Project Executive

**Competition #**: 43192

**Department**: Health and Wellness

**Location**: HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**: Permanent

**Union Status**: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

**Closing Date**: 04-Jul-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we're committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.

About Our Opportunity

Reporting to the Executive Director, Benefit Programs, the Project Executive works with senior leaders across the department and the health care system to provide leadership in the design, strategic planning, implementation, integration and evaluation of publicly funded pharmacy-based primary care services within the health care system.

Primary Accountabilities

**Key responsibilities include**:
Provides strategic leadership and drives innovation to advance initiatives that optimize the integration of community pharmacy practice in the broader primary care health system and to advance the goals of Action for Health
Establishes frameworks based on evidence and best practice, and collaboration with partners, to guide recommendations and decisions about government investment in community pharmacy and primary health care
Provides strategic input, oversight and evaluation support for innovative practices such as pharmacy primary care clinics and other demonstration projects
Maintains close working relationship with other branches of DHW including Public Health, System Integration, Primary Care, Physician Services, Office of Health Professional Recruitment, and Nova Scotia Health to ensure alignment and integration across system planning and priorities
Develops policies, monitoring and evaluation strategies related to pharmacy services and the Pharmacy Services Agreement
Maintains effective and positive working relationships with external stakeholders including Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists, Dalhousie School of Pharmacy, and other organizations
Responsible for budget oversight and forecasting for pharmacy services and other related investments
Provides direction and oversight to staff and Pharmacare program administrator to support analytics and successful implementation of insured services and audit practices

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelors or Masters degree in a related field and several years of health system leadership experience.

Must have significant experience in the health care system in Canada and appreciation of the vision of the health care system in Nova Scotia.

Excellent strategic thinking, interpersonal, diplomacy, communication, and organizational and team building skills.

Please follow LEADS (novascotia.ca) for more information.

We will assess the above qualifications and capabilities using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.

Equivalency

**Benefits**:
The Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees.

Working Conditions

Normal work week is 35 hours/week, 7 hours/day
May be required to work overtime on occasion

Additional Information
What We Offer

Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
**Engaging workplace**: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
Countless career paths
Department specific flexible working schedules

**Pay Grade**: EC 14

**Salary Range**: $4,461.45 - $5,576.81 Bi-Weekly

**Employment Equity Statement**:
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