Executive Director, Strategic Development and Real Estate

Fraser Health (FH) is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to nearly 2 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. The Fraser region is home to 32 First Nations communities and 6 Métis Chartered communities. Our team of nearly 48,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: better health, best in health care.

The Vice President, Strategic Capital Investments and Facilities is seeking an innovative and results-driven individual for the Executive Director, Strategic Development and Real Estate role at Fraser Health. This is a pivotal opportunity that oversees the strategic planning of senior leadership and ensures performance excellence for Fraser Health Facilities management planning and capital projects.

The Executive Director will be accountable for enhancing efficiencies, managing risks, and improving quality and service through continuous team engagement, process improvement and innovation, in accordance with the Ministry of Health’s goals.

If you're ready to make a transformative impact on healthcare, apply now to join our innovative team at Fraser Health!

Fraser Health values diversity in the work force and strives to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:
The Executive Director is accountable for providing senior leadership, planning and direction of Strategic Real Estate and Land Development of Fraser Health Facilities including Leasing and Property Management.

Oversees senior leadership strategic planning and direction, and ensures performance excellence for Fraser Health Facilities management planning and capital projects. The position is responsible and accountable for achieving improvements in efficiencies and risk, quality and service in the designated portfolio(s) through the continuous pursuit of process team engagement and effectiveness, standardization, innovation, process improvement and stewardship and service metrics in accordance with established executive and MoH goals.

Develops and facilitates strong collaborative partnerships with members of the Senior Executive Team at Fraser Health, private sector partners, and government agencies.

Master's Degree and/or professional designation in a relevant discipline supplemented by fifteen (15) years' recent, related experience in progressively more complex and senior management/leadership roles in a large multi-site organization with responsibilities for the planning and development of capital and strategic plans and projects, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

COMPETENCIES:

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Demonstrated working knowledge of appropriate legislation, by-laws and relevant codes and provincial/national standards.
• Sound business acumen and ability to develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with business partners as well as other external stakeholders.
• Proven ability to define/amalgamate diverse organizational requirements, financial parameters, resolve issues, identify and mitigate operational project risks, and develop long-range plans.
• Proven senior facility project management expertise including the ability to manage in areas such as consultant contracts, capital implementation, construction and renovation projects, labour relations, contracted services, capital planning and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage strategic planning and design projects.
• Proven initiative, judgement and decision-making capabilities; demonstrated ability to lead, plan, manage, organize, and problem solve.
• Superior conflict resolution, negotiation and people skills.
• Demonstrated senior leadership in roles to lead and move forward complex organizational change issues.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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