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As Director, Planning and Implementation, you will lead health system strategies that respond to regional needs and advance integrated, equitable care. Reporting to the Vice President, System Strategy, Planning, Design and Implementation, you will turn strategic priorities into achievable program plans and oversee their implementation and evaluation.
Lead a cross-functional team and collaborate with regional and provincial partners across health sectors to close system gaps, strengthen coordination and deliver results. You will be accountable for your portfolio’s planning, team performance, and day-to-day program operations.
This regional role supports the health care needs and priorities of the North East Region.
Here is what you will be doing:
- Drive regional strategy: Assess health care needs, set priorities and lead integrated planning, implementation and evaluation aligned with provincial and regional strategies and Ontario Health’s Strategic Plan and Annual Business Plan.
- Turn evidence into action: Work with regional colleagues to identify data sources and analysis that inform decisions, strengthen planning, and improve performance. Embed health equity principles and priorities throughout planning processes.
- Build partnerships across sectors: Establish committees and communities of practice, engage internal and external partners, and connect regional and provincial teams to address system barriers, resource needs and accountability gaps.
- Advance integration and innovation: Represent the portfolio on regional committees and other collaborative bodies, champion best practices and integrated care models, and recommend program improvements and funding allocation priorities informed by emerging health system issues.
- Lead people and operations: Guide and manage staff, oversee day-to-day program operations, and ensure work follows accepted best practices, government and ministry directives, and regional policies and procedures.
- Deliver measurable results: Establish regional goals and implement initiatives to achieve them. Monitor, evaluate, and report on activities against performance objectives set by the CRO.
Here is what you will need to be successful:
Education and Experience
- Master’s degree in health or business administration, or equivalent education/experience.
- 7 years of work experience in the public or private health care sector.
- 5 years of experience leading or managing teams directly or indirectly, using relationship-building and management skills, with a solid background in managing staff to achieve corporate objectives.
- Solid background in integrating large, complex initiatives in a changing environment, with advanced project management skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
Knowledge and Skills
- Business acumen: Apply business principles and systems thinking in health care, including financial and human resource management, organizational dynamics and governance, strategic planning, risk management and quality improvement.
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship management: Develop networks, alliances and multiple external collaborative relationships that support department performance. Collaborate across functions and boundaries, find common ground with an expanding range of stakeholders, identify key issues, and accommodate key players’ needs on joint projects with external parties or units.
- Communication and interpersonal skills: Highly developed verbal and written communication skills to provide and obtain complex, technical or sensitive information effectively, clearly, concisely and logically, at an appropriate level and in an appropriate format. Prepare and deliver presentations on technical and/or sensitive information to diverse audiences. Listen well, encourage open communication, and respond appropriately to others’ needs, feelings and capabilities with tact, compassion, sensitivity, and respect.
- Judgement and negotiation: Exercise sound judgement on sensitive and contentious issues and negotiate consensus on complex policy strategies.
- Strategic planning and risk management: Align department tasks and objectives with corporate goals, establish clear targets and measures to track progress, evaluate outcomes and adjust direction as appropriate.
- Change management: Actively embrace change initiatives to improve department performance and use varied methods to help employees respond positively to change.
- Health care planning and system design: Expert knowledge of planning models and approaches, with an understanding of the health care system and environment. Scan for ideas, best practices and system-wide trends, and effectively select options, plan, implement and evaluate health care policies and/or programs.
- Program development and innovation: Develop new insights and apply innovative solutions to improve the organization. Foster creative thinking and innovation, and design and implement new or cutting-edge programs and processes.
- Health sector and community knowledge: Knowledge of Ontario’s health sector and workforce trends; in-depth knowledge of local health issues, priorities and needs in the context of broader health care policy and system development trends; and knowledge of the needs of Indigenous peoples in urban and community settings and Francophone communities.
Location: Northern, Ontario
Employment Type:
Permanent Full time
Contract Length:
N/A
Salary Band:
Band 9
External Application Deadline Date:
November 10, 2026
All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.
