Project Analyst

**Req ID**:181315**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII**
**Department**:QERD Sr Dir QEII RedevelopmentProject Tm**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%** FTE) x **1** position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:6-Jun-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
The Nova Scotia Healthcare Infrastructure “More, Faster” Initiative is an initiative to realign care and services throughout the Central Zone. The initiative is the largest healthcare infrastructure project to take place in Nova Scotia. This complex, multi-site, multi-phase project, and the active patient care environment within which the work is being delivered, combine to form a high-risk situation, in which effective engagement, well thought-through project management skills and strong leadership skills are necessary to mitigate many types of risk and ensure successful planning for healthcare infrastructure.

The Project Analyst will work alongside project leads, senior leaders, and cross-functional departments to enable coordination, communication and facilitation required to advance the planning of major healthcare infrastructure initiatives within Nova Scotia.

Reporting to the Manager, Planning - Major Healthcare Infrastructure Planning, this role will ensure that standard project management practices, processes and tools are established and applied consistently across all relevant major healthcare infrastructure projects to enable successful planning, coordination, and delivery of initiatives.

This role will have responsibilities including, but not limited to:

- Lead the development and maintenance of best practice project management tools, templates and processes that can be applied across all major healthcare infrastructure projects
- Ensure alignment and coordination between major healthcare infrastructure projects and other organizational priorities
- Establish a standard methodology and process on how work can be electronically populated, shared, reported, and filed with the goal of reducing duplication of effort and improving efficiency and coordination amongst team members
- Liaise with key stakeholders inside and outside of the organization to facilitate seamless communication and coordination between all relevant parties throughout the project life cycle
- Support all aspects of several major healthcare infrastructure planning initiatives, including planning, coordination, co-design, evaluation, and budget tracking
- Prepare and maintain communications, briefings, presentations, reports, and other project documents for internal and external use
- Perform external and internal research and analyses, integrating findings and producing key insights reports to support strategic decision making and enable projects

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Bachelor’s degree in a health-related area, business or equivalent
- 1-3 years’ experience in health care environment or equivalent, working with dynamic teams and coordinating complex, large-scale projects
- Project management experience
- Experience in healthcare planning, healthcare infrastructure planning, or hospital construction projects an asset
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification an asset

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Long-Assignment / Full-Time Position (100%) / 75 Hours Bi-weekly
- Start date as soon as possible, with an anticipated end date of June, 2029.

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$35.27 - $44.09 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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