Research Specialist - TCOM

About the role

The Research Specialist supports the organization by coordinating projects, schedules, and reporting across all teams. This role ensures that organizational initiatives are well-structured, on track, and aligned with priorities. While not initially supervising staff, the Project Management Team Lead helps set consistent practices for project management and may grow into a supervisory role over Project Managers as the team develops.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a central point of coordination for cross-team projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and tracking tools.
• Monitor progress and provide regular updates and reports to leadership.
• Collaborate closely with all teams to align efforts, resources, and communications.
• Support the development of project management tools, templates, and SOPs.
• Facilitate meetings and ensure follow-up actions are completed.
• Contribute to organizational projects beyond core duties, such as event logistics or communications.
• Uses subject matter and best practices knowledge to perform lab and/or research-related duties and tasks.
• Works independently to assist with project design.
• Solves complex problems relating to the administration of projects, including planning new procedures, adapting existing procedures to the needs of the project, and making significant contributions to methodology.
• Guides data collection, evaluation and analysis.
• Designs and manages databases.
• Writes reports, articles and manuscripts.
• Presents research findings at meetings and conferences, as well as to funding agencies.
• Conducts literature reviews.
• Develops and maintains liaisons and effective working relations with groups and individuals, agencies, and the public to encourage cooperative management strategies or to develop information and interpret findings.

Qualifications

• Education: Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
• Certifications: Experience with Microsoft Office 365 and project management tools (e.g., Planner, Asana, Trello). Experience coordinating programs, trainings, or projects strongly preferred.

Preferred Competencies

• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in reporting and tracking.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Organizational skills.
• Vocal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.