Project Co-ordinator

**About SickKids**:
Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of _Healthier Children. A Better World_.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world’s best in paediatric healthcare.

**Position Description**:
The Project Coordinator is responsible for a variety of activities that support the strategy and business operations of Perioperative Services at the Hospital for Sick Children. Working with multiple internal and external stakeholders, the incumbent demonstrates a solid understanding of project coordination tasks and will equally be analytical and facile with data.

**Here's What you'll Get To Do**:

- Assists Perioperative Services Leadership with various aspects of projects, such as strategic planning, tracking, monitoring, documenting and reporting
- Maintains timely communication and updates with all project team members, including internal SickKids staff and external stakeholders.
- Assists with organizing & scheduling project meetings and coordinating the schedule of project activities & events.
- Coordinates and maintains logistics required for conducting meetings, workshops & events
- Assists with preparation of presentations
- Responsible to problem solve and escalate issues when appropriate
- Generate data from the Hospital’s EPIC system and organize the data/reports in useful ways that supports the end goal and stakeholder audience
- Ability to co-develop data collection tools and facilitate roll out to stakeholders
- Assist with benchmarking and development of metrics and KPIs to monitor and evaluate projects
- Ability to mine and collect data from various sources and convert into format to facilitate modelling and predictions. Ability to convert into presentation format that is simple, digestible and attractive.
- Ability to address and synthesize multiple data requests in support of various strategic initiatives/projects and bring a global view to these activities to ensure data requests are maximally leveraged and transparently integrated and made available to Perioperative Services Leaders.

**Here's What you'll Need**:

- Master’s trained - degree in science preferable
- Previous experience in project or program coordination considered a key requirement/qualification
- Experience in project coordination activities with complex and large-scale projects an asset
- Well-developed skills and experience with using Microsoft Office products such as Word, Visio, Project and PowerPoint. Master at Excel and pivot tables, graphs etc.
- Experience in, or willingness to learn quickly and become competent in: REDCap, QlikView, SPSS, SAS, iProject, MailChimp, PowerBI
- Advanced organizational, administrative, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
- Superior time management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities/deadlines.
- Strong written and oral communications skills
- Ability to think conceptually, work independently, collaboratively and at an operational level.
- Attention to detail
- Any of the following is considered an asset: hospital experience, completion of data management certificate for clinical research, certificate in project management, LEAN Six Sigma training, proficient in quality improvement methodology, meta-analysis, systematic review, study design, knowledge of REB, quality improvement projects

**Employment Type: Full-Time, Contract - 13 months**

**Our Commitment to Diversity**:
The children and families we care for are from a variety of communities, and so are our employees. We welcome and encourage everyone to join our organization and be part of our team.

Thank you for your interest in joining SickKids. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. In accordance with our Hospital policy, employment at SickKids is conditional upon the Hospital’s receipt of all necessary documentation.

**How to Apply