Posting active date: 22/1/2025
Name of corporate partner: Holland Bloorview
Application deadline: 2/28/2025
Corporate partner contact name and email: Mark Dennis: [email protected]
Location: Toronto – in office
Job title: 2025 Ward Summer Research Student – Evdokia Anagnostou
Job type: Internship (temporary full time)
Reporting to: Evdokia Anagnostou
Department: Bloorview Research Institute
Length (contract/internship): 12 weeks
Salary or range: $17.20 per hour
Start date: 5/5/2025
End date: 7/25/2025
Exclusive to Pathways Alumni? No
About the organization:
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada’s largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital and is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. It has ranked amongst Canada’s top 40 research hospitals for more than a decade. Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto’s Top Employers, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People and Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.
Job Summary:
The Ward Summer Student Research program provides an opportunity to experience a unique interdisciplinary mentorship experience. Successful incumbents will have opportunities to work with their mentor on a research project, attend our team lab meetings and participate in the annual Ward Summer Student Research Day where they will have an opportunity to present their findings to the organization and its visitors. At the Autism Research Centre (ARC) at Holland Bloorview, we do research to understand the biology and symptoms of autism/neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), and to develop novel interventions for children and adults with autism and related NDDs. The successful candidate will work on our large Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Disorders Network (POND) Study. The POND study explores how genes, brains and bodies are different if a person has an ASD or ADHD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or Intellectual Disability or other NDDs.
Job responsibility:
- Data gathering, entry, analysis and report writing
- Literature search/review
- General administrative and clerical functions to support projects
- Development of program materials and assistance with presentations and teaching
- Interaction with clients, families and staff of the program, and other program’s staff throughout the organizations
- Additional duties assigned as required
Experience & Qualification requirements:
- Students must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree program or enrolled in medical school
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 80% or over
- Able to utilize skills learned in academic studies in this position
- Able to communicate effectively with staff and clients
- Demonstrated understanding of a Family-Centered Care service delivery model
- Ability to work collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a team and be a team player
- Shows accuracy and attention to detail
- Able to organize work to ensure deadlines are met and follow-up is complete
- Has working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint & Excel
- Applies data management skills and principles
Please consult this webpage for more information.
How to apply:
The full application process can be found here.
Please fill out this form by February 7th ahead of your application: 2024-25 COS RASI mentees.
Apply here once form is completed.
Please submit the following in one (1) pdf file in the order indicated below:
1. A copy of your most recent curriculum vitae (CV)
2. A copy of your most recent unofficial university transcript
3. A list of two referees (recent professors, previous employers) who may be contacted to provide a letter of recommendation in the event you are shortlisted for the position. Please include the full name of referee, title/position, name of institution, institutional email address and phone number