Project Director, Clinical Transformation

In April 2024, the Boards of St. Mary’s General and Grand River Hospitals both independently voted in favour of a voluntary merger of the Hospitals to form a new hospital organization. This evolution of our partnership will occur alongside our joint redevelopment work, as we strive to build a new acute care campus in the community. We welcome talent to both St. Mary’s General Hospital and Grand River Hospital that are ready to be part of an exciting, generational change for hospital care in Waterloo Region.

Waterloo Region is uniquely positioned as a place where healthcare, innovation, and research can collaborate to deliver world class care. The hospitals proudly partner with local academic institutions the University of Waterloo, Conestoga College, McMaster University and Wilfrid Laurier University, and our local innovation sector including Communitech, the Accelerator Centre, Medical Innovation Xchange, and others.

We currently have an opportunity for a **temporary full-time **Project Director, Clinical Transformation **- approximately until May 2026, at Grand River & St. Mary’s General Hospitals **.**

**How Project Director, Clinical Transformation support our teams**:
Reporting to the Director of Operations, Transformation, and Community Integration, this role will lead the implementation of complex clinical transformation projects that enhance care capacity and improve patient access across our regional health system. The Project Director will be instrumental in driving initiatives that strengthen GRH’s capacity to meet growing demand for specialized healthcare services. This includes developing and overseeing project plans, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring sustainable, high-quality care delivery that aligns with GRH’s strategic objectives.

**The Project Director, Clinical Transformation brings the following**:

- A Master’s degree in a related field is required
- Registered and in good standing with a clinical regulatory body - e.g, CMLTO, CNO, CRTO is preferred
- Change Management and Project Management or willingness to undertake these certifications
- 5+ years of experience in healthcare project management, with demonstrated success in leading clinical or operational transformation projects.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage stakeholder relationships, and drive complex projects to completion.
- Strong knowledge of healthcare delivery models, including performance measurement, risk management, and quality improvement.
- Demonstrated experience in managing operational functions in large complex organizations including program planning, care and service delivery design, implementation, and evaluation
- Experience leading professional staff, including coaching, fostering consensus decision-making, and creating collaborative, productive team-based work environment for change initiatives to achieve quality patient care
- Demonstrated knowledge of performance measurement, quality improvement and risk management; ability to identify risks, intervene effectively and escalate appropriately
- Excellent consultation, facilitation, negotiation, problem solving, consensus building/team building and collaboration skills with an exhibited ability to gain timely consensus and alignment of multiple impacted and interested parties
- Demonstrated ability to take complex ideas and translate them for teams to drive action, accountability, and consensus
- Effective project management skills, including development of work plans, documentation, project charters, etc.
- An ability to take a system view and understand the complexity and interdependent nature of patient care processes and the impact and implications of decisions on the quality of patient care or service provision and to work within and across multiple complex, rapidly evolving initiatives and understand the interdependencies and how they affect the delivery of the project
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, Accreditation standards, CSA Standards, and other applicable regulations

**Grand River Hospital & St. Mary’s General Hospital support our Team Members with**:

- A thorough onboarding and orientation program
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Access to our Ongoing Education Fund
- Career mentorship
- Wellness programs**APPLICATIONS WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL THE POSTING IS CLOSED.**

Grand River Hospital is committed to fair and equitable employment and in our recruitment and selection practices. We strongly believe in inclusion and diversity within our organization, and welcome all applicants including, but not limited to: racialized communities, all religions and ethnicities, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ persons, Indigenous people, and all others who may contribute to the further diversification of our Hospital community. We are committed to providing and fostering a respectful workplace for all employees, free from violence and harassment. Grand River H