/North America), and data entry and collection.

 

The incumbent is required to conduct all research activities in an ethical manner, suited to the proper activities of the University of British Columbia and to the professional organizations governing the activities of the institution and all other investigators. Any procedures undertaken as part of a trial must be accurate and must accurately reflect the work performed. Strict confidentiality of all study matters must be adhered to. The incumbent’s research activities are accountable to the Principal Investigator(s).

Organizational Status
The incumbent will report to and receive direction from the Principal Investigator, Dr. Angela Devlin, as well as her close collaborator and co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Dina Panagiotopoulos.

 

This position requires working both independently and in cooperation with hospital physicians, residents, nurses, research staff at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), and other staff at Children’s and Women’s Health Centre.  The incumbent will collaborate and work with external staff at participating organizations, hospitals and collaborating laboratories located at different sites nationally and internationally. The workspace is located in the Childhood Diabetes Laboratories in BCCHR of Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC Campus.

Work Performed

The position involves guiding participants through reporting dietary intake as part of clinical research and will include data collection, management and analysis, subject follow-up, and assist with ongoing ethics renewals.

 

Specific duties include:

• Collect dietary intake data and supplement use during clinical visits with participants

• Instruct participants on reporting portion sizes

• Responsible for study follow-up activities

• Responsible for data management using ASA24 and ESHA software

• Analyze dietary date and estimate nutrient intakes using ASA24 and ESHA software

• Work closely with study Principal Investigators, on study start-up activities.

• Assist with the drafting of study specific consents, assents and other required study documents.

• Assist Research Associate with the timely RISe submission of amendments as it pertains to collection of dietary data.

• Responsible for maintaining REB records and associated documents