Jobs at The University of British Columbia

Supervises and performs electrical maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, installation, and fire protection system testing across student housing facilities. Organizes trade crews, assigns work, trains apprentices, responds to emergencies, prepares estimates, orders materials, maintains records, and ensures compliance with electrical codes, safety regulations, permits, and university policies. Serves as the Field Safety Representative and communicates with customers and departmental stakeholders.

Provides administrative coordination for the UBC Dietetics Program, supporting student admissions, graduation, placements, communications, events, appointments, financial processing, records, scheduling, calendars, and routine laboratory operations. Maintains program systems and documentation, reconciles financial information, coordinates agreements and appointments, supports events and equipment servicing, responds to inquiries, and recommends improvements to recurring administrative processes.

Leads university payroll and benefits operations, controls, compliance, reporting, reconciliations, audits, process improvements, and system implementations. Manages approximately 25 staff through team leads, ensures statutory and contractual compliance, oversees payroll controls and security, resolves complex issues, supports collective bargaining, and collaborates with Finance, HR, Tax, Risk, auditors, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Leads payroll operations for a large, complex, unionized workforce. Oversees payroll accuracy, compliance, statutory filings, reconciliations, internal controls, risk management, team leadership, labour relations support, Workday configuration, automation, reporting, and continuous improvement. Acts as a senior payroll subject matter expert and escalation point while partnering with Finance, Human Resources, IT, unions, auditors, government agencies, and university leadership.

Provides complex administrative support for nursing student clinical placements. Coordinates prerequisite and compliance tracking, training registration, placement agreements, calendars, surveys, course materials, events, records, payments, and stakeholder communications. Maintains accurate tracking systems, resolves routine issues, supports student inquiries, and works with faculty, staff, healthcare partners, University Counsel, and external placement sites.

Administers university benefit plans, provides benefits guidance and support, resolves plan and claims issues, maintains benefits information and HR systems, coordinates communications and special programs, analyzes benefit data, supports bargaining and surveys, and assists with implementing new benefits programs. The role also guides benefits administration staff and ensures compliance with policies, collective agreements, plan documents, and legislation.

Coordinates complex pediatric oncology clinical trials and registries, including protocol implementation, participant data and sample collection, database and documentation development, regulatory compliance, monitoring visits, audit responses, and adverse-event reporting. Supervises and trains junior research staff, supports quality improvement, liaises with investigators, clinical teams, sponsors, and external collaborators, and maintains accurate, confidential study records while operating independently under applicable ethical and Good Clinical Practice standards.

Provides transactional HR support for staff, students, and faculty, including appointments, promotions, salary changes, onboarding, offboarding, records maintenance, attendance tracking, work permit monitoring, and recruitment assistance. Coordinates clinical faculty appointment processes and committee meetings, maintains confidential personnel data, prepares reports and spreadsheets, supports HR policies and projects, and ensures accurate payroll, funding, benefits, and employment records.

Implements established machine learning, artificial intelligence, and statistical methods for large-scale neuroimaging research. Performs data preparation, quality control, feature extraction, multimodal data integration, workflow maintenance, troubleshooting, and computational support on local and high-performance systems. Modifies scripts, documents analytical procedures and outputs, and escalates complex issues. The role primarily supports the CentileBrain precision neuroscience project and may assign tasks to students.

Coordinates Indigenous Strategic Plan programs and projects, including committee management, timelines, research, consultations, workshops, reporting, and implementation systems. The role evaluates requests, develops recommendations, facilitates stakeholder engagement, and ensures OISI programming aligns with strategic goals. It requires discretion, cultural sensitivity, strong organization, communication, facilitation, research, and problem-solving skills when working with Indigenous communities, university stakeholders, and external partners.

Provides strategic financial management for Faculty of Medicine portfolios, including budgeting, forecasting, multi-year planning, variance analysis, reporting, financial modeling, cost-benefit analysis, and funding coordination. Develops financial tools, processes, performance measures, and reporting standards; advises senior leaders and departments; supports finance staff; manages projects; and guides complex financial decisions across multiple units.

Conducts applied economics research involving complex data collection, scraping, cleaning, storage, analysis, literature reviews, empirical testing, reporting, and presentation. Collaborates with faculty, supports grant applications and project development, oversees research operations, and coordinates undergraduate research assistants. The role requires quantitative skills, programming proficiency, independent problem-solving, and interest in pursuing a PhD in economics or a related field.

Designs, implements, configures, and supports cybersecurity systems and infrastructure. Analyzes requirements, develops solutions, troubleshoots production systems, performs patching, manages vulnerabilities, documents procedures, and coordinates with technical teams, stakeholders, and vendors. Provides Tier 2 support, contributes to enterprise service enhancements, creates proof-of-concept environments, trains staff, and mentors less experienced analysts. Requires independent judgment, strong cybersecurity knowledge, and experience administering Linux, Windows, virtualization, databases, networking, and automation technologies.

The Laboratory Manager leads operations for a biomedical research laboratory focused on iPSC models, CRISPR screening, synthetic biology, and molecular recording. Responsibilities include managing experiments, supplies, safety, ethics, biosafety, grants, budgets, SOPs, training, project timelines, collaborations, manuscripts, and technology translation. The role provides scientific and operational leadership, mentors researchers, coordinates institutional and industry partners, and supports research execution and commercialization activities.

Leads strategic communications for a university biotechnology research laboratory. Develops communication plans, content, visual assets, media relations, social media, websites, newsletters, events, and promotional materials. Manages brand standards, communication projects, budgets, timelines, performance metrics, external partnerships, and media inquiries. Translates complex scientific research into accessible messaging, supports student engagement and recruitment, and coordinates staff, trainees, service providers, and campus communications teams.

Leads UBC Athletics and Recreation’s development and alumni engagement strategy, including a $5M–$12M annual fundraising program and multi-year campaign. Cultivates major donors, alumni, corporate partners, and senior university stakeholders; manages gift strategies, donor stewardship, budgets, operations, and alumni activities. Provides fundraising advice to senior leadership and leads a team of up to eight employees while ensuring strategic alignment, compliance, and program growth.

Coordinates student records and enrolment services across registration, academic records, transcripts, graduation, and student information systems. Investigates complex files, interprets policies and regulations, processes records and transactions, supports registration periods and graduation ceremonies, manages requests and correspondence, maintains knowledge resources, and recommends process improvements. The role also provides stakeholder support, presentations, training, reporting, and supervision or orientation of temporary staff and volunteers.

Leads strategic communications for the Faculty of Medicine’s province-wide education portfolio. Develops integrated communications, public affairs, government and stakeholder engagement, digital, internal, media, advocacy, issues management and crisis communications strategies. Advises senior leadership, oversees communications priorities and staff or service providers, coordinates regional stakeholders, manages sensitive information, establishes performance metrics, and protects institutional reputation through proactive and responsive communications.

Leads the Faculty of Medicine’s research, innovation, and public relations communications portfolio. Develops integrated communications, media relations, public affairs, reputation management, and issues-management strategies; advises senior leaders; directs messaging, news releases, events, and external engagement; manages communications staff; builds relationships with university, government, healthcare, industry, and research partners; and establishes performance metrics to evaluate communications impact.

Leads business analysis and systems initiatives for the university’s enterprise Student Information System. Gathers and evaluates requirements, coordinates stakeholders and IT partners, supports system implementations, manages testing and quality assurance, communicates system updates, and provides training and subject-matter expertise. The role also monitors project progress, streamlines processes, manages system access and privacy requirements, develops reports, and promotes secure use of student information.