Executive Director, Centre for Advanced Analytics, Data Science, and Innovation

The Executive Director (ED) of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and Innovation (CAADSI) is innovative, forward-focused, and passionate about large-scale digital transformation and complex change management. As a collaborative, inclusive and visionary leader, the ED leverages innovation, research and technology to transform patient and provider experiences.

Reporting directly to Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer & Vice President, Enterprise Technology, the Executive Director is a clear, caring, and courageous leader who spearheads the development, of a unified data governance strategy. The Executive Director will develop Fraser Health into an insight-driven organization using critically led, patient-powered and digitally enabled artificial intelligence that will be integrated into the clinical workflows across the enterprise.

The Executive Director is innovative, transformational and well informed on leading practices and technology and uses that knowledge to transform patient and provider experiences to deliver exceptional care in a culturally safe, sustainable, and equitable manner. The Executive Director brings forward technological innovations and well-thought-out clinical and business strategies to improve quality and performance, and drive outstanding patient experiences for the diverse populations we serve.

This exciting executive role provides a unique opportunity to create a seamless, digitally-enabled patient and provider experience across multiple platforms, while ensuring all Fraser Health's leaders are equipped with meaningful and timely analytics and information to optimize resource allocation, as well as strategic and operational planning.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Reporting to the Vice President, Digital Patient and Provider Experience, the Executive Director, Centre for Advanced Analytics, Data Science, and Innovation (CAADSI) provides leadership and direction in the review and optimization of business systems, through integrated analytics services providing and interpreting key analytics on the status and standing of clinical and business operations.

Participates in the Senior Leadership Team of the Vice President, Digital Patient and Provider Experience portfolio, plans, implements and evaluates related physical, financial and human resources requirements support of the strategic and operational needs of Fraser Health, participates in the development of the mission, strategies and goals to ensure the optimum delivery of services.

Organizational:

1. Develops and recommends short and long-range goals and objectives for portfolio departments ensuring plans support the goals, policies and vision of Fraser Health.
2. Plans and implements operating and capital budgets for the reporting departments including budget preparation, authorization control and reporting of expenditures ensuring the efficient utilization of the financial resources of the departments within the objectives, plans and budgets established by senior FH Executives. Hold authority to allocate financial resources across departments to best meet portfolio and Fraser Health requirements.
3. Provides senior leadership to all staff across the departments to build motivation to attain goals for the department, portfolio and organization. Develops and recommends organizational structures to reflect the operational needs, the responsibility of each employee and an on-going system for measuring performance.
4. Oversees the recruitment and professional development of employees across the portfolio including responsibility to oversee and, as required, participates in the management of human resource matters for the portfolio of departments.
5. Ensures the planning and implementing of effective quality improvement programs specific to each program area to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction.
6. Ensures effective administrative systems for maintaining, evaluating, and reporting on the operations of the Department including departmental activities and progress on objectives and projects.

Specific Functions:

1. Oversees and leads transformation of systems to effect change and improved results. Collaborates with leaders across FH to ensure effective management and transforms systems to better support operational and strategic objectives. Business process changes have authority wide implications and involve collaboration and consultation to resolve issues and arrive at consensus.
2. Leads and contributes the overall business systems development and process redesign, report development, appropriate documentation and education of all systems development, enhancement and implementation.
3. Provides direction and consultation to the Facilities Management and Public Private Partnership services in the areas of process management and system development.
4. Provides business consultation and advice to senior management as required; plans, prioritizes, and directs numerous concurrent projects through all phases from planning to implementation and evaluation.
5. Represents Fraser Health to government and other parties through participation on committees (such as the BCCSS Customer Services Committee), organizations and in advisory activities, as appropriate.
6. Attends meetings of the Finance and Audit Committee and Board, as required.

Education and Experience

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Health Administration, Health Informatics or related field, plus (10) to fifteen (15) years' of senior system analysis and transformation experience in a large, complex business environment, strategic transformation, multidisciplinary initiatives and project management.

COMPETENCIES:

LEADS Capabilities:
Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge of process review, program evaluation principles and practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, plan, direct, manage and implement change.
• Demonstrated knowledge of health and business administration including strategic and operational planning, monitoring, analytical, evaluation and reporting expertise in a public sector and/or large complex environment.
• Demonstrated ability to direct a variety of cyclical operational, budgeting and financial planning processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain rapport with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to function effectively in a highly dynamic environment with changing priorities.
• Demonstrated judgment and decision-making capabilities including the ability to manage priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka'pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
 
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
 
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health's hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
 
Together, we are the heart of health care.
 
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