Project Director, Home

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $59.56 - $85.62 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
**Project Director, Home & Community Care**

The Executive Director of Seniors, Community and Complex Care is seeking a results-oriented professional with healthcare leadership experience for the **Project Director, Home & Community Care** role to provide overall strategic project planning for the entire portfolio.

The Director is a clear, caring and courageous leader that brings a dynamic approach to planning, implementing, delivering and assessing sustainable projects and initiatives that facilitate transformation and integration across services within the Fraser Health region.

Detailed Overview:
**Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families**:
In alignment with the provincial vision for Home and Community Care and with Fraser Health's strategy and priorities, the Project Director is accountable to provide strategic leadership and consultation in the design, planning, implementation, integration and evaluation of improvement initiatives in the long-term Care system, and other change initiatives within Home and Community Care across Fraser Health owned and operated and contracted sites as assigned.
Accountable to lead all aspects of the project team, the Project Director maintains operational congruence with strategic direction and goals through strategic and operational leadership. Provides project leadership and management to project team; deploys resources among leaders and initiatives; manages work flow/priorities across the project team and others in the organization; develops strategies to ensure deliverables meet key partner needs.
Establishes and maintains strong connections to operational and content experts across Fraser Health functional areas and contracted service providers to ensure that improvement projects are aligned to the provincial vision for Home and Community Care, Fraser Health strategy and priorities, and are within the overall initiative goals.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provides project leadership to project teams responsible for the design, planning, and implementation of capital transformation initiatives aimed at owned & operated and contracted sites within Fraser Health.
- Defines, leads and oversees an overall project delivery approach and methodology throughout the project, including identifying resource needs and gaps, acquiring/hiring staffing resources, formulating plans and activities to support project delivery and the identifications and initiation of appropriate actions including the development of required documents, processes and the project management approach.
- Provides overall leadership, direction and supervision to assigned team members using effective management and leadership techniques including coaching, mentoring, skill and leadership development, performance management and team building. Leads the selection and development of the project team; ensures team members have the knowledge, skills, abilities, and tools to support the identified initiative.
- Liaises with leadership across functional areas in Fraser Health to ensure resources are available and committed to the project and to working groups as needed.
- Works closely with all contracted service providers and Fraser Health owned & operated sites to identify and realize improvement opportunities, including the monitoring of improvement processes to ensure delivery.
- Oversees the collection, review and evaluation of improvement proposals and change requests.
- Utilizes and promotes a system-wide approach to realizing improvement initiatives throughout project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closure. Identifies and manages risks, barriers, issues and scope changes.
- Provides project leadership including making timely business decisions regarding managing initiative budgets, use of resources, variance projection/correction according to the processes/expectations established by Executive Sponsors/Key Partners. Develops and maintains project milestones and reports on project progress and status; ensures alignment of corporate resources to achieve milestones.
- Develops and maintains partnerships with key partners (e.g. VP sponsors; Ministry of Health leaders, Fraser Health Executive, Facilities Management, all Service Providers); establishes and manages contracts with external resources as appropriate.
- Guides and provides insight through leadership to sponsors and project team members. Provides day-to-day support to other senior leaders in all aspects of improvement initiatives.
- Oversees the project team to assure the effectiveness of the approach being used, monitor for roadblocks, and advise or intervene as necessary.
- Develops an annual plan for the project team including service and human resource development components.
- Assesses and reports on the s