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 are committed to continually improving our healthcare system. 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 within the Department of Health and Wellness, the Project Executive is a key member of the leadership team whose mandate is to lead, prioritize and drive initiatives that are focused on increasing the effectiveness of the health system related to physician remuneration. Directly responsible for accountability advancement, Alternate Payment programs and branch Data Analytics, the Project Executive is a key enabler in data driven innovation in this large health portfolio.

Primary Accountabilities

You will provide leadership, direction, guidance and project management for health system investment prioritization, risk planning, and outcome monitoring. You will lead and direct a team that provides evidence-based research, policy analysis, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation support for the development of legislation, provincial policy, standards and guidelines that are responsive to the changing health needs of Nova Scotians and aligned with the overall strategic vision and priorities of the Department. You will also work collaboratively across the Department, government and the health system on key initiatives to advance health system and services, strategy health system planning, health system reporting, performance monitoring and accountability.

Primary accountabilities include:

• Building of relationship and establishment of trust between the Department and stakeholders, ensuring a collaborative, transparent approach to solution development.
• Design, develop and implement accountability frameworks across physician remuneration models through collaborative design approaches.
• Leading a small team, oversee the operational management of alternate funding portfolios including Alternate Payment Plan (Specialty Services), Longitudinal Family Medicine (LFM), First Nations Primary Care delivery and sessional funding arrangements.
• Provide leadership in the advancement of branch level data analytics to support innovation in reporting, visualization and provincial level metric development to enable data informed decision-making.
• Support business process improvement and standardization across the branch to ensure consistency in program execution.
• Act as a primary support to Physician Agreement and Clinical/Academic Funding Plan preparation through the use of quantitative and qualitative analytics aggregated into concise system focused recommendations through presentations, reports and discussion.
  
  

Qualifications and Experience

At minimum you have a Bachelor's Degree in an area such as engineering (particularly industrial engineering) or health analytics, plus several years of progressive, senior-level management and leadership experience in the public/health sector (or an acceptable equivalent). Possession of a Master’s Degree in a complementary area would be an asset.

The successful candidate requires competencies in the management of people which must be demonstrated through formal experience in the management of staff. This position also requires an individual who is experienced in leading large-scale change in a complex stakeholder environment.

Experience working with internal and external stakeholders is required. As a dynamic leader, the successful candidate must possess the ability to lead change, move forward with new initiatives and overcome ongoing challenges.

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

Equivalency

An equivalent combination of training, education and experience will be considered. Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Leadership Assessment - Required Cover Letter Submission

To support the assessment of applicant’s leadership capability, applicants must respond to the following question in their cover letter. Responses should be concise, evidence-based, and clearly demonstrate your leadership role.

• Describe a large-scale change initiative that you personally led in a complex environment, where you used data and analytics to inform decision-making and drive outcomes. Please include:
• The scope and scale (e.g., budget, number of staff/organizations impacted, system-level implications)
• Your leadership role and accountabilities
• How you used data and analytics to define the problem, shape decisions, or measure success
• The process/program changes you designed or implemented
• The most significant risks or resistance and how you managed them
• The measurable and sustained outcomes achieved
  
  

Your example must involve change affecting multiple organizations or a system-level program, rather than a single team or unit.

Benefits

Based on the employment status, 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.
  
  

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.
• A dynamic, client-focused office environment where service excellence and teamwork are our focus.