Director, Strategy

4 months ago

Halifax, Canada IWK Health Centre Full time

**Company** : IWK Health**:
**Req ID**:181212
**Department/Program**:Strategy and Improvement
**Location**: Halifax
**Type of Employment**:Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
**Start Date**: ASAP
**Union Status**: Management
**Compensation**: $56.9529**:

- **$71.1914 /hour
**Closing Date**: Open Until Filled

**_

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

**The Opportunity**:
Reporting to the VP Medicine, Quality & Safety, the Director within the Strategy & Improvement portfolio works closely with the CEO, Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Directors Council, and the Board of Directors to create, deploy, and maintain the organization’s strategic framework. They provide leadership and guidance to help foster a culture of accountability and transparency to support the organization in developing and achieving its strategic objectives.

The Strategy & Improvement portfolio is responsible for leading the development and implementation of IWK Health’s annual strategic plan, and for overseeing the management and delivery of approved business cases and provincial transformation initiatives. The portfolio is also accountable for developing and implementing the organization’s continuous improvement program, including leading and facilitating priority LEAN improvement projects. In addition, the portfolio holds the responsibility for IWK Health’s enterprise risk management (ERM) framework, including its risk and control registers. Working closely with senior leadership, the Director is responsible to create, deploy, and maintain the strategic framework pertaining to Analytics. The incumbent will provide leadership and guidance to help foster a culture of accountability and transparency to support the organization in developing and achieving its strategic objectives.

Performance Analytics is responsible for the strategic and tactical design, implementation and support of performance analytics solutions, projects, and services across the IWK and its key stakeholders. Performance Analytics supports achievement of goals and objectives for strategic management and business intelligence including: optimization of access to, and use of, performance data and analytics to inform health service planning and quality improvement; enablement of evidence-based, data driven decision making and knowledge translation; proactive and responsive performance monitoring and deployment of analytics to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of high quality, safe health services.

The Director oversees formalizing the organization's annual strategic plan and its execution frameworks/processes - Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The Director owns the responsibility of communicating IWK Health’s strategy to all staff and physicians and for translating strategy into action to achieve a culture alignment and accountability. The Director acts as the organization’s OKR lead and works to increase adoption and engagement rates within the framework. The Director owns the annual strategic planning process that shapes and support strategy design and the advancement of strategy execution. They also support facilitation and planning of Board and Executive Leadership Team strategy discussions and events.

Related to enterprise risk management, the Director works with staff and physicians and operational leaders in identifying, assessing, analyzing, and implementing mitigation strategies to mitigate identified organizational risks. The Director is responsible and accountable for the development of the organization’s enterprise risk management program framework and for developing bi-annual reports for the Board of Directors.

The Director also provides vision and leadership to a skilled team of managers, consultants and analysts who are accountable to the delivery of assigned projects and initiatives, including the areas of transformation and continuous improvement.

The Director works in collaboration with the Director, Quality, Patient Safety & Patient Experience and the Director, Health Information Services to promote and support the development of a culture of safety and to identify opportunities and strategies for improvement.

**Hours of Work**:
37.5 hours/week, Monday - Friday

**Your Qualifications**:

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