Director, Special Projects (Full Time, 2 Year Term )
Vancouver Coastal Health
- Vancouver, BC
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Lead a project team by setting priorities and providing values based leadership so that team members can achieve the best results possible.
- Lead the development and implementation of innovative and creative approaches, opportunities, initiatives, and projects aimed at supporting the implementation of minimum nurse to patient ratios.
- Create project plans and promote effective project management including establishing project charters, objectives, timelines, and critical path, while collaborating with key partners across the organization, facilitation of project activities, progress monitoring, problem resolution, and recommendations to senior management team.
- Provide best practice expertise to VCH and partner organizations through strategic and operational planning, research, evaluation, forecasting/model development, complex feasibility studies, and business case development.
- Ensure that effective processes are in place to assess project risks, identify risk mitigation strategies and monitor risk throughout the life cycle of the project.
- Sets priorities and assigns work and monitors to ensure teams meet deadlines and objectives.
- Fosters effective relationships across VCH to maintain sponsorship support for project initiatives and activities, keep key partners aware of project status, and create partnerships and opportunities for development of new projects.
- Live our organization’s values in everything that you do.
- Masters degree in Health Services Administration, Business Administration or related masters degree, with more than 10 years’ recent, related experience that includes healthcare budgeting, managing strategic and operational projects, and facilitating and managing consultation processes with a wide range of stakeholder groups (including the public, senior and middle management, physicians and staff).
- Current registration with relevant professional College/Association, if applicable.
- Demonstrated commitment to on-going learning and professional development.
- Fosters collaboration and effective working relationships with stakeholders that promote cooperative goals and contribute to an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect.
- Inspires a shared vision and aligns performance goals and objectives for team and individuals to ensure match with strategy while maintaining group cohesiveness, motivation, commitment and effectiveness.
- Applies superior conflict management skills and expertise to persuade and negotiate effective resolution of issues/disputes.
- Displays comprehensive knowledge of project management principles and methodologies and ability to coach team members on these skills.
- Uses sound business acumen to manage the fiscal resources of assigned projects/services in a manner that is financially responsible and consistent with overall goals of the organization.
- Maintains a thorough understanding of available resources for projects and applicable stakeholder groups, provides feedback and detailed analysis on project processes and makes recommendations as required.
- Utilizes initiative, vision, independent thinking and creative problem-solving abilities to implement project plans and realize project completion.
- Employs excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively present information to relevant stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Works independently and effectively under time pressure to meet deadlines, balance work priorities and resolve problems in a timely manner.
- 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