Coordinator, HEALTH-DIMENSIONS Programme, Faculty of Medicine

at  Oulun Yliopisto

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 3,600 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
We are now looking for a full-time fixed term Coordinator in the research programme “Multidimensional Big Data and Life-Course Health: from Molecules to Society” (HEALTH-DIMENSIONS). The programme forms a part of our national profiling actions funded by the Research Council of Finland. HEALTH-DIMENSIONS is an interdisciplinary research programme led by the Faculties of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Oulu. The programme also covers other faculties and strengthens the university’s interdisciplinary top research cluster in prevention of the molecular and societal mechanisms underpinning the patterns of multimorbidity.
HEALTH-DIMENSIONS will engage research and impact activities in health and data sciences to define the molecular, social and societal nature of multimorbidity through the lifecourse. HEALTH-DIMENSIONS will engage high quality research and clinical implementation grounded on very large datasets (e.g. FINNGEN, Northern Finland Birth Cohort, national social and healthcare registers, electronic health records, imaging) and experimental research.

• Planning and implementing the programme activities (promoting inter- and multidisciplinary research and other activities) together with the programme leaders, steering committee, research groups, the recruited researchers, and the wider university community. Taking care of the annual reporting and the indicator follow-ups.
• Assisting and organizing the recruitment processes together with the human resources office.
• Liaising with the profiling programs administration, coordinators, faculties (research coordinators and managers), participating research units, Centers for multidisciplinary research and the University of Oulu Graduate School (UniOGS).
• Supporting the integration of HEALTH-DIMENSIONS within the strategy of the faculties and the University of Oulu.
• Supporting integration with National and International universities.
• Supporting integration and liaison with social and healthcare services including wellbeing service counties.
• Assisting and planning the program’s financial and budgetary aspects together with the programme leader, steering committee, and the controllers.
• Communications planning and implementation (website updates, PR, meeting minutes). Advertising and representing the programme in Finland and beyond.
• Organizing and participating in national and international meetings and science policy events related to the program.
• Organizing the programme management board and steering committee meetings and taking care of the meeting minutes.
• Other duties associated with managing interdisciplinary research initiatives.