Director, Strategic Initiatives Jobs

About The Role
The Director, Strategic Initiatives is responsible for developing and coordinating strategic processes for the Human Resources, Population Health and Pandemic Response portfolio. The Director will use data from quality indicators, financial targets, and research to develop frameworks, systems, and monitoring processes that measure and improve client care or supporting services within Interior Health (IH). The Director will translate provincial mandates and IH-wide direction into operational strategies, while working collaboratively with leaders across the organization to ensure smooth integration into service delivery. The Director will play a key role in the standardization of quality performance and performance monitoring across Human Resources, Population Health and Pandemic Response. The Director supervises staff and provides leadership to staff through coaching, guiding, and modeling key behaviours/strategies.
Some Key Duties

• Provides recommendations for policies and standards based on practice standards, regulatory requirements, provincial direction, solid research, and performance data.
• Works with internal staff resources to develop programs, methodologies, and files for analyzing and presenting data.
• Collects and reviews statistics of services provided to determine effectiveness, consistency, and quality of care/service provided.
• Recruits, hires, supervises, and provides leadership to staff through coaching, guiding, and modeling key behaviours/strategies, encouraging dialogue, and providing guidance and advice to facilitate resolutions to work issues.
• Responsible for developing and recommending a budget; monitoring expenditures; variance analysis; and reporting, recommending, and implementing remedial action.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Liaises with other functional health sectors within IH to ensure Human Resources, Population Health and Pandemic Response strategies address service needs across the continuum of care.
• Actively participates on the Human Resources, Population Health and Pandemic Response leadership team.
• Ensures the ongoing review and evaluation of Human Resources, Population Health and Pandemic Response services.
• Performs data analysis in support of measurement, monitoring, and planning for consistent quality standards across services.
• Develops an awareness and familiarity with issues and events affecting health services.
• Manages projects and initiatives effectively in a multidisciplinary and complex environment using project management principles and methods.
• Collaborates with business support, strategic information, management staff, and medical leadership to assist in reviewing and interpreting statistical information.
• Leads strategies and change processes to engage partners, facilitate discussion, build consensus, and facilitate implementation of Human Resources, Population Health and Pandemic Response objectives across the organization.
• Presents data in a meaningful manner to internal partner groups (including physicians).

Some Of The Benefits Of Joining Interior Health
An attractive remuneration package and excellent career prospects await the right candidate. We offer one of the best benefit packages and pension plans in Canada. In addition to Medical, Dental and Extended Health coverage, we also offer paid annual vacation starting at 4 weeks (20 days) up to a maximum of 7 weeks (35 days). We also offer an attractive defined employee pension plan, disability and life insurance, and options for maternity &/or paternity leave top-up.
Interior Health strives to create an environment where you enjoy the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you. Together, we create great workplaces. Apply today!
Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).