Competition # : 46480
Department: Health and Wellness
Location: HALIFAX
Type of Employment: Permanent
Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG
Closing Date: 25-Jul-25 (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, continuing 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

The Strategic Delivery Office (formerly known as the Health Transformation Office) was established in April 2022 to work with and support health system partners to deliver on government's strategic plan: Action for Health. In particular, the office is focused on helping ensure implementation of a set of priority initiatives that are foundational to the transformation of Nova Scotia's healthcare system.
The Strategic Delivery Office is jointly led by Nova Scotia Health and the Department of Health and Wellness (DHW), and works with partners within Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health, Department of Seniors and Long-Term Care (SLTC), Office of Addictions and Mental Health (OAMH), and other related government departments, to coordinate and collaborate across the health system to:

• Support leaders in creating a more ready, reliable, and responsive heath system
• Bring system-wide focus to transformation priorities
• Improve coordination and collaboration across transformation initiatives
• Coordinate resources and funding required for initiative success
• Help ensure system leaders have the capabilities to sustain transformational change
• Ensure change management and leadership is integrated in all efforts
• Coordinate consistent, clear communication about transformation

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Project Executive (Delivery Advisor), is the lead and advisor on strategic initiatives that will help to transform Nova Scotia's healthcare system. These initiatives are priorities outlined in Action for Health, a four-year, system-wide, strategic plan to improve Nova Scotia's health system. The priorities span the continuum of public health, primary healthcare, acute care, surgical, continuing care, mental health and addictions, and emergency health services as well as system wide focus on access and flow, equity, health system workforce, and digital solutions. The Delivery Advisor provides system leadership and strategic advice to plan for and influence a health system shift and support for system leadership capability building, to enable, spread and sustain health transformation benefits for Nova Scotians.

Primary Accountabilities

The Delivery Advisor acts as an advisory support to strategic initiatives; helps to manage and monitor the overall transformation roadmap to facilitate coordinated progress toward system goals. As an Advisor to initiatives, the Delivery Advisor coordinates with initiative leaders and system leaders to monitor and assess initiative progress, reinforcing accountability and setting transformation expectations by maintaining standard reporting and evaluation mechanisms; works closely with initiatives leaders to ensure initiatives remain on track, flag emerging issues within portfolio of initiatives to diagnose and assess risks and develop resolution recommendations or mitigations. This role works with and across leadership teams in the health system and is a critical enabler to strengthening collaboration and trust across partners.

Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidate has experience in a senior level position where they were responsible for moving forward significant pieces of work for their organization. Candidates should have project management skills with an action-oriented approach.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Masters Level Degree completed or presently enrolled to be completed within 2 years in health-related discipline, health administration, business administration or related subject. Equivalent experience and/or alternative education may be considered.
• Minimum of seven years of relevant leadership experience with progressive accountabilities for financial, strategic and people management to deliver high quality services.
• Strong facilitation and relationship building skills.
• Excellent leadership, organizational and decision-making skills.
• Expert knowledge to critically analyse evidence-based practices to inform strategy development and organizational planning.
• Expertise in business planning, strategic planning and systems thinking.
• Evidence-based collaborative problem solving of complex multifaceted issues.
• Understands the principles of project management and demonstrated ability to lead complex work teams.
• Demonstrated advanced interpersonal, communications and team building skills.
• Collaboration, negotiation, and persuasion skills are paramount as this role requires the input of internal and external partners.

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.

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.

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.

Pay Grade: EC 14
Salary Range: $4,550.68 - $5,688.35 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement:

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.

Accommodation Statement:

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Candidates may request accommodations based on any grounds protected by the Human Rights Act. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to [email protected].