Director, Health System Planning and Strategic Priorities
Vancouver Coastal Health
- Vancouver, BC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support the overall strategic direction of the Transformation Team and promotes and instills a need for a positive change climate across the organization.
- Utilize seasoned facilitation and consulting skills, applies expert knowledge in the successful design, planning, implementation, integration and evaluation of organization planning, priority and change management initiatives.
- Co-facilitate strategic planning sessions and workshops with the VCH Board and Senior Executive Team.
- Oversee the annual health system planning process and, with key partners, is responsible for the development of the Service Plan, Annual Service Plan Report, bilateral reporting and alignment of VCH’s key priorities to Ministry mandated deliverables.
- Lead the collaboration across regional programs to understand current service delivery, challenges, and future direction, in alignment with provincial strategic direction, Accreditation Canada standards and required organizational practices, and program/service area priorities.
- Facilitate strategy deployment discussions with Regional Program Planning Leaders and Strategy Deployment Directors across VCH.
- Identify barriers and develops and activates mitigation strategies to ensure initiatives and projects remain on track and moving forward to completion and are aligned with the organization’s strategic priorities and long-term financial plans; advises the Vice President and Senior Executive Team.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Master’s degree in Health or Business Administration or related discipline, plus a minimum of ten (10) years’ experience in a senior leadership capacity in a large, complex unionized environment, preferably health care or public sector, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Demonstrates expert ability to develop and implement plans and strategies and to identify and implement transformational and business initiatives.
- Ability to synthesize the multiple expectations placed on the organization, from both Government and within VCH, and express them in a way that they are cohesive, understandable, and actionable.
- Ability to consolidate many complex concepts into a compelling and coherent strategy.
- Understands organization’s ability and readiness for change. Promotes a shared vision of transformation with accountability to achieve outcomes.
- Exceptional analytical skills and decision-making abilities. Strong strategic thinker and systems approach to problem solving.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management principles and methodologies and ability to coach team members on these skills.
- Excellent facilitation skills within a senior management environment.
- Effectively communicates both verbally and in writing to lead, negotiate, influence, and collaborate with a variety of partners and leadership both internal and external to the organization.
- Proven leadership and management skills with an excellent sense of corporate priority and a strong business acumen.
- Demonstrates expertise and leadership in managing and overseeing cross-organizational activities to completion.
- Effectively problem-solves with an organizational perspective to incorporate the organization’s systems and strategies when developing viable solutions to organizational problems.
- Exhibits a strong understanding of the complex health care environment to elicit credibility with all levels of the organization.
- Ability to foster collaboration and effective working relationships with partners that promote cooperative goals and contribute to an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect.
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
- Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan
- Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
- Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families
- Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers
- Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff