Team Lead

**Team Lead**:
**Job ID**:

- 233158

**Posting status**:

- Open

**Organization**:

- Ministry of Health

**Division**:

- Strategic Partnerships Division / Ontario Health Teams Policy & Operations Branch

**City**:

- Toronto

**Position(s) language**:

- English

**Job term**:

- 1 Temporary - 12 months with possibility of extension

**Job code**:

- 7A008 - ProgPlanEval07

**Salary**:

- $88,496.00 - $128,625.00 Per year

**Lead, Support, and Innovate with Ontario Health Teams**

Are you someone who takes initiative, who works well within a cross-functional team, and who is comfortable stepping in and stepping up to help solve complex policy and operational challenges? Do you thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments? Do you have experience coaching others to contribute to shared goals? If so, consider this fantastic leadership opportunity with the Ontario Health Teams (OHT) Policy and Operations Branch in the Ministry of Health's Strategic Partnerships Division

The OHT Policy and Operations Branch is responsible for the implementation, support, ongoing operations, and policy development for Ontario Health Teams - Ontario's transformational initiative to build a connected health care system centred around patients, families and caregivers. The branch also supports the Minister of Health's Patient and Family Advisory Council.

We are looking for a motivated professional to lead, coordinate and manage the development, assessment and implementation of health care service delivery and payment models that aim to improve quality and population health in Ontario in a sustainable way.

**About the job**: In this role, you will:

- Provide strategic leadership and oversight on assigned projects and ensure alignment of objectives and recommendations with Ministry's public commitments and senior management direction
- Provide expert advice in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based policies and programs at a system level
- Plan, develop and lead projects from concept to adoption, and establish accountable project management plans
- Provide strategic evidence-based advice, interpretation and options in response to a range of health economic, program, process, outcome and service delivery issues
- Lead the review, development and negotiation of accountability agreements and ensure compliance with terms and conditions
- Prepare, recommend and manage project budgets and estimates, monitor and control expenditures and ensure the authorization of payments within delegated authority

**What you bring to the team**:
**Technical Knowledge and Skills**:

- You have expertise in managing the needs and complex relationships of health care sector stakeholders, including affected populations

**Communication, Relationship Management and Facilitation Skills**: You can:

- respond to issues, provide recommendations and prepare reports
- create, lead and present briefings on complex issues
- work collaboratively to resolve issues, negotiate changes and shifts in priorities
- lead consultations with stakeholders to ensure shared understanding and collaborative problem-solving

**Project Management and Leadership**: You can:

- champion project management approaches, coach staff and provide expert advice to management and clients on performance improvement
- effectively complete project deliverables from initial concept through completion
- support change by seeking out new ideas, developing innovations, conducting risk assessments and creating strategic solutions

**Issues Management**: You are able to:

- seek out and effectively analyze information to understand key business issues to identify potential solutions that could impact our business
- facilitate resolution of contentious issues working collaboratively with stakeholders and with a view to equity, diversity, and inclusion

**Research, Evaluation and Analytical Skills**: You can:

- demonstrate sound judgment, sensitivity and a high degree of political acuity implementation
- conduct independent research and analysis according to accepted methods to prepare briefing notes, backgrounders, literature reviews, and environmental scans

**How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility**: We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's _Human Rights Code_ and the _Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005._ We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring proces