Director - Cancer Care Excellence

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The Director, Cancer Care Performance Excellence is a key leadership role responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving a provincial performance management framework that supports strategic decision-making and drives improvement across Cancer Care Alberta (CCA). This includes creating evidence-informed processes to ensure performance excellence and advising senior leadership on strategic goals and areas requiring intervention. The Director collaborates with stakeholders across the cancer ecosystem to plan and implement initiatives that enhance patient care and system performance, ensuring alignment with CCA’s strategic and operational plans.

The role requires fostering strong relationships with senior leaders (Managing Director, Senior Provincial Leads, Senior Medical Directors, Executive Directors) and diverse stakeholders, including patient and family partners. Success demands exceptional communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills, as well as the ability to lead executive-level meetings, committees, and working groups to address complex health system challenges, set priorities, and develop robust reporting and evaluation frameworks.

The position requires expertise in balancing diverse stakeholder interests, overseeing operational, project, and grant budgets, and ensuring alignment with approved plans. Leadership experience, deep health system knowledge, strategic vision, political acumen, superior writing and communication skills, and strong people leadership capabilities are essential.

Description:

The Director, Cancer Care Performance Excellence is a key leadership role responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving a provincial performance management framework that supports strategic decision-making and drives improvement across Cancer Care Alberta (CCA). This includes creating evidence-informed processes to ensure performance excellence and advising senior leadership on strategic goals and areas requiring intervention. The Director collaborates with stakeholders across the cancer ecosystem to plan and implement initiatives that enhance patient care and system performance, ensuring alignment with CCA’s strategic and operational plans.

The role requires fostering strong relationships with senior leaders (Managing Director, Senior Provincial Leads, Senior Medical Directors, Executive Directors) and diverse stakeholders, including patient and family partners. Success demands exceptional communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills, as well as the ability to lead executive-level meetings, committees, and working groups to address complex health system challenges, set priorities, and develop robust reporting and evaluation frameworks.

The position requires expertise in balancing diverse stakeholder interests, overseeing operational, project, and grant budgets, and ensuring alignment with approved plans. Leadership experience, deep health system knowledge, strategic vision, political acumen, superior writing and communication skills, and strong people leadership capabilities are essential.

Understands the complexities and inter-relationships across sectors within the Alberta health care system. This understanding is key to identifying barriers, challenges and opportunities across the system. Very detail-oriented, thorough, accurate. Proven abilities in negotiation, facilitation, conflict resolution, and project management are required. Demonstrated ability to lead change and influence decision-making through the synthesis and interpretation of data. Experience in developing strong working relationships and partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders.

Demonstrated ability to quickly build trust and effective working relationships. Inspires and motivates a team of people who don’t report directly to them. Ability to deal with highly complex or sensitive issues in a professional manner. Ability to relay or explain complex issues or difficult situations. Skills in negotiation, facilitation and conflict resolution are required. Proven abilities in complex problem solving, concerns resolution, investigation, and negotiation.

Ability to identify risk potential of projects and initiatives throughout the breadth and depth of AHS and bring these to attention of senior leaders. Ability to put forward effective mitigation strategies for such risks. Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with senior leaders by presenting detailed plans, complex analyses, methods and findings in brief forms and user-friendly language.

Graduate level training or formal training in quality improvement, project management or business management. Diversity of experience and education maybe considered.