Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders

Tenure-track opportunities for exceptional international early-career researchers

Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders is a $120 million investment to help institutions bring more internationally based early-career researchers (ECRs) to Canada. For each Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada awarded, institutions may request an additional award for six years to recruit an ECR to a tenure-track position.

The ECRs must be recruited within the same strategic priority area as the Research Chair, but need not be in the same discipline or research field, nor be aligned with the same federal funding agency.

Extension of the Emerging Leaders award for an additional six years, at the same yearly amount, will be contingent on confirming that the person recruited as an ECR has progressed in their academic career and that the research conducted since recruitment has been transformational and translational and has garnered partners.

The Emerging Leaders award is granted after the chairholder and the nominating institution formally accept the Research Chair award. Institutions will manage the recruitment and nomination of an ECR for a tenure-track position, in compliance with the Research Chairs requirements.

Only candidates who are internationally based (both working and residing outside of Canada) when the Research Chair is accepted are eligible. Successful nominees will be expected to start their positions at the host institution on a full-time basis within 12 months of acceptance by the chairholder (please see individual ads for more details).

Following UBC's announcement that it was awarded nine Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada in the first intake of the competition, we are now recruiting for nine Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders.

UBC’s Emerging Leader opportunities align with the Government of Canada’s strategic priority areas. Depending on the position, research programs may contribute to one or more of the following for positions relating to intake 1:

Health, including biotechnology - 5 Positions
Environment, climate resilience and the Arctic - 1 position
Food and water security - 1 position
Democratic and community resilience - 1 position
Manufacturing and advanced materials – 1 position

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The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a leading global research university, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities worldwide. UBC is proud to nurture and transform the lives of more than 70,000 students from Canada and over 140 countries at our two major campus locations, in Vancouver and Kelowna. Our researchers and scholars are pushing the boundaries of knowledge in an amazing breadth of disciplines. By working across disciplines and building partnerships with universities, industry, government, and communities worldwide, researchers at our two campuses and affiliated teaching hospitals are generating ideas, discoveries, and innovations that improve lives in British Columbia, Canada, and beyond.

The UBC vision is to inspire people, ideas, and actions for a better world.

With comprehensive support — from immigration and housing, to childcare and community integration — UBC is a place where your professional ambitions and personal aspirations can truly thrive.

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Positions will be posted below once they are finalized. More positions may be available following intake two results.