Project Director, Transition Mgmt Office, People

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.

As Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s General Hospital build the “Future of Care” together and a unified new hospital starting in April 2025, they are looking to recruit the digital leadership that will enable the success of a new hospital that delivers innovative care to Ontario’s fastest growing region. More specifically the hospitals are seeking to recruit 3 digital services leaders to make the vision of high quality innovative a reality.

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 Enabling Services Transition - People Services **- approximately until November 30, 2027 at Grand River & St. Mary’s General Hospitals **.**

**How Project Director Enabling Services Transition - People Services support our teams**:
**Project Management**
- Accountable for the planning, submission, integration, execution and post integration management of all assigned transition programs and operations during all phases of the hospital merger
- Development, implementation and ongoing management of an integration playbook for the organization
- Manage all aspects of planning and readiness for the assigned transition program work-stream and accountable for meeting key deliverables
- Manages in collaboration with the TMO team, the overall integration plan and dependencies as they relate to their focus area tracking program risks and issues and meeting with the work-stream on a regular basis to track progress, make decisions and monitor cross functional dependencies.
- In close collaboration with their focus programs, identifies, plans and manages the interdependencies between the integration project and other key strategic initiatives underway within the program
- Applies a future-orientated perspective and innovation mindset to ensure emerging trends, research and evidence are considered in all project activities
- Has accountability for budget management and expenditure authorization.

**Decision Making**
- Works closely with operational leads to ensure robust analysis, appropriate benchmarks and industry best practices are applied to all major integration decisions.
- Leverages external support (contractors, consultants, research firms, etc.) to support integration decision making
- Identifies and interprets both operational and people risks and then to develops and decides on mitigating strategies
- Accountable for identifying, communicating, and mitigating risks to project milestone delivery, and escalates to the Executive Project Director when appropriate
- Responsible for developing plan to realize synergies, including ongoing tracking of integration synergies and costs
- Makes budget allocation decisions such as staff mix, service utilization.

**Program Design**:

- Accountable for all activities and deliverables to ensure the development of a sustainable integrated operational model while ensuring continuity of hospital operations during transition
- Leading and managing all aspects of program and service planning; process improvement and workflow standardization/design/optimization; health human resources and staffing models; enabling technologies and equipment; change management; data evaluation & visualization; patient experience best practice and co-design; and staff training design and delivery
- Maintains and applies expertise in best practice, legislation and compliance to ensure ministry, legislative and accreditation standards are met or exceeded pre
- and post-merger

**Change Management**:

- Adopts a “people first” focus on project and change management both for enterprise change management and people change management aspects of the project

**The Project Director Enabling Services Transition - People Services has**:

- Active member, in good standing with a designation in Human Resources from a professional regulatory body or association - e.g, HRPA, CHRL
- Minimum of 2-5 years of experience leading a hospital human resources department
- Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in healthcare, with demonstrated experience in formal/informal