Administrative Assistant - Slaight Centre Research

CAMH is currently seeking a full-time, contract (12 months) Administrative Assistant to provide senior administrative support across the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre and the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition. Reporting to the Slaight Centre director, this position supports all centre directors, operations managers, and their teams, ensuring the smooth and effective day-to-day operations of each Centre and consistency with CAMH administrative processes and requirements.

The successful candidate will provide high-level assistance on a wide range of confidential organizational, program and research-related projects, activities and issues, and will balance competing priorities across centres with minimal supervision. 

This position provides shared administrative support to two research centres at CAMH:

The Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre is one of several centres of Innovation at CAMH, focused on neurodevelopmental disabilities and mental health. Its work spans research excellence, clinical innovation, education and training, and knowledge exchange. The focus population is adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities, along with their families and caregivers.

The Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition is a clinical research program within the Complex Mental Illness program at CAMH, focused on treating psychosis and severe mental illness in youth from the late teens through early adulthood. Its work spans the development of new treatments, enhancement of early detection efforts, and clinical brain research, in close collaboration with a number of other programs and services.