Strategic Project Leader

Are you seeking a role where you can work strategically with senior leadership & develop/write business plans? Do you pride yourself on accountability and strive to exemplify integrity, resilience, and confidence? If so, we encourage you to read on!

We have an opportunity for a Strategic Project Leader to join our innovative and supportive Home & Community Care Regional Services team! This is an exciting opportunity to assist with implementing projects and initiatives to enhance community services for adults with chronic medical conditions and frailty and maximize independence.

Key highlights of the position include:

• Develop project plans, communication strategies and engagement opportunities
• Lead selected projects and new initiatives from development through to implementation
• Monitor project progress and advise of any risks

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Reporting to the Executive Director, Clinical Operations, the Strategic Project Leader is accountable for providing system-wide leadership in project planning for the designated Fraser Health (FH)-wide program(s) that will result in the enhanced quality of services, integration of services and clinical practice, improved patient/client satisfaction and cost-effective care for Fraser Health and partner organizations. Responsibilities include acting as the strategic liaison between key stakeholders across the continuum of care, leading others toward the achievement of provincial and Fraser Health program goals through effectively communicating the organizational vision, coordinating resources, advancing priorities, and promoting collaboration and commitment. Supports work groups and committees and is the key point person for achieving integration of findings/recommendations. Primary contacts include Executive Sponsors, Program leadership, Directors/Managers, Medical Staff, work group members, and committee members at all levels across the health authority and in other partner organizations (e.g., other Health Authorities, the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions, First Nations Health Authority, and contract/affiliate/non-profit agencies). Provides supervision, leadership, guidance, and support to designated staff.

Master's Degree in Health Administration, Public Health Administration or other relevant discipline, plus seven (7) to ten (10) years' recent, related experience in progressively responsible positions in a large, complex acute care organization including demonstrated ability to manage large-scale project(s), or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

COMPETENCIES:

Professional/Technical Capabilities

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

• Comprehensive applied knowledge of project management principles and methodologies and ability to plan, prioritize and carry out projects.
• Demonstrated clinical management skills in an interdisciplinary matrix reporting environment including clinical health care practice, education and program planning, development, implementation and evaluation.
• In-depth understanding of the applicable clinical program area and the health care system at both the strategic and operational levels.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills.
• Broad knowledge of clinical theory and practice within a client centred model of care.
• Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role in health care.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems efficiently and resourcefully.
• Exceptional analytical skills and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrated organizational, administrative, facilitation and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communication effectively verbally and in writing with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and with changing priorities and deadlines to plan, budget and execute complex project(s) with stringent timelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of budget planning and preparation principles, concepts and methods.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a variety of software applications including word-processing, spreadsheet and database applications and knowledge of Information Systems applications, tools and concepts.
• Ability to lead and manage diverse project teams.

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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