Associate Manager

Your Opportunity:

Cancer Care Alberta is seeking a skilled and visionary leader to join our team as Associate Manager – Radiation Therapy. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to shape the future of cancer care delivery at the state-of-the-art Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre. As Associate Manager, you will provide both clinical and operational leadership to the Radiation Therapy Department, ensuring timely access to care, optimizing workforce models, and driving innovative service delivery. You will lead a multidisciplinary team in alignment with Cancer Care Alberta's strategic goals and commitment to patient- and family-centered care. Reporting to the Manager of Radiation Therapy, your responsibilities will include overseeing daily departmental operations and service coordination, managing human and financial resources effectively, leading contracted service partnerships and external collaborations, identifying and implementing operational improvements to enhance efficiency and quality, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including Radiation Oncology, Medical Physics, Radiation Safety, Research, and Clinical Trials—to ensure integrated and seamless care. This role is ideal for a healthcare leader passionate about advancing radiation therapy services, fostering staff development, and integrating evidence-based practices within a progressive and supportive environment.

Description:

Reporting to the Manager, Radiation Therapy, the Associate Manager, Radiation Therapy at the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre plays a key clinical leadership role in the planning and delivery of Radiation Therapy services. This position is responsible for providing direction, team leadership, and organizational oversight for the Radiation Therapy Department, aligned with the vision, mission, and business plan of Cancer Care Alberta (CCA). The Associate Manager makes department-level and service-specific decisions, in consultation with the Manager when appropriate, and directly leads initiatives that support the goals of the Radiation Therapy Department, Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre, and CCA. The role involves building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. With a focus on quality and safety, the Associate Manager oversees program and discipline-specific supervision, quality improvement, fiscal management, program development, and staff and student education. Additionally, in collaboration with the management team at the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Associate Manager – Radiation Therapy leads projects and daily operations, with accountability across people and change management, operational leadership, resource and risk management, relationship building, and strategic planning.

• Transition Company: Cancer Care Alberta
• Classification: Associate Manager
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Radiation Therapy
• Primary Location: Arthur Child Cancer Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 19-DEC-2025
• Date Available: 05-JAN-2026
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, On Call
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $40.19
• Maximum Salary: $68.93
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Graduate of a recognized health program with a Baccalaureate degree or equivalent required. Current registration with the Alberta College of Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologists (ACMDTT) or alternative health profession registration required.

Additional Required Qualifications:

Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Self-directed and highly motivated. Analytical, organizational, planning, teaching, decision-making, and financial management skills. Positive, creative perspective, high energy to support site and broader provincial initiatives. Demonstrated capability to work within a multidisciplinary team, and to manage with a collaborative and flexible approach. Practical experience in strategic planning, project and program management. Experience and in-depth understanding of health care systems, change management, quality improvement and clinical practice guidelines. Experience with implementing and integrating software systems in a clinical environment. Leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision making responsibilities, coaching and teaching and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Proven ability to foster partnerships and to achieve organizational goals within a diverse organization. Ability to foster a climate of cooperation amongst and build solid relationships with front-line staff, administration, medical leaders, as well as external stakeholder groups.

Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum three (3) years leadership experience with demonstrated clinical competence and knowledge of radiation therapy preferred. Master's level preparation is preferred. Experience with staff management and performance evaluation preferred. Demonstrated proficient budget management and the ability to be process based and result oriented preferred.